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Western Wind
Music By John Taverner & Court Music For Henry VIII
Emily Van Evera (soprano), Charles Daniels (tenor)
Taverner Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Early Music
The Western Wynde Mass nicely contrasts with The Tallis Scholars’ recording, being incisive and brisk where Peter Phillips’s reading is smoother and more leisurely. Parrott is perhaps more persuasive...
Western Wind
Music By John Taverner & Court Music For Henry VIII
Emily Van Evera (soprano), Charles Daniels (tenor)
Taverner Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott
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Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
-
Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Early Music
The Western Wynde Mass nicely contrasts with The Tallis Scholars’ recording, being incisive and brisk where Peter Phillips’s reading is smoother and more leisurely. Parrott is perhaps more persuasive...
About
Andrew Parrott and his Taverner Choir & Players turn to music of their namesake alongside works by his contemporaneous King Henry VIII, an exceptionally musical monarch, and two composers of the previous generation, William Cornysh and Hugh Ashton.
With Taverner's Western wind mass as its corner-stone, this recording takes its lead from the unashamedly secular character of that work and ventures beyond the chapel door to explore the parallel world of courtly vernacular song and instrumental music.
Contents and tracklist
- Uri Smilansky
- Taverner Choir, Taverner Players
- Taverner Choir, Taverner Players
- Andrew Parrott
- Taverner Choir, Taverner Players
- Andrew Parrott
- Steven Devine
- Taverner Choir, Taverner Players
- Taverner Choir, Taverner Players
- Andrew Parrott
- Taverner Consort
- Taverner Choir, Taverner Players
- Andrew Parrott
- Charles Daniels
- Taverner Choir
- Andrew Parrott
- Taverner Choir, Taverner Players
- Andrew Parrott
- Taverner Choir, Taverner Players
- Andrew Parrott
- Emily van Evera, Charles Daniels
- Taverner Choir, Taverner Players
- Emily van Evera, Charles Daniels, Robert MacDonald
- Taverner Choir, Taverner Players
- Steven Devine
- Taverner Choir, Taverner Players
- Emily van Evera
- Taverner Players
- Andrew Parrott
- Taverner Players, Taverner Choir
- Andrew Parrott
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineMay 2016Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2016
May 2016
The Western Wynde Mass nicely contrasts with The Tallis Scholars’ recording, being incisive and brisk where Peter Phillips’s reading is smoother and more leisurely. Parrott is perhaps more persuasive in conveying its pacing...the sound recording successively juggles a wide range of distributions, from harpsichord to choir, with no apparent discontinuity.
3rd July 2016
Two English choral masterpieces, superbly sung.
San Francisco Chronicle 22nd June 2016
Taverner was evidently the first Englishman to use secular music as a liturgical source, and it gives the piece a breezy, buoyant quality that comes through here with fetching immediacy.
