Quite a few recordings are available for the listener seeking a recording of Thomas Tallis' choral music, but this one tries to distinguish itself on a couple of fronts. First is the program; second is the vocal ensemble. The program includes a good deal of music from Tallis' youth, before the Protestant takeover of English music. Tallis succeeded in adapting to the politico-religious winds in England, and this program shows just what a feat that was. The marquee work, the Missa Salve Intemerata, was probably composed in ...
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Quite a few recordings are available for the listener seeking a recording of Thomas Tallis' choral music, but this one tries to distinguish itself on a couple of fronts. First is the program; second is the vocal ensemble. The program includes a good deal of music from Tallis' youth, before the Protestant takeover of English music. Tallis succeeded in adapting to the politico-religious winds in England, and this program shows just what a feat that was. The marquee work, the Missa Salve Intemerata, was probably composed in the late 1530s. Both it and the massive, still earlier motet on which it is based, are in the style of older English music, with rich, free polyphony creating a monumental effect. They are quite an interesting pair; the motet is almost as long as the mass (which, like other English masses of the period, has no Kyrie), and the mass shows Tallis mastering the Continental parody technique. All this music is in a completely different world from the simple polyphony required by the early...
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