HEINRICH ISAAC / JOHANNES OCKEGHEM / ANTOINE BRUMEL / ORLANDUS LASSUS / etc
Flemish Masters Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips (director) [ Gimell / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] "As ever Peter Phillips directs these performances with clarity, precision and a feel for a nicely modulated line...simply lie back and enjoy some fabulous music, beautifully and intelligently sung." (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month Nov 2009) |
WILLIAM BYRD
Playing Elizabeth's Tune The Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips - Merton College Chapel, Oxford. [ BBC / Gimell / DVD - released 18/Apr/2005 ] G :- All Regions - Widescreen 16:9 Anamorphic - LPCM Stereo / Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - Colour - PAL Peter Phillips directs The Tallis Scholars in sacred music by William Byrd, Queen Elizabeth 1st favourite composer, filmed by candelight in... |
CLEMENS non PAPA / PRAETORIUS / TALLIS / VICTORIA / etc
Christmas with the Tallis Scholars Tallis Scholars [ Gimell / 2 CD - released 18/Mar/2004 ] "Heavenly simplicity, and more intoxicating than most things you'll be offered over the holiday season." BBC Music Magazine |
JOHANNES OCKEGHEM
Ockeghem: Missa Au travail suis / Missa De plus en plus Tallis Scholars [ Gimell / CD - released 15/Dec/2002 ] Specially recorded to celebrate the music of Johannes Ockeghem in the year of his 500th Anniversary. Ockeghem died on February 6th, 1497. |
VICTORIA
Lamentations of Jeremiah Tallis Scholars [ Gimell / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] "It is good to have new recordings by Peter Phillips and company. This is a no-brainer and is enthusiastically urged on everyone." (Five Stars AudAud.com) |
WILLIAM BYRD
Tallis Scholars sing William Byrd (Incls Mass for Five Voices & Mass for Four Voices) Tallis Scholars [ Gimell / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2010 ] "This will delight fans of Byrd and this choir. Compelling performances (especially Ave verum) and a resonant if slightly distant sound. Some pieces though (the Mass a 5) have a surface, rather than inner, drive." BBC Music Magazine, January 2008 **** |
HEINRICH ISAAC
Isaac: Missa de Apostolis Tallis Scholars [ Gimell / CD - released 18/Mar/2004 ] PERFORMANCE 10 - SOUND QUALITY 10: CD REVIEW (USA) |
PALESTRINA
Masses (25th Anniversary Presentation Pack) Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips (conductor) [ Gimell / CD - released 1/May/2006 ] |
Tallis Scholars
Palestrina - Motet and Mass Assumpta est Maria in caelum / Motet and Mass Sicut [ Gimell / CD - released 8/May/2001 ] GRAMOPHONE EARLY MUSIC AWARD 1991 |
WILLIAM BYRD / THOMAS TALLIS / JOSQUIN des PRES / etc
Tallis Scholars sing Renaissance Giants Tallis Scholars [ Gimell / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "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." BBC Music |
ARVO PÄRT
Tintinnabuli [incls 'Magnificat' & 'Triodion'] Tallis Scholars [ Gimell / CD - released 2/Mar/2015 ] "the purity of The Tallis Scholars' sound provides the perfect scaffolding for the pieces on this disc...And in their performance...The Tallis Scholars have presented their chosen repertoire in the way they have always done best - as a sound world o |
JOHN BROWNE / WILLIAM CORNYSH / JOHN TAVERNER / CHRISTOPHER TYE
Tudor Church Music Vol 1 (2 CD) Tallis Scholars [ Gimell / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] "Of all the polyphony we have recorded, this early English style with its dazzling high treble parts and luminous sonorities is, for me, as good as it gets. Henry VIII would have known this sound from childhood and may well have included some of the... |
JOHN SHEPPARD / THOMAS TALLIS / ROBERT WHITE
Tudor Church Music Vol 2 (2 CD) Tallis Scholars [ Gimell / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] "Of all the polyphony we have recorded, this early English style with its dazzling high treble parts and luminous sonorities is, for me, as good as it gets. Our pioneering performances of Sheppard and White have shown them to be the equals of Tallis... |
JOHN TAVENER
Tavener: Ikon of Light (Reissue) The Tallis Scholars, Chilingirian String Quartet [ Gimell / CD - released 28/Jul/2017 ] "Perhaps the time is right for the musical establishment (and the record industry) to begin to recognize Tavener as one of our most gifted and important composers of choral music. I hope so, for a talent so prodigious and special as his appears all... |
JOHN TAVERNER
Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas Tallis Scholars / Peter Philips [ Gimell / CD - released 20/Mar/2012 ] "Most of this comes from a CD of 1986 which was itself a reissue of an LP from 1984. But by adding their more recent recording of the Western Wind Mass The Tallis Scholars have created an anthology containing some of Taverner's most remarkable music:... |
JOSQUIN des PRES
Missa Sine Nomine / Misa Ad fugam Tallis Scholars / Peter Philips [ Gimell / CD - released 26/Feb/2008 ] "Tallis Scholars fans will need no encouragement--or even a review--to convince them of the worthiness of this new recording, the third in a projected cycle of complete Josquin masses; but anyone who doesn't yet know this group would do well to start... |
JOHN TAVERNER
The Western Wynde Mass Tallis Scholars / Peter Philips [ Gimell / CD - released 14/Dec/2007 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (pre 1700) - The Western Wind Masses of Taverner, Tye and Sheppard make a unique set. Not only was there no other example in English renaissance music of a linked series of mass compositions by... |
BRUMEL / OBRECHT / TALLIS / PALESTRINA / CARDOSO / etc
Sacred Music in the Renaissance Volume 2 (finest recordings 1990-1999) Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips [ Gimell / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2010 ] The Tallis Scholars' finest recordings presented in three volumes, one for each decade, and each offering over five hours of the award-winning performances that helped establish the sacred vocal music of the Renaissance as one of the great... |
VERDELOT / GOMBERT / BROWNE / PALESTRINA / ALLEGRI / JOSQUIN
Sacred Music in the Renaissance Volume 3 (finest recordings 2000-2009) Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips [ Gimell / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "The final instalment in a wonderful celebration of 30 years of dedicated and highly skilled recording." (Bargain of the Month MusicWeb Nov 2010) |
THOMAS TALLIS
Tallis Scholars sing Thomas Tallis Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips (conductor) [ Gimell / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2010 ] "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." (BBC MUSIC Five Stars) |