Welcome to Hyperion Records, an independent British classical label devoted to presenting high-quality recordings of music of all styles and from all periods from the twelfth century to the twenty-first.
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from notes by John Milsom © 2013
![]() Sacred Music from the Renaissance Era for Celestial and Secular Radio. When Peter Phillips founded The Tallis Scholars in 1973 sacred vocal music from the Renaissance Era was seldom heard on radio. Now it is firmly established as one of the great ...» More |
![]() The first of three volumes featuring The Tallis Scholars' finest recordings, one for each decade, and each offering over five hours of the award-winning performances that helped establish Renaissance Polyphony as one of the great repertoires of we ...» More |
![]() The Gramophone Award-winning Tallis series from Andrew Carwood and The Cardinall’s Musick comes to a glorious close with both versions of the great forty-part motet: ‘Spem in alium’ itself and ‘Sing and glorify’, a later, English-language contrafa ...» More |
![]() The Complete English Anthems by Thomas Tallis including If ye love me and Hear the voice and prayer. The Psalm Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter include Why fum'th in fight, featured by Vaughan Williams in his Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tal ...» More |
![]() The present album perfectly illustrates developments from the 1540s. The Reformation began to take hold and the style of music required from composers such as Tallis altered radically. The large-scale melismatic votive antiphons were no longer req ...» More |
![]() Including Spem in alium as featured in 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. The author, E L James, said: 'I am delighted to have introduced so many of my readers to this amazing 16th-century piece of music, it is absolutely wonderful and the recording from The ...» More |