[AnAmericanMother]

Best all round surveys I've found are a couple of albums by John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers - Flora gave me fairest flowers and Olde English Madrigals. He's got some others out - his group has a very spare, clear sound that lets you hear each part.

The Baltimore Consort does a lot of madrigals, but I don't care for their sound, which is loose, heavy on the vibrato and thicker, if that makes any sense.

You could listen to the snippets on amazon to see which style you prefer. I'm thoroughly in the traditional English camp, and that's not to everybody's liking.

Actually, our choirmaster tells us that the Elizabethans probably sounded like old-fashioned Appalachian mountain singers - very nasal and forward, with no vibrato at all. Don't think anybody could stand that these days (but when we sing the really early stuff, like Josquin and Ockeghem, we can get away with it.)

[Chickensoup]

I think Rutter is the best!