Tallis - Lamentations of Jeremiah I
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Choral » Anthems & Motets
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Park’s direction of the music is sensitive and alert variegated...Words and polyphonic strands are lucid, and while The Gesualdo Six can build up intense and resonant climaxes, their voices... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Special offer. Tallis: Latin Church Music
RecommendedTaverner Consort & Taverner Choir, Andrew Parrott
[In Spem in alium] Parrott's sure touch tells in the form: the first entry is clear and confident...the first Mexican wave spreads inexorably, the arrival on the second tutti rings out like... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection Recommendation
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Building a Library, October 2016, First Choice
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This, the third volume of the survey by The Tallis Scholars of the music of the Tudor composer, Thomas Tallis, contains the well-known Lamentations, eight motets, and the extended motet Salve... —
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the performance of Tallis's Lamentations is majestically dark and intense, displaying this group's famous sensitivity toward musical structure, as well as their exquisite harmonic control...Only... —
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Building a Library, March 2018, Recommended Recording
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The Tallis Scholars produce a distilled, transparent sound and the spiritual tone of their performance is one of serene contemplation through which the Requiem's ecstatic 'external light' shines. —
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By approaching Tallis with authority, the singers of The Cardinall’s Musick illuminate his complex masterpieces —
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Building a Library, March 2018, Also Recommended
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Tallis: Spem in Alium
and other choral works
Winchester Cathedral Choir, Winchester College Quiristers, Vocal Arts Chorus, David Hill
A characterful acoustic, a spatially defined sound recording and treble-singing of a fine standard combine in an impressive conclusion [to Spem in alium] —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection Recommendation
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This is quite simply the best performance of Tallis's 40-part Spem in alium to date. Sung by a constellation of singers, many of them familiar names from other wellestablished choral groups,... —
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Building a Library, October 2004, First Choice
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Thomas Tallis - Complete Works Volume 8
Lamentations and Contrafacta
Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon
Two of the Biblical lessons for Maundy Thursday show Tallis at his most creative and imaginative.
'Incipit lamentatio…' the rising fourth, followed by a descending minor scale, imitated in turn... — -
Beautifully sung by Jeremy Summerly's fresh-toned choir. —
