Gramophone Magazine: 20 Greatest Choirs
“…I could easily believe that the composers themselves never heard this works performed so well except in their own minds…”
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3 January 2011
The Tallis Scholars have been hailed by the New York Times as ‘The rock stars of Renaissance vocal music’. The Tallis Scholars have long received world-wide acclaim for the beauty of their sound and their unique performances of Renaissance music and contemporary commissions alike. Described by Lindsay Kemp as having ‘superb textural clarity, faultless intonation, meticulous recording standards and a personnel that consistently draws from the finest consort singers a well-provided nation has to offer’, the ensemble feature at number 13 in Gramophone’s list.
