Taverner: Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas & Magnificats: Recorded to celebrate The Tallis Scholars’ 40th Anniversary on 3 November 2013

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This performance is characterised by the Scholars' precision and sheer beauty of sound. The stratospheric treble line (sung here by female voices) dominates the texture...but the lingering effect... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 4th Nov 2013
Catalogue No: CDGIM045
Label: Gimell
Length: 78 minutes

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Taverner: Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas

Work length41:18

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The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips

I. Gloria

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II. Credo

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III. Sanctus and Benedictus

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IV. Agnus Dei

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Taverner: Magnificat a 4

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Peter Phillips

Taverner: Magnificat a 5

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The Tallis Scholars
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Taverner: Magnificat a 6

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The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips

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Recording of the Week, The Tallis Scholars sing John Taverner's Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas

16th December 2013

The British vocal ensemble mark their fortieth anniversary with ‘a full-blooded forty-five-minute epic that Phillips compares favourably to a Britten opera or an Elgar symphony’.

‘I chose to celebrate our 40th anniversary with Taverner’s Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas because I believe it to be one of the greatest compositions ever to have been written in England – a perfect ambassador for the repertoire we have made our own. It is also spectacularly difficult to sing, requiring a very high degree of expertise from its performers. I felt there was no better piece to show-case what The Tallis Scholars have achieved in their 40 years of dedication to polyphony: a summation of Taverner’s art as well as our own.’ Peter Phillips

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Christmas Issue 2013

This performance is characterised by the Scholars' precision and sheer beauty of sound. The stratospheric treble line (sung here by female voices) dominates the texture...but the lingering effect is seraphic.

November 2013

Almost 30 years after their earlier recording of the work, Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars return to what has to count as the most gorgeous of all early Tudor Masses. There are plenty of reasons to do so. Not just the technical improvements of the years but also Phillips's own evolution as a conductor.

4th November 2013

This is an exceptionally fine disc. The music itself is compellingly interesting and Peter Phillips and his marvellously disciplined singers bring the music to life in a most exciting way, This is virtuoso music and The Tallis Scholars are equal to every challenge posed by the composer.

16th December 2013

After forty years of consistent excellence, you won’t be surprised to hear that the Tallis Scholars’ sound on this disc is top-notch. The tuttis are rich, belying Phillips’s small forces, and the contrasted two- and three-part sections are fluid and light without sounding thin. The combination of male and female voices on the alto parts offers the best of both worlds.

3rd November 2013

It is fascinating to retrace those words as they unfold here, with their uncanny power and a magical translucency lent by the Scholars to all the items. Their approach is both svelte and sublime. An almost tangible compactness of polyphony, however soaring, is allied to impeccable, “white” purity of sound, with ecstatic results.

3rd November 2013

The mass, in six parts, makes huge demands on the singers – all in effect having to behave as soloists – and the emphasis as ever with the Tallis Scholars, is on clarity, precision, continuity of line.

22nd November 2013

Here are 41 minutes of luxurious, intricate six-part vocal writing, topped by two sopranos, flying the extremities of their range with a security, purity and silvery gleam that is absolutely breathtaking. Can these people, Janet Coxwell and Amy Haworth, really be human?

Early Music Today

This interpretation of the Mass crackles with festive energy, evoking seraphic praise and eternal mystery as required…Here is a treasury of exquisite craft, especially in quieter passages and whenever the scoring is reduced, with Taverner’s brilliant filigree of invention always sensitively gilded with musical intelligence.

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Recording of the Week, The Tallis Scholars sing John Taverner's Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas

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