Special offer. Tallis: Choral Works
The Gentlemen of HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace, Carl Jackson
The 14-strong, all-male ensemble gives fervent and full-bodied performances, its ripe, plangent timbre coloured by the occasional use of vibrato – most notably in the plainchant intonations…The...
Special offer. Tallis: Choral Works
The Gentlemen of HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace, Carl Jackson
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The 14-strong, all-male ensemble gives fervent and full-bodied performances, its ripe, plangent timbre coloured by the occasional use of vibrato – most notably in the plainchant intonations…The...
About
The Gentlemen of HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace and their director Carl Jackson make their Resonus Classics debut with this album of works for lower voices by Thomas Tallis – himself a Gentleman of the Tudor Chapel Royal serving under four monarchs. Recorded in the impressive surroundings of the Chapel Royal where the choir are resident, this first disc with the ensemble presents works for four and seven voices including a reconstruction of Tallis’s Missa Puer natus est nobis based on chant for Christmas Day, and the sumptuousSuscipe quaeso Domine.
Contents and tracklist
- The Gentlemen of HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace
- Carl Jackson
- The Gentlemen of HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace
- Carl Jackson
- The Gentlemen of HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace
- Carl Jackson
- The Gentlemen of HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace
- Carl Jackson
- The Gentlemen of HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace
- Carl Jackson
- The Gentlemen of HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace
- Carl Jackson
- The Gentlemen of HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace
- Carl Jackson
Awards and reviews
March 2019
The 14-strong, all-male ensemble gives fervent and full-bodied performances, its ripe, plangent timbre coloured by the occasional use of vibrato – most notably in the plainchant intonations…The recording in the palace’s resonant chapel, is sumptuous and detailed.
