Based on a major new discovery, this recording features the complete setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah for Good Friday by Antoine Brumel, one of the most celebrated composers of the Renaissance. Brumel‘s Lamentations have been known, performed, and recorded for many years in a much abbreviated form of two verses and the refrain, „Ierusalem convertere“. The additional seventeen verses, which were found hiding in plain sight in a sixteenth-century manuscript by Musica Secreta‘s co-director Laurie Stras, reveal a monumental setting that is both intricate in its detail and imposing in its formal construction, a masterpiece broughtfrom darkness into light. The second half of the disc focusses on another manuscript, compiled for a convent, with gems by Josquin des Prez and Loyset Compère sitting alongside the anonymous beauty of works that decorated the nuns‘ worship troughoutthe year.