Each CD can be listened to as an entity in itself, each disc having been organised according to the topics discussed by Jérôme Lejeune in his introduction: the music of the Lutheran, Calvinist and Anglican Reformations, the music of the Renaissance in Scandinavia and the Low Countries as well as the music of the Counter-Reformation and its development in Italy, France and Germany during the 17th century. Music from Germany by J.S. Bach and his contemporaries forms a natural conclusion to this collection.