Since you are interested in Missa Nigra sum, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
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. |
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) |
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 |
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... |
CRISTOBAL DE MORALES
Cristobal de Morales: Missa si bona suscepimus The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips, director [ Gimell / CD - released 20/Nov/2000 ] 2001 GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST - Early Music |
CARLO GESUALDO
Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips, director [ Gimell / CD - released 25/Apr/2002 ] PERFORMANCE 10 - SOUND QUALITY 10: CD REVIEW (USA) |
NICOLAS GOMBERT
Magnificats 5 - 8 Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips (director) [ Gimell / CD - released 15/Dec/2002 ] "With perfectly tempered tuning and a rare purity of voice, the Tallis Scholars are on absolute top form" Observer CD of the Week |
Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips, director
Jacob Clemens non Papa - Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis [ Gimell / CD - released 6/Jun/2000 ] Rosette (Highest Rating) Penguin Stereo Guide |