This collection of Tallis pieces is a miscellany of the composer's works, featuring lush Latin antiphons, a very spare four-voice mass that resembles Tallis' Anglican music in its straightforward style, and a few rarely heard English pieces that are contrafacta or retextings of Latin pieces. There aren't any of the big Tallis hits, but for the lover of English Renaissance sacred music there is plenty of interest here in terms of Tallis' relationship to the times in which he lived and the agility he had in meeting various ...
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This collection of Tallis pieces is a miscellany of the composer's works, featuring lush Latin antiphons, a very spare four-voice mass that resembles Tallis' Anglican music in its straightforward style, and a few rarely heard English pieces that are contrafacta or retextings of Latin pieces. There aren't any of the big Tallis hits, but for the lover of English Renaissance sacred music there is plenty of interest here in terms of Tallis' relationship to the times in which he lived and the agility he had in meeting various demands. Hear the work that gives the album its title (track 4), with its intricate rhyme scheme and elegant musical response to it. The most distinctive feature of the performances is the sound of director Andrew Carwood's group the Cardinall's Musick, rich and intense with its black-belt forces of two voices per part. The contrast with the usual pure English cathedral style is large, to say nothing of the likes of the Hilliard Ensemble. The group sounds terrific in the warm acoustic...
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