Renaissance Radio – The Tallis Scholars/ Peter Phillips [TrackList follows] – Gimell (2 CDs)

by | May 30, 2013 | Classical Reissue Reviews

Renaissance Radio – The Tallis Scholars/ Peter Phillips [TrackList follows] – Gimell CD212 (2 CDs), 2:32:00 [Distr. by Harmonia mundi] ****:

The strange title of this set refers to the fact that when the Tallis Scholars first started in 1973 sacred vocal music from the Renaissance was never heard on classical radio. Now it has been firmly established in the repertory, in no small part due to the efforts of Phillips’s remarkable group, surely at the top of the heap of all such ensembles, if not quite peerless. Now here, in an effort to celebrate their fortieth anniversary, the group has elected to release a well-documented and text-full package of selections taken from their vast catalog. The composers and pieces are too numerous to enumerate, but you will find, Lassus, Gesualdo, Tallis, Victoria, Cornysh, Byrd, and others in performances that simply are not to be bettered, though in collections like this they are excised from larger works. For some people, fans of the ensemble (like me) or those who have large medieval and renaissance collections will most likely find this superfluous, but for those just starting out, or who wish a decent quality sampler of the era, this set will prove ideal. The 47 tracks, each less than about six minutes long, range from 1973 to the 2012 Jean Mouton disc. Quite a tasty sampler for those in the mood.

TrackList: Disc 1

1 Miserere
Gregorio Allegri
5:50
 
2 Ave Maria… virgo serena
Josquin Desprez
5:26
 
3 Descendi in hortum meum
Cipriano de Rore
5:27
 
4 Ego flos campi
Jacobus Clemens Non Papa
4:10
 
5 Salva nos, Domine
Jean Mouton
2:30
 
6 Ave regina caelorum
Orlande de Lassus
3:52
 
7 Salve regina
Orlande de Lassus
3:57
 
8 Joseph lieber, Joseph mein
Hieronymus Praetorius
2:32
Missa L’homme armé sexti toni
 
9 Agnus Dei 3
Josquin Desprez
4:15
Missa Et ecce terrae motus
 
10 Agnus Dei 2
Antoine Brumel
3:29
Missa Brevis
 
11 Agnus Dei 2
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
3:06
 
12
Sicut lilium inter spinas
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
4:44
 
13 Precibus et meritis
Carlo Gesualdo
3:02
 
14 Maria, mater gratiae
Carlo Gesualdo
3:42
 
15 Ave virgo sanctissima
Francisco Guerrero
3:59
 
16 Ave Maria
Tomás Luis de Victoria
2:16
 
17 O vos omnes (from Tenebrae Responsories)
Tomás Luis de Victoria
2:53
 
Requiem
 
18 Kyrie
Tomás Luis de Victoria
2:36
 
19 Graduale
Tomás Luis de Victoria
3:10
 
20 Versa est in luctum
Tomás Luis de Victoria
3:50
 
TrackList: Disc 2

Lamentations 1
 
1 Incipit
Thomas Tallis
1:21
 
2 Aleph
Thomas Tallis
2:39
 
3 Beth
Thomas Tallis
4:48
 
4 Mihi autem nimis
Thomas Tallis
2:37
 
5 O sacrum convivium
Thomas Tallis
3:39
 
6 O nata lux
Thomas Tallis
2:03
 
7 Miserere nostri
Thomas Tallis
2:32
 
8 Leroy Kyrie
John Taverner
3:33
Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas
 
9 [Excerpt]
John Taverner
2:58
 
10 Ave Maria
William Cornysh
3:10
 
11 Christe qui lux es 3
Robert White
4:54
 
12 In manus tuas 1
John Sheppard
3:28
 
13 In manus tuas 2
John Sheppard
2:55
 
14 In manus tuas 3
John Sheppard
2:55
 
Mass for four voices
 
15 Agnus Dei
William Byrd
3:18
 
16 If ye love me
Thomas Tallis
2:04
 
17 Hear the voice and prayer
Thomas Tallis
3:05
 
18 A new commandment
Thomas Tallis
2:42
Psalm Tunes
 
19 Why fum’th in fight
Thomas Tallis
0:57
 
20 Even like the hunted hind
Thomas Tallis
0:52
 
21 God grant we grace
Thomas Tallis
1:03
 
22 Come Holy Ghost
Thomas Tallis
0:41
 
23 When David heard
Thomas Tomkins
4:26
 
24 Sing joyfully
William Byrd
2:48
 
25 O God, the proud are risen
William Byrd
3:03
 
26 O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth
William Byrd
2:51
27 Nunc dimittis (from the Great Service)
William Byrd
5:20 

—Steven Ritter

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