Special offer. Nico Muhly: No Resting Place
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Editor's Choice
There's no doubt that former chorister Muhly not only understands his forces but is excited and energised by their expressive potential, which he tests and teases to wonderfully contrasting...
Special offer. Nico Muhly: No Resting Place
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Editor's Choice
There's no doubt that former chorister Muhly not only understands his forces but is excited and energised by their expressive potential, which he tests and teases to wonderfully contrasting...
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Nico Muhly and The Tallis Scholars present ‘No Resting Place’, a collection of world premiere recordings of works that Muhly wrote for The Tallis Scholars over the last 10 years, by invitation of their director Peter Phillips.
Phillips says that Muhly ‘immediately understood our particular sound. A succession of masterpieces followed, each as powerful as the last.’ The title work, No Resting Place, is a setting of Jeremiah’s Lamentations, interspersed with contemporary interviews with people from the Windrush generation. Recordare, Domine also sets texts from Lamentations, while Marrow is a setting of Psalm 63. Rough Notes, using cold textures, austere counterpoint and unstable harmonies, draws from Captain Scott’s diary on his doomed mission to the Antarctic. Prosperitie was written to celebrate Peter Phillips’ 70th birthday, and A Glorious Creature praises the glory of the soul. This album marks the start of a new collaboration between The Tallis Scholars and Linn.
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Gramophone MagazineApril 2026Editor's Choice
April 2026
There's no doubt that former chorister Muhly not only understands his forces but is excited and energised by their expressive potential, which he tests and teases to wonderfully contrasting effects.
30th March 2026
Two factors make the entire album a joy. One is the nature of Muhly’s musical language, flexible enough to bend this way and that without causing any serious rupture. The other is his deep understanding of the vocal qualities that make Phillips’s group so special: purity of tone and immaculate precision, together with a forthright warmth that knocks out any possibility of a performance spoilt by being stored too long in the fridge.