Tallis - Spem in alium
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Choral » Anthems & Motets
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The instruments transfigure much of this music. They do the heavy lifting for some of the choir parts in the Mass and Ecce beatum lucem, contribute to the spacious sonorities, and add delicate... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th March 2011
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Early Music
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Building a Library, October 2016, Recommended version with mixed voices and instruments
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2011
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Special offer. Tallis: Spem in alium
& other sacred music
Robert Rice (baritone), Robert Evans (bass)
The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood
Carwood moulds the structures to great effect, with wide ranging dynamics from hushed groupings of eight voices to the full force. —
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Spem is literally a surround-sound piece, so this recording, the first to use the latest technology in new audio formats, gets closer than most. The Sixteen (enlarged to the requisite 40) have... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection Recommendation
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2003, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, October 2016, Recommended Version in English
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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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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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Special offer. Tallis: Latin Church Music
RecommendedTaverner Consort & Taverner Choir, Andrew Parrott
[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, July 2026, Collection Recommendation
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Building a Library, October 2016, First Choice
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Tallis: Spem in Alium
and other choral works
Winchester Cathedral Choir, Winchester College Quiristers, Vocal Arts Chorus, David Hill
A characterful acoustic, a spatially defined sound recording and treble-singing of a fine standard combine in an impressive conclusion [to Spem in alium] —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection Recommendation
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Building a Library, October 2016, Historic Choice
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This is quite simply the best performance of Tallis's 40-part Spem in alium to date. Sung by a constellation of singers, many of them familiar names from other wellestablished choral groups,... —
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Building a Library, October 2004, First Choice
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Special offer. Michel Tippett - Historic Recordings from the 1940's
Phyllis Sellick, Zorian Quartet, Morley College Choir, Walter Goehr, Sir Michael Tippett
