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Josquin: Masses
RecommendedHercules Dux Ferrarie, D'ung aultre amer & Missa Faysant regretz
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
Phillips’s reading of the Ferrarese work is fluid and supple, and there’s a gentle momentum even in the more contemplative sections...The Scholars’ sound is lean and clear: every strand of the... —
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Record Review, 7th November 2020, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Winner - Choral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Winner - Early Music
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This is absolutely superb. We must accept that Josquin is unlikely to have heard this music with two women on the top line, but they do it so well that only a fundamentalist would mark the disc... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1987, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1987, Winner - Early Music
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The Mass requires singers of the highest calibre and the Scholars rise magnificently to the challenge - both literally and figuratively speaking. The sopranos sing with razor-sharp precision,... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Choral Finalist
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Allegri: Miserere & Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
Andrew Carwood, Deborah Roberts, Sally Dunkley, Caroline Trevor & Donald Greig
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
Having thoroughly internalised this music, Phillips creates a reading of great authority. The greatest contrast between the two Merton College recordings… is the choir's sound: this now commands... —
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Sheppard (c.1515-58) was certainly an ingenious and interesting composer as this revelatory recording amply demonstrates…[The Missa Cantate] is performed here with clarity, poise and excellent... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Josquin des Prés: Masses - Gaudeamus; L'ami Baudichon
RecommendedThe Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
This is the seventh of nine projected discs in The Tallis Scholars' ongoing endeavour to record the complete Masses of Josquin des Prés. Using just nine singers gives an intimacy to these readings... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2018, Choral. & Song Choice
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Diapason d’Or, January 2019, Nouveauté
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outstanding realisations of Mouton's wonderful music...clarity is achieved notwithstanding his mathematical methods, and it's a quality that's brought out superbly by the Tallis Scholars and... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Choral Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Early Music
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Taverner: Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas & Magnificats
RecommendedRecorded to celebrate The Tallis Scholars’ 40th Anniversary on 3 November 2013
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
This performance is characterised by the Scholars' precision and sheer beauty of sound. The stratospheric treble line (sung here by female voices) dominates the texture...but the lingering effect... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th December 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Early Music
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Special offer. John Browne - Music from the Eton Choirbook
RecommendedThe Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
the sheer beauty and crystalline perfection of these performances from the Tallis Scholars, with those high-flying treble lines so radiantly recorded, make this an unforgettable and richly rewarding... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2005, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2005, Winner - Early Music
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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