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Choral » Anthems & Motets
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Winner - Early Music
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Everywhere [Skinner] negotiates an ear-opening path through the changing shapes and densities of Tallis’s ever-fluid formulations; the polyphony is delineated with laser-sharp precision, and... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Concerto Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Recording of the Month
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Vocal/Choral
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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. —
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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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[In Spem in alium] Parrott's sure touch tells in the form: the first entry is clear and confident...the first Mexican wave spreads inexorably, the arrival on the second tutti rings out like... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection Recommendation
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Building a Library, October 2016, First Choice
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Special offer. Tallis: Gaude gloriosa, Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, and Motets from Cantiones Sacrae (1575)
Choir of New College, Oxford, Edward Higginbottom
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Special offer. Thomas Tallis’s Secret Garden
RecommendedSacred music in Latin
Ensemble européen William Byrd, Graham O'Reilly
The voices are pure and glide peacefully amongst each other. The balance is excellent and the recording captures the warmth of the acoustic as well as the clarity of the singers’ voices superbly. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th December 2009
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The illuminating insert-notes place Mary's short reign within the bewilderingly stormy context of the 16th century with a calm understanding that enables the listener to see how this Latin music... —
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the consort’s blend is natural rather than rigidly smooth, with beautiful transparency from the altos, a sonorous bass-line and a steady, secure pulse. The impression is of wandering through... —
