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Track(s) taken from CDA68026

Quod chorus vatum

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Hymn at Vespers on the Feast of the Purification (Candlemas)

The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood (conductor)
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Recording details: February 2013
Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle, United Kingdom
Produced by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
Engineered by Martin Haskell & Iestyn Rees
Release date: March 2014
Total duration: 4 minutes 26 seconds

Cover artwork: The Queen Mary Atlas (c1555-1558). Diogo Homem (1521-1576)
© The British Library Board / Add. 5415 A, ff.9v−10
 

Other recordings available for download

Gallicantus, Gabriel Crouch (conductor)
Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon (conductor)

Reviews

‘Tallis's Christmas Mass … is sung here with customary perfection by The Cardinall's Musick, who polish other Tallis gems alongside it, most notably Videte miraculum, a work of such sensuous beauty it quite eclipses the Mass’ (The Observer)» More

‘The new recording rivals the best of those available: it’s Hyperion’s Recording of the Month for March 2014 and it’s mine, too … the opening work on the new recording, Salvator mundi, Domine, from Compline, shows polyphony arising from the plainsong opening like an organic growth. It’s important that the transition should seem like moving from one world to another, yet appear to be seamless, and this The Cardinall’s Musick achieve to perfection. The scene is set for another CD to match the high quality of its two predecessors’ (MusicWeb International)» More

«L'approche de Carwood est rhétorique: franche accentuation du texte dans des tempos allants, voix et lignes plus individualisées et sonorité moins ronde. L'influence de Pro Cantione Antiqua, revendiquée par Carwood, est évidente … il faudra suivre de près cette nouvelle traversée de l'univers de Thomas Tallis» (Diapason, France)» More

Other albums featuring this work

Queen Mary's Big Belly
Studio Master: SIGCD464Download onlyStudio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available
Tallis: The Complete Works, Vol. 4
SIGCD010Download only
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