The Essential Tallis Scholars
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Composer: Gregorio AllegriComposer: Tomas Luis de Victoria
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Composer: Josquin Desprez
Composer: Thomas Crecquillon
Composer: Jacobus Clemens Non Papa
Composer: Heinrich Isaac
Composer: Cipriano de Rore
Composer: Orlande de Lassus
Composer: Antoine Brumel
Composer: John [Composer] Sheppard
Composer: Thomas [Composer] Tallis
Composer: Robert White
Composer: William Cornysh
Composer: William [Composer] Byrd
Performer: The Tallis Scholars
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2003-09-09
Music Label: Gimell UK
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Miserere
- Ave Maria For Double Choir
- Sicut Lilium I
- Praeter Rerum Seriem
- Pater Peccavi
- Ego Flos Campi
- Tota Pulchra Es
- Descendi In Hortum Meum
- Alma Redemptoris Mater
- Salve Regina
- Ave Regina Caelorum
- Gloria
- Media Vita
- In Manus Tuas
- O Nata Lux
- Audivi Vocem
- Exaudiat Te Dominus
- Ah, Robin
- Salve Regina
- Kyrie
- Gloria
- Credo
- Sanctus
- Agnus Dei
Music reviews of The Essential Tallis Scholars
Music Review: a voice teacher and early music fan
Rating: 5 Stars
COMPILATION OF THE TALLIS SCHOLARS FROM 1980 TO 1998.
The pieces on these two discs are taken from over fifteen years of recording by the Tallis Scholars, startng with the now-famous recording of Allegri's 'Miserere' from 1980. Allegri lived well into the Baroque era, dying in 1562. Therefore, he did not write the 'Miserere' in renaissance polyphony, and his chordal structure leaned toward the Baroque.
Victoria's 8-part 'Ave Maria' and Palestrina's 'Sicut lilium' are both pieces ln a contemplative mood, the first making direct reference to the Virgin Mary, and the second indirect reference to her via the poetry of the 'Song of Songs'. The remaining selections on Disc one maintain the consistent, intense sonority of Flemish polyphony.
Disc two falls into two parts. The pieces by Sheppard, Tallis,White and Cornysh come from the first half of the sixteenth century and are part of the 'English School' of writing. Here the music is made up of long lines, more notes than syllables, with the emphasis on the part-writing and not the harmonic background.
The second part of Disc 2 is Byrd's five-part Mass, which was written in the 1590's for a recusant Catholic community. Byrd's music has drawn closer to the Flemish style; that is imitative voice parts, largely syllabic in setting with the occasional examples of word-paintings, and the voice parts closer together. But the mood has a different intensity than the writing on Disc one; darker and more questioning. Never was polyphony more passionate than in Byrd's masses,of which the five-part is the crowning achievement.
All the music sung on these two discs benefits from, clarity, both in the singing and the surrounding building(Merton Chapel in Oxford and Salle Church in Norfolk); both buildings chosen for the clarity of their acoustic.
Whether the sonority includes very high notes, as in some of the English repertoire, or has thick textures, as with the Flemish writing as in Brumel's 12 voice 'Gloria', the quality is enhanced by the buildings.
The members of the Tallis Scholars vary from year to year, and the list of participating singers is included in the accompanying booklet; but it does not tell you which singers are singing each year. That bothered me somewhat because I like to know to whom I am listening specifically. It does mention, however, that the solo group in Allegri's 'Miserere' is Alison Stamp (treble), Michael Chance (countertenor) Jane Armstrong and Julian Walker.
The recording is outstanding in every way. Perfect balance between the voices, perfect emotional investment, flawless dicton and the most beautiful vocal sounds you will ever hear; just Two and One-half hours of pure pleasure!
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