2CDs | FLAC | 153:13 mins | HQ Scans (300dpi) | 3% Recovery | 623 MB
Classical | Year: 1999 | Label: Philips Classics | Language: Neutral
Here's one "best of" compilation that's actually worthy of the title. Culled from the Tallis Scholars' acclaimed series of recordings, this generously filled two-disc set presents masterworks of Renaissance polyphony in pristine performances.
From William Byrd's melancholy Mass for five voices to the extraordinary richness of Thomas Tallis's 40-voice motet "Spem in alium," and from the crystalline clarity of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's "Pope Marcellus" Mass to the strange harmonic twists of Carlo Gesualdo's "Tenebrae" Responses, the Tallis Scholars sing with conviction and breathtaking technical assurance. Josquin Desprez, one of the greatest composers in the history of Western classical music --and a Tallis Scholars specialty -- is represented by the vaulting lines of the "Pangue lingua" Mass and the lyrical purity of the motet "Ave Maria." The recorded sound is first class, and although there are no texts or translations included, this is a true bargain.
Track listing
Disc 1:
1. Work(s): Miserere
2. Spem in Alium (also set as 'Sing and glorify'), motet for 40 voices, P. 299
3. Mass for 5 Voices (SATTB): Kyrie
4. Mass for 5 Voices (SATTB): Gloria
5. Mass for 5 Voices (SATTB): Credo
6. Mass for 5 Voices (SATTB): Sanctus - Benedictus
7. Mass for 5 Voices (SATTB): Agnus Dei
8. Missa 'Pange Lingua', for 4 parts: Kyrie
9. Missa 'Pange Lingua', for 4 parts: Gloria
10. Missa 'Pange Lingua', for 4 parts: Credo
11. Missa 'Pange Lingua', for 4 parts: Sanctus - Benedictus
12. Missa 'Pange Lingua', for 4 parts: Agnus Dei 1 - 2 - 3
13. Versa est in Luctum
Disc 2:
1. Recessit pastor noster, responsory for Holy Saturday for 6 voices, W. 7/77
2. O vos omnes, Holy Saturday responsory for 6 voices, W. 7/80
3. Ecce quomodo moritur justus, tenebrae responsory for 6 voices, W. 7/82
4. Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 voices: Kyrie
5. Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 voices: Gloria
6. Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 voices: Credo
7. Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 voices: Sanctus - Benedictus
8. Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 voices: Agnus Dei 1 - 2
9. Osculetur me osculo, motet for 8 voices, M. xix (S. xxi/9)
10. Salve regina mater, motet for 6 voices, M. xiii (S. xiii/125)
11. Work(s): [Unspecified] Ave Maria
12. Dum transisset sabbatum (i), motet for 5 (another version exists for 4) voices
13. Magnificat
Total Time: 153:13 mins
# Performer: The Tallis Scholars
# Conductor: Peter Phillips
# Composer: Gregorio Allegri, Thomas [Composer] Tallis, William [Composer] Byrd, Josquin Desprez, Alonso Lobo, et al.
Notes:The Tallis Scholars has become one of the leading a cappella choral groups in the world, specializing in Renaissance sacred music.
The group was founded in 1973 by choral conductor Peter Phillips (who, coincidentally, bears the name of a noted English Renaissance composer (1560-1628). The aim was to create an ensemble that, through purity of intonation and impeccable balance of the often complex polyphonic texture of Renaissance music. The group takes its name from Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585), a leading English composer of the Renaissance era, famous in particular for one of the most complex of all a cappella compositions, "Spam in Alum," which is written for eight five-part choirs.
The Tallis Scholars quickly came to be popular on the busy English early music scene. In 1981 Phillips and Steve C Smith co-founded a record label, Gimlet Records, specifically to record the Tallis Scholars. The label is now one of the Philips labels, a part of the Polygram Group.
Becoming famous for their beautiful, blended sound, in which all the strands of the polyphony can be followed, they have toured extensively. The group undertakes at least two tours a year in the United States, and tours extensively in the Far East every eighteen months. They appear in Europe every month of the year when they are not on such farther tours. The Tallis Scholars was invited to sing at the Sistine Chapel at ceremonies honoring the new restoration of Michelangelo№s "Last Judgment." In February, 1994 they performed at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Palestrina, who had been a choirboy and, later, music director in that church.
The group has made over thirty-five recordings for Gimmel. They have recorded not only music of Tallis, Byrd and Palestrina, but lesser-known Renaissance composers such as Cipriano de Rore, Heinrich Isaac, Clemens non Papa, and Frei Manuel Cardoso.
In 1987 the Tallis Scholar№s disc of two parody masses by Josquin received the Gramophone Magazine Record of the Year Award, the first time an early music recording had been so honored. The group has also won two Diapason d№Or de l№Annйe awards. ~ Joseph Stevenson, All Music Guide
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