This is the first ever complete published edition of a major madrigal collection that is essential to our understanding of the fruitful interaction of Renaissance Italian and English music.

In four, five and six voices, the 57 pieces of Musica Transalpina include 51 madrigals by Marenzio, Palestrina and others, the two parts of Byrd’s ‘La virginella’, and four French chansons. Uniquely, the anthology also features singing translations of the original poems from the Italian into the vernacular...