THE ESSENTIAL TALLIS SCHOLARS: I’m listening to this cd now, and it is fantastic. If it weren’t nine minutes long I’d put the first track, Gregorio Allegri’s “Miserere,” on every mix I ever make for anyone. That shivering soprano gives it a science-fictiony, interstellar sound–a theremin-y thing maybe?–how repentance would sound in outer space. (…That’s a compliment, yeah.) Just really great stuff.