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The endless hot summer drags on, and the promise of Advent and Christmas, recalled by the mid-August arrival of this new recording from Stile Antico,
It’s not easy to conceive and successfully impose a concert-performance dynamic on the formal, square structures of Tallis’ Psalm-tune settings, bringing an air of excitement
One thing you have to say: there’s a lot of sound on this CD. Not only is the sound of the “chamber” choir huge, but
While remembered primarily for his innovative choral writing, Thomas Tallis also was an active organist throughout his long and prolific life. Given this, as well
Few ensembles are as difficult to write about as the incomparable Tallis Scholars. Inevitably, you just string together an array of superlatives and hope that
Paul Hillier takes a global–or at least Western European/North American–view of Thanksgiving in this eclectic program of primarily vocal music from medieval to modern times.
Thomas Tallis’ 40-voice motet Spem in alium (scored for eight five-part choirs) was composed some 400 years before the modern age of recordings, and perhaps
Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society, founded nearly 200 years ago and responsible for the American premieres of such works as Handel’s Messiah, makes some lovely
The programming may or may not have been a good idea, but for about six bucks you can have this 20-minute-long recording that pairs Thomas
The musical and sonic splendors of this CD having already been discussed at length by David Vernier (type Q7162 in the search box for his
