Tomkins - Know you not
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Special offer. Spem in alium
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The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Spem is literally a surround-sound piece, so this recording, the first to use the latest technology in new audio formats, gets closer than most. The Sixteen (enlarged to the requisite 40) have... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection Recommendation
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2003, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, October 2016, Recommended Version in English
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Thomas Tomkins: The Third Service, Anthems & Voluntaries
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The Choir of New College, Oxford, Edward Higginbottom
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In Chains of Gold: The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem, Volume 3
‘Ah, His Glory!’: Anthems of Praise, Prayer and Remembrance
Magdalena Consort, Fretwork, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Silas Wollston (organ)
In a nutshell, the transformed vocality, scale and rhetoric of the music-making is far closer to Italianate madrigals than ethereal choral balm. —
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Choral Masterpieces of the English Renaissance
The Choir of New College, Oxford, Edward Higginbottom
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