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They are in cracking form here, with no discernible weak link in the ensemble: honey-toned and purposeful sopranos, assertive countertenors and everything on down to match. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2021 More…

Unsurprisingly, refinement abounds, though sometimes at the expense of ‘bite’. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Christophers’s juxtapositions are always rewarding, and The Sixteen is on ravishing form. There’s an unmannered generosity to the singing whose wide-eyed freshness enables Christophers to keep... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The singers make a beautifully balanced sound with impressive fluency across each style...there is a pleasing tension between a consort blend and the vital quirkiness of individual voices...Jourdain’s... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2018 More…

The ensemble's view of this repertory, though hardly new, is delivered with such intelligence and rhetorical persuasiveness that the cumulative weight of their Byrd, in particular, is well-nigh... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2012 More…

In 2002 The Tallis Scholars recorded an audio-visual Byrd-fest in three parts: a concert- format sequence of some of his sacred music in the atmospheric setting of Tewkesbury Abbey; a documentary... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

This will delight fans of Byrd and this choir. Compelling performances (especially Ave verum) and a resonant if slightly distant sound. Some pieces though (the Mass a 5) have a surface, rather... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…