TONUS PEREGRINUS was founded by composer Antony Pitts in 1990 at New College, Oxford, to record Music for a Large Audience, and has a significant discography and reputation for excellence and originality, including Alpha and Omega (Studio Master) and The Naxos Book of Carols. Acclaim in the BBC Music Magazine, Fanfare, Gramophone, and The Telegraph speaks for itself: “utterly spellbinding”, “heatedly recommended”, “utterly beguiling”, “gloriously sung by this superb choir”, as does the prestigious Cannes Classical Award for the ensemble’s debut release and No.1 album of Part: Passio – “Editor’s Choice” in Gramophone, as was the Hyperion album Antony Pitts: Seven Letters & Other Sacred Music. TONUS PEREGRINUS's series of “milestones of Western Music” for Naxos includes the first polyphony and music in four parts, Leonin / Perotin: Sacred Music From Notre-Dame Cathedral; the first-ever opera or musical comedy, Adam De La Halle: Jeu De Robin Et De Marion (Le); the first polyphonic settings of the Mass and the Passion, Mass of Tournai / St. Luke Passion; the first new "sweet harmony" of the Renaissance, Dunstable: Quam Pulchra Es / Veni Sancte Spiritus / Mass Movements; a re-invention of the first English hymnbook from 1623, Gibbons: Hymnes and Songs of the Church, and the jewel in the crown, Music from The Eton Choirbook. Three decades of Old Masters (Vol. 2) on, our founding vision is as strong as ever: authentic & original.