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Not the Live 1994 Palestrina 400 concert in Rome, but the 1980 Merton College recording. Then as now, the chaste 'finish' of the Allegri is overshadowed by a compellingly contoured Missa Papae... —
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Taverner: Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas & Magnificats
RecommendedRecorded to celebrate The Tallis Scholars’ 40th Anniversary on 3 November 2013
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
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... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th December 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Early Music
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This is glorious music. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st October 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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For the 1985 quatercentenary of Tallis's death, Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars produced this version of Spem in alium; in many respects it's clearly the most successful ever recorded.... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, October 2005, Highly Recommended
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Cornysh's music is a riot of abundant, often seemingly wild melody, constantly in search of wanton, abstract, dare-devil ideas. Take, for example, the extraordinary conclusion to the five-part... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Josquin des Prés: Missa mater Patris & Noel Bauldeweyn: Missa Da pacem
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
The Scholars take [the Missa Mater Patris] at an aptly reverential tread, capturing its introspective – at times hypnotic – qualities…The Scholars realise [the Bauldeweyn] with all the precision,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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This, the third volume of the survey by The Tallis Scholars of the music of the Tudor composer, Thomas Tallis, contains the well-known Lamentations, eight motets, and the extended motet Salve... —
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Stripping down the number of voices in Pärt has palpable benefits...Not that there's any sense of power missing: in the tutti of the Magnificat, the crescendos are ringing, and again one notes... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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The Tallis Scholars produce a distilled, transparent sound and the spiritual tone of their performance is one of serene contemplation through which the Requiem's ecstatic 'external light' shines. —
