Is there anything better?

Is there anything better than sacred vocal music from the early Renaissance? I’ve got the Tallis Scholars doing the Victoria Requiem, and next in the queue is the Trio Medieval doing a variety of stuff in the same style. There’s an absolute purity in the use of the primary intervals. Combined with the lack of overtrained and ostentatious vibrato…it’s like they’re painting with overtones.

It’s music like this that gives me the belief that beauty exists in the world, rather than simply in the eye of the beholder.