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The Tallis Scholars have established themselves as leading exponents of Renaissance sacred music through world-class recordings and concert performances. Their exploration of the depth and variety of this repertoire has reached a world-wide audience. Peter Phillips has worked with the ensemble to create, through good tuning and blend, the purity and clarity of sound which he feels best serves the Renaissance repertoire, allowing every detail of the musical lines to be heard. It is the resulting beauty of sound for which The Tallis Scholars have become renowned.

New recording of Allegri's Miserere

The Tallis Scholars are delighted to announce these new recordings of music written for the Sistine Chapel, including two recordings of Allegri's Miserere - one with the familiar top Cs, and one with additional embellishments developed by Deborah Roberts during hundreds of concert performances by The Tallis Scholars since their landmark first recording of this work in 1980. As Peter Phillips himself points out "the embellishments that the soprano sings on the way down from the top C - were not composed by Allegri, but improvised by generations of singers in the Sistine Chapel. These embellishments were guarded even more jealously than the written music…".

Now available on the Gimell label.
www.gimell.com

“The Tallis Scholars' excellent enunciation and vigorous approach to the concise and largely chordal Gloria and Credo of the Mass are combined with the brilliance and clarity of their tone.”
Daily Telegraph, March 2007

“These are as moving performances of the Miserere as you will hear - and the Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli that lies between them is exquisite too.”
HMV, March 2007

“They have a long and impressive track record, so it's a risky claim to make, but I believe that, on disc, this is the best thing The Tallis Scholars have ever done. “
International Record Review, March 2007

The Tallis Scholars' Australian tour

The Tallis Scholars have just returned from a triumphant and critically acclaimed sell-out tour of Australia during February 2007. After their performance in Melbourne, The Australian declared that The Tallis Scholars "have never sounded this good. There is an incredible sense that Phillips's superb singers are serenely comfortable within this repertoire, with no sign of the anaesthesia of over-familiarity. The sound is fresh and sparkling, and steadfastly resists the temptation to descend into vocal prettiness."
The tour included performances in Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide and Perth as part of the Perth International Arts Festival.
During 2007, The Tallis Scholars will tour the United States, Japan, Spain, Tenerife and the Netherlands as well as many performances in the UK.

What we really do: The Tallis Scholars by Peter Phillips

A collection of essays to celebrate the 30th anniversary of
The Tallis Scholars.

Available in October 2003, 252pp, with photographs
£16.99 / US$25.00 / €25.00 (P&P extra)

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