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The Tallis Scholars 50th recording

07 March 2010
The Sunday Times
Stephen Pettitt

This release, celebrating the 30th anniversary* of the Tallis Scholars, is also the group’s 50th recording for its own Gimell label. These landmarks amply justify the idealism of the group’s founder and director, Peter Phillips, who in 1980 tested his conviction that the market for Renaissance polyphony was far wider than previously believed. Victoria’s Lamentations of Jeremiah is suitably great music for such an occasion — intense, condensed and directly and darkly expressive in the way only Iberian music, and perhaps only this remarkable composer, can be. Completing the recital are the early-17th-century Lamentations of the Mexico-based Juan Gutierrez de Padilla, equally powerful, rich-textured music.

See the original review in The Sunday Times.

*unfortunately Mr Pettitt got his facts wrong here, this release marks the 30th anniversary of the founding of Gimell; The Tallis Scholars were founded in 1973.

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