Essential Tallis Scholars
 A real gem of sacred Renaissance music: I can't even begin to understand why this wonderful album, a selection from recordings of the renowned Tallis scholars starting in 1980, has remained without reviews so far. Let me tell all lovers of Renaissance [... more]
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Playing Elizabeths Tune
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0755138159204 Release Date: 2007-04-03 Running Time: 66 minutes UPC: 755138159204 [... more]
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Best O/T Renaissance
From Amazon.com: As hateful and usually untrue as most "Best of" collections are, this one is the real thing. You actually do get two hours and 20 minutes of Renaissance music performed so exquisitely, so correctly, and so passionately that it' [... more]
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Missa Pange Lingua/Missa La
From Amazon.com: This disc is very much a mixed bag. The Tallis Scholars give Josquin's great Pange lingua Mass a rather pedestrian reading: all the variations Josquin works on the plainchant hymn tune are audible, but the balances are off (Phillips has [... more]
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L Homme Arme Masses
Powerful music: --Josquin des Prez-- Josquin des Prez was one of the greatest Dutch composers. Born about 1450, he worked through much of his career in church positions. A student of Johan Ockeghem, a Flemish contrapuntist, he developed this considerably [... more]
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Sarum Chant Missa In Gallican
It doesn't get any better than this...: --Sarum Use-- The term 'sarum use' refers to the practices, musically and liturgically, of Salisbury Cathedral, which was during much of the church life in England one of the leading lights in liturgical [... more]
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Western Wind Masses
As the spirit blows: --John Taverner, Christopher Tye, and John Sheppard-- Taverner (1490-1545) was an organist and choirmaster at Oxford during Henry VIII's time, appointed to the position by Cardinal Wolsey. A first-rate composer, he composed many [... more]
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Palestrina Masses
In the Palestrina discography's top percentile: Not only does this superbly engineered issue belong in the Palestrina discography's top percentile, it shows how greatly the composer's earlier idiom differed from that of his later - and better-known - [... more]
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Tenebrae Responsories For Holy
Music of darkness and power...: --Don Carlo Gesualdo-- Gesualdo is a unique composer in many ways. He was a prince of Venosa, and given to courtly intrigues. His first wife was unfaithful to him - he had her murdered, along with her lover. He later [... more]
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Requiem
a must have: Cardoso's aesthetic is quite forward looking compared to his contemporaries. Some very colourful harmonies and modulations that you would not find elsewhere in music. But they're always tastefully employed, enhancing the overall serenity and [... more]
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Great Service
Great in all respects...: --William Byrd-- William Byrd was a composer of grace and power. A staunch Catholic in an increasingly Protestant country, Byrd maintained his church loyalties at high cost. However, as a recognised genius at liturgical music, [... more]
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Tallis Scholars Sing Thomas
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0755138120327 MPN: 203 Number Of Discs: 2 Release Date: 2004-08-03 Running Time: 159 minutes UPC: 755138120327 Tracks: Spem In Alium Sancte Deus Salvator Mundi, Salva Nos I Salvator Mundi, Salva Nos II Gaude Gloriosa Miserere [... more]
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