Gimell's two-disc set The Tallis Scholars Sing Tudor Church Music, Vol. 2, is part of a program in which the Tallis Scholars appear to be consolidating their earlier albums into more efficiently arranged packages at a slightly lower price point than has been their wont. This is a good thing; as by virtue of the survival rate of the renaissance composers in which they specialize, certain discs tended to be short, and these regrouped issues deliver more bang for one's buck. This set, issued as a companion to The Tallis ...
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Gimell's two-disc set The Tallis Scholars Sing Tudor Church Music, Vol. 2, is part of a program in which the Tallis Scholars appear to be consolidating their earlier albums into more efficiently arranged packages at a slightly lower price point than has been their wont. This is a good thing; as by virtue of the survival rate of the renaissance composers in which they specialize, certain discs tended to be short, and these regrouped issues deliver more bang for one's buck. This set, issued as a companion to The Tallis Scholars Sing Tudor Church Music, Vol. 1, includes on its first disc the whole of a 1989 release devoted to John Sheppard, Media vita, along with Sheppard's entry from the 1993 disc Western Wind Masses. The second combines three Tallis motets from the album Thomas Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah with the whole of a disc devoted to music of Robert White, one of the best discs the Tallis Scholars ever made, devoted to a composer then completely unknown. That has always been one of the...
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