Josquin Tallis Scholars

Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - The Spirit of the Renaissance: Josquin, Sheppard, Victoria [3CDs] (1998)

Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - The Spirit of the Renaissance: Josquin, Sheppard, Victoria (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 878 Mb | Total time: 74:16+55:08+65:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gimell | 462 856-2 | Recorded: 1989, 1990

Tallis Scholars are among the world's preeminent choral ensembles. Cultivating a distinctive vocal sound backed by impeccable scholarship, the group has helped raise the general level of interest in Renaissance choral music in Britain and beyond through a large catalog of recordings and numerous international tours.
Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Josquin des Prés: Hercules Dux Ferrarie, D'ung aultre amer, Faysant regretz (2020)

Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Josquin des Prés: Hercules Dux Ferrarie, D'ung aultre amer, Faysant regretz (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 313 Mb | Total time: 71:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gimell | # CDGIM 051 | Recorded: 2020

This release is the last in a series of nine Josquin mass recordings by The Tallis Scholars and their director, Peter Phillips. The series began in 1986, and Phillips has been the group's director since it was founded in 1973. The Tallis Scholars are, thus, a well-oiled machine, and they're capable of a flawless vocal blend that's hard to match even among England's superb collection of small choirs (the Scholars are ten strong). There are other ways to sing Josquin, but their hyper-clarity works well in his music, for it brings out the music's striking, Bachian complexity. This particular album, despite its ultimate position, is especially good, for in the Missa Hercules Dux Ferrarie and Missa Faysant Regretz, it's best to have no distractions from the strikingly bold underlying structure.
Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Josquin des Prés: Missa Mater Patris; Bauldeweyn: Missa Da pacem (2019)

Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Josquin des Prés: Missa Mater Patris; Bauldeweyn: Missa Da pacem (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 360 Mb | Total time: 72:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gimell | CDGIM 052 | Recorded: 2018

The graphics for this Tallis Scholars release mention scholarly disagreement over the Missa Mater Patris, long attributed to Josquin but "recently shown to be by the little-known Noel Bauldeweyn," writes director Peter Phillips. "Or is it?" he adds. He sketches out the controversy, pointing out that the mass does not resemble any of Josquin's other compositions in the genre; he doesn't answer his question. However, you might take the album as a rejoinder to those questioning the authenticity of the mass. Its possible removal from the Josquin canon rests entirely on this musical evidence, so Phillips is entitled to adduce musical evidence of his own: the genuine Bauldeweyn mass included here sounds nothing like Josquin but is basically a work in 15th century style with a bit of imitative counterpoint thrown in.
Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Josquin des Prez: Missae De beata virgine, Ave maris stella (2011)

Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Josquin des Prez: Missae De beata virgine, Ave maris stella (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 311 Mb | Total time: 75:58 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gimell | CDGIM 044 | Recorded: 2011

The Tallis Scholars are hands down the most difficult performing ensemble in the world to review. The reason is simple - they have been around for so many years and have produced such a consistent and high quality product, both on record and in the concert hall, that there is simply little to say about them anymore except "bring it on!"
Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Josquin des Préz: Missa di dadi & Missa Une mousse de Biscaye (2016)

Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Josquin des Prés: Missa di dadi & Missa Une mousse de Biscaye (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 322 Mb | Total time: 71:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gimell | # CDGIM 048 | Recorded: 2016

Renaissance composers frequently based sacred works on the melodies of secular songs, which were typically placed in the tenor part as a cantus firmus. The mixing of such elements, as in Josquin's Missa Di dadi and the Missa Une mousse de Biscaye, which were based respectively on the chansons N'aray je jamais mieulx and Une mousse de Biscaye, was common practice in the 15th century. However, Josquin also used images of dice in the tenor part of the Missa Di dadi, which have been interpreted as symbols representing time ratios, indicating the length of notes relative to the other three voices.
Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Josquin des Prés: Missa Gaudeamus & Missa L'ami Baudichon (2018)

Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Josquin des Prés: Missa Gaudeamus & Missa L'ami Baudichon (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 292 Mb | Total time: 66:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gimell | # CDGIM 050 | Recorded: 2018

This release by The Tallis Scholars, the seventh of nine in a project to record the complete masses of Josquin des Prez, explores two unique and contrasting works. Missa Gaudeamus represents Renaissance artistry at its most intense. Based on the first six notes of a chant melody, it deploys mathematics in a number of clever ways. Missa L'ami Baudichon represents Renaissance artistry at its most playful. It is based on just three notes from a secular folksong that sounds distractingly like the opening of Three Blind Mice. Known as the most adventurous composer of his time, Josquin's restless, searching intellect is on display in all his works.
Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Josquin: Missa Sine nomine, Missa Ad fugam (2008)

Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Josquin: Missa Sine nomine, Missa Ad fugam (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 281 Mb | Total time: 68:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gimel | # CDGIM 039 | Recorded: 2008

With their faultless intonation, transparency of line, and ideal balance between emotional intensity and cool intellectuality, the Tallis Scholars are unrivalled in this repertoire. Peter Phillips highlights the individuality of the different voice-parts - making their individuality comprehensible - yet forms a homogeneous overall sound. By comparing the early Missa Ad fugam and the later Missa Sine Nomine Josquin's stylistic development becomes clear: the thick sound-world of the early work, with its melismatic long-drawn-out lines, yields to a much tauter style, full of rhythmic contrasts without forfeiting any complexity.

The Tallis Scholars - The Best Of The Renaissance (1999)  Music

Posted by Pisulik at May 18, 2017
The Tallis Scholars - The Best Of The Renaissance (1999)

The Tallis Scholars - The Best Of The Renaissance (1999)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +cue, log, m3u, scans - 624 MB | 02:33:15
Classical | Label: Philips Classics | Release Year: 1999

As hateful and usually untrue as most "Best of" collections are, this one is the real thing. You actually do get two hours and 20 minutes of Renaissance music performed so exquisitely, so correctly, and so passionately that it's as if an entire era in music makes itself understood through these CDs. The Tallis Scholars are as good as it gets in this repertoire. In addition to getting Allegri's gorgeous Miserere, you'll find Thomas Tallis's 40-part (40!) Spem in alium, some wonderfully weird and dissonant Responsories by Gesualdo, Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli (the "how-to" piece of the Renaissance popes, who demanded that the words be understood), and various other works. This stuff is like a finely woven tapestry and should be listened to bits at a time–it's amazingly rich and worth it.
Peter Phillips & The Tallis Scholars - Renaissance Giants (Byrd, Josquin, Palestrina, Tallis, Taverner & Victoria) (2006)

Peter Phillips & The Tallis Scholars - Renaissance Giants (Byrd, Josquin, Palestrina, Tallis, Taverner & Victoria) (2006)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 557 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 348 Mb | 02:31:13
Classical, Sacred | Label: Gimell

"The Renaissance is well known for its cultural giants. Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and above all Michelangelo epitomize a period when the human spirit seemed to grow and gain in confidence. This collection of complete works celebrates the musical geniuses who contributed to this astonishing period in European history." Peter Phillips
The Tallis Scholars & Peter Phillips - Missa Hercules Dux Ferrarie, Missa D'ung aultre amer & Missa Faysant regretz (2020)

The Tallis Scholars & Peter Phillips - Missa Hercules Dux Ferrarie, Missa D'ung aultre amer & Missa Faysant regretz (2020)
FLAC tracks | 01:11:16 | 320 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Gimell

With this ninth and final release in their Josquin Mass cycle, Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars come to three of his greatest works. Although all three Masses come roughly from his early middle age, together they form a perfect showcase for a genius who felt challenged to make each setting different. - The Tallis Scholars' Josquin Mass cycle may have spanned the longest period of any project in the history of recorded music, with over 33 years having elapsed between the first album in the series which won the Gramophone Record of the Year Award in 1987 and this final instalment. Composer: Despres, Josquin (c.1440-1521)