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bewitching the ear

05 April 2010
The Times
Geoff Brown

When do the Tallis Scholars pause for breath? Nowhere, it seems, in the gliding vocal beauties of Victoria, Spain's 16th-century master composer, at his most eloquent in these Lamentation settings. Peter Phillips's veteran group field a blended tone of astonishing purity, with no notes fussily manicured or stamped out by a machine. There's bliss in hearing them sing the four syllables of the word "Jerusalem", which opens each Lamentation's refrain. Harmonies, too, keep bewitching the ear.

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