When this recording was released in 1980, it was justly hailed as one of the most sumptuously beautiful and gloriously spiritual recordings ever made. It was the first disc by Peter Philips and the Tallis Scholars -- a crackerjack English a cappella choir of 21 voices -- and in a single stroke it swept away decades of desiccated and etiolated ...
When you see a title like The Tallis Scholars Sing Thomas Tallis, you know the music's going to be right, sort of like when you hear Aretha Franklin sing in Detroit, or hear an oversize band of Central Europeans play Mahler. And so it is. This disc compiles Tallis Scholars recordings from 1985, 1986, 1992, and 1998 for the purpose of, per the ...
Made in the mid-'80s, these recordings helped establish the reputation of the small, mixed-gender Tallis Scholars as one of the premier vocal ensembles specializing in the unaccompanied choral music of the Renaissance. They are devoted mostly to Josquin's masses, with just two delicious examples, one of them the famed Ave maria...virgo serena, of ...
The Tallis Scholars have done a lot to keep Palestrina's star up there in the firmament during a wild, sensual age that generally has preferred wilder, more sensual music from the late Renaissance. By their count, they have performed the famed Missa Papae Marcelli (Pope Marcellus Mass) alone 75 times since first programming it in 1977. The group's ...
Allegri's Miserere is most famous as the piece, which, by papal decree, could be performed only in the Sistine Chapel, but which the 14-year-old Mozart transcribed from memory after hearing it, according to his father. Peter Philips, the director of the mixed ensemble the Tallis Scholars, wrote in the program notes that the Miserere was performed ...
To celebrate their 25th anniversary, sacred music specialists the Tallis Scholars re-released on their own Gimell label a disc that has been a cipher in their catalog for a long time, English Madrigals, recorded in 1982 for EMI's Classics for Pleasure imprint and unavailable for so long as to be virtually forgotten. It is heartening to see the ...
This disc, abstracted from a three-hour British television program about William Byrd, wasn't specifically intended as an introduction to the Elizabethan composer's sacred music, but it could serve very well indeed as one. Here England's superb Tallis Scholars and their director Peter Phillips focus their considerable powers on a single goal: the ...
Familiar Renaissance compositions of the sixteenth century tend to unfold in clear sections corresponding to units of text: the poetry of an English madrigal, the lines of a Marian motet by Josquin are reflected by distinctively shaped musical clauses, marked off by a series of imitative voice entrances or some other device. This marriage of music ...
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