The Tallis Scholars have done a lot to keep Palestrina's star up there in the firmament during a wild, sensual age that generally has preferred wilder, more sensual music from the late Renaissance. By their count, they have performed the famed Missa Papae Marcelli (Pope Marcellus Mass) alone 75 times since first programming it in 1977. The group's approach to this musical exemplar of the middle-of-the-road principles of the Catholic Counter Reformation is exacting but not restrictive of surface beauty; the Tallis Scholars ...
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The Tallis Scholars have done a lot to keep Palestrina's star up there in the firmament during a wild, sensual age that generally has preferred wilder, more sensual music from the late Renaissance. By their count, they have performed the famed Missa Papae Marcelli (Pope Marcellus Mass) alone 75 times since first programming it in 1977. The group's approach to this musical exemplar of the middle-of-the-road principles of the Catholic Counter Reformation is exacting but not restrictive of surface beauty; the Tallis Scholars are a mixed choir capable of extraordinary gradations of blend, not a "pure" boychoir devoted to a Grail of historical authenticity. Their catalog of Palestrina recordings on England's Gimell label has been successful and rapturously reviewed. The Tallis Scholars Sing Palestrina is a compilation of earlier recordings, the first of which, that of the Missa Papae Marcelli, was made in Oxford's Merton College Chapel and dates from 1980. It's a fine survey of work by a group that's...
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Add this copy of Palestrina: the Tallis Scholars Sing Palestrina to cart. $4.98, fair condition, Sold by Goodwill rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brooklyn Park, MN, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Gimell.
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