The Peñalosa-Ensemble is an a cappella quartet consisting of four absolutely experts for the early vocal music: the German singers Susan Eitrich, Sebastian Mory, Jörg Deutschewitz und Pierre Funck. The CD presents a cappella works by Hans Leo Hassler (1564–1612) for advent and Christmas. The selected works, which cover the entire gamut of Hassler’s productivity with respect to different compositional types and genres, profit greatly from the clear performance by the solo mold of the Peñalosa quartet.