Shrouded in mystery, the works of Vicente Lusitano (c.1520–c.1561), a Portuguese composer, priest, and highly influential music theorist, were created against all odds during a lifetime of musical, social, and religious upheaval. He was at first highly revered and then later slandered for his music-theory writings, faced limiting prejudices due to his racialised identity, and then controversially converted to Protestantism and disappeared from records.

Only a fraction of his creative outpourings remain to us today to offer a glimpse into his inner world - one of richness, contemplation, and mellifluousness.

Sadler & Conrad's careful arrangements of vocal works by Lusitano and his contemporaries for renaissance traversos with lute examine the ways in which he lingered in thresholds in his career, identity, and music, beginning to unveil a musical - and above all human - legacy encoded in complex layers of polyphony.

Music by Vicente Lusitano, Josquin Des Prez, Pedro de Escobar, Juan del Encina, and others.