One of the joys of singing in a university choir is the exhilaration of discovering new musical worlds. Such a sense strongly pervades this latest offering from The Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne under its director Christopher Watson. 

Tackling polyphony born of the religious turbulence of 16th-century England, the youthful choristers sing works ranging from the relative simplicity of John Sheppard’s Our Father through to the exuberance of his Jesu salvator saeculi redemptis and John Taverner’s Mater Christi Sanctissima by way of Christopher Tye’s Missa Euge Bone. They do so with a free, unforced tone that is warmly embraced by the college chapel’s gently resonant acoustic.

Anchored by strong soprano and bass lines, the choir clearly takes delight in its musical challenges, creating radiance especially in the final verse of Jesu salvator and towards the end of Mater Christi. 

While there is admirable cohesion and clarity in the Our Father, occasionally there are other...