It had been decades since Peter Phillips' and his Tallis Scholars made a new recording of masses by Josquin. Their first Josquin disc coupling his Missa Pange lingua and his Missa La sol fa re mi was released in 1986 and their second coupling both his Masses based on the L'homme armé tune was released in 1989, but this coupling of his Missa Sine nomine and Missa Ad fugam was released 20 years later in 2008. In the event, it was worth the wait. Although five of the group's eight singers have changed since the last release -- ...
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It had been decades since Peter Phillips' and his Tallis Scholars made a new recording of masses by Josquin. Their first Josquin disc coupling his Missa Pange lingua and his Missa La sol fa re mi was released in 1986 and their second coupling both his Masses based on the L'homme armé tune was released in 1989, but this coupling of his Missa Sine nomine and Missa Ad fugam was released 20 years later in 2008. In the event, it was worth the wait. Although five of the group's eight singers have changed since the last release -- only soprano Sally Dunkley and basses Donald Grieg and Francis Steele remain from the earlier group -- the Tallis Scholars are still a model of the mixed gender approach to Renaissance music. Most of the credit for this, of course, should go to Phillips, whose emphasis on beauty of tone, clarity of textures, excellence of enunciation, and smoothness of ensemble has not altered since he founded the group in 1973.In these two Masses, Josquin's only works in the form entirely based on...
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