The Tallis Scholars

The Tallis Scholars were founded in 1973 by their director, Peter Phillips. Through their recordings and concert performances, they have established themselves as the leading exponents of Renaissance sacred music throughout the world. Peter Phillips has worked with the ensemble to create, through good tuning and blend, the purity and clarity of sound which he feels best serve the Renaissance repertoire, allowing every detail of the musical lines to be heard. It is the resulting beauty of sound for which The Tallis Scholars have become so widely renowned.

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Victoria: First Lamentation

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The Tallis Scholars perform Josquin at the 2017 Gramophone Awards

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Obrecht: Missa de Sancto Donatiano

“The rock stars of Renaissance vocal music.”

New York Times

“One of the UK's greatest cultural exports.”

BBC Radio 3

"As one of the most important accounts of Josquin’s Masses in recent decades, Peter Phillips’s albums with The Tallis Scholars continue to sparkle and inform. Already in these pages I have admired the clarity of vision and consistency of sound that this ensemble bring to his works; but with this new album there is a particular sheen to the performance that places it among their recent best."

Gramophone

"The Tallis Scholars under Peter Phillips gave a typically refined concert of their core repertoire: Tallis, Sheppard, Victoria, with a dash of Britten and Pärt. The singing offered – even to this atheist – a glimpse of heaven, generating a physical pleasure in the act of listening."

The Arts Desk

"The Tallis Scholars’ enunciation of the text of both masses is characteristically precise and clear.... Long vocal lines are effortlessly spun, and individual parts come together to form strikingly plush bodies of sound."

Opera Now

"The Tallis Scholars ... are one of the world’s premier vocal ensembles."

Washington Post

"The Tallis Scholars have been at the top of their profession since the group was founded in 1973, and the ten artists who visited Cleveland this month continue their long tradition of perfectly blended, tonally focused, wonderfully tuned singing."

Cleveland Classical

“The sound coming from the Tallis Scholars almost surpassed the humanly possible”

The Telegraph