Tallis - Loquebantur variis linguis
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Choral » Anthems & Motets
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The line-up might play safe, but it’s all exquisitely done, collegiate smoothness and blend to the fore. And what blend! The harmonic voicing is immaculate yet always sensitive to the imperatives... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Winner - Early Music
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For the 1985 quatercentenary of Tallis's death, Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars produced this version of Spem in alium; in many respects it's clearly the most successful ever recorded.... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The Tallis is performed with a suitably gorgeous sound by ORA, even if this listener yearned for more sonic bite at times, but the choir soars in the disc’s new commissions. Alongside richly... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2017
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Ensemble (choral)
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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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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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Veni Creator Spiritus - Second Vespers of the Solemnity of Pentecost
Peter Stevens (organ), Westminster Cathedral Choir, The Choir of Buckfast Abbey, Simon Johnson
The recording has the atmosphere of an important ecclesiastical event...Westminster Cathedral Choir sounds in its element throughout, with Ad Fontes's recording team capturing the spacious,... —
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Superbly recorded, it is a masterclass in outstanding breadth of interpretation, balance and total teamwork … the group’s ‘worker’s co-operative’ ethos continues to reap dividends with, on this... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Special offer. Thomas Tallis’s Secret Garden
RecommendedSacred music in Latin
Ensemble européen William Byrd, Graham O'Reilly
The voices are pure and glide peacefully amongst each other. The balance is excellent and the recording captures the warmth of the acoustic as well as the clarity of the singers’ voices superbly. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th December 2009
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The line-up might play safe, but it’s all exquisitely done, collegiate smoothness and blend to the fore. And what blend! The harmonic voicing is immaculate yet always sensitive to the imperatives... —
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$29.50
