Browse: Tallis - If ye love me

The Tallis is performed with a suitably gorgeous sound by ORA, even if this listener yearned for more sonic bite at times, but the choir soars in the disc’s new commissions. Alongside richly... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Everywhere [Skinner] negotiates an ear-opening path through the changing shapes and densities of Tallis’s ever-fluid formulations; the polyphony is delineated with laser-sharp precision, and... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The line-up might play safe, but it’s all exquisitely done, collegiate smoothness and blend to the fore. And what blend! The harmonic voicing is immaculate yet always sensitive to the imperatives... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Tallis Scholars produce a distilled, transparent sound and the spiritual tone of their performance is one of serene contemplation through which the Requiem's ecstatic 'external light' shines. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2005, 5 out of 5 stars More…

During periods of Protestant ascendancy, Tallis (like his contemporaries) was compelled to move with the times and write in a style that pleased the religious authorities; these periods gave... — David Smith, Presto Music, October 2014 More…

In the anthems, particularly, the Cardinall's Musick pulls the listener into Tallis's splendid architecture, with perfect paragraphing and line shape. For the most part, though, it retains a... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The St Catharine’s girls and women exhibit a gleamingly blended tonal quality, and an articulate engagement with the Latin text…[the men] produce a pleasingly focused sound, with fluid variation... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…