The Tallis Scholars

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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.
MEDIA / VIDEO
Arvo Pärt: Virgencita
Poulenc: Ave Maria
Victoria: First Lamentation
The Tallis Scholars perform Josquin at the 2017 Gramophone Awards
Obrecht: Missa de Sancto Donatiano
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ACCLAIM / TESTIMONIALS
"Nearly 50 years on, the sound remains the same, and though 'Scholars' have come and gone, Phillips is as committed to his 16-member ensemble and the music as ever.... The performance conveyed an overwhelming sense of peace, its stately progress rich in harmonic invention with the occasional scrunchy chord for added spice. The 14 singers here made a sumptuous sound with bright, clean sopranos floating above an ensemble notable for its seamless blend."
Musical America
"On the cusp of their 50th anniversary, Peter Phillips and his ensemble long ago secured their place in the top echelon of professional, early music choral groups."
Financial Times
“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
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DISCOGRAPHY

Josquin: Missa Hercules Dux Ferrarie - Missa D'ung aultre amer - Missa Faysant regretz

Released: November 1, 2020
Label: Gimell Records
Composers: Josquin

Josquin: Missa Mater Patris - Bauldeweyn: Missa Da pacem

Released: November 1, 2019
Label: Gimell Records
Composers: Josquin, Bauldeweyn

Josquin: Missa Gaudeamus and Missa L'ami Baudichon

Released: October 16, 2018
Label: Gimell Records
Composer: Josquin

Josquin: Missa Di dadi and Missa Une mousse de Biscaye

Released: October 28, 2016
Label: Gimell Records
Composer: Josquin

Taverner: Missa Corona spinea

Released: November 13, 2015
Label: Gimell Records
Composer: Taverner

Perfect Polyphony

Released: August 28, 2015
Label: Gimell Records

Tintinnabuli

Released: March 10, 2015
Label: Gimell Records
Composer: Pärt

The Tallis Scholars sing Thomas Tallis

Released: September, 2004
Label: Gimell Records
Composer: Thomas Tallis

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While Shepherds Watched

Available: November 29 - December 12, 2023
This program takes a slightly different look from usual at the Christmas story, viewing it from the point of view of the shepherds who came to worship at the crib. Music is by masters of the late Renaissance, from all over Europe.

Antoine Brumel and David Lang

Available: 2023-24
Composer David Lang was reminded of Galileo when Peter Phillips, founder and conductor of The Tallis Scholars, approached him about writing a new piece to be performed alongside Antoine Brumel's monumental Renaissance mass for 12 voices Missa Et ecce terræ motus.

Darkness to Light

Available: April 4-24, 2024
The journey behind this program is an obvious one at this time of year. The program proceeds from the darkness associated with Lent to the hope and joy which is Easter in the Christian calendar.

Chant

Available: November 27 - December 16, 2024
There is only one theme underlying this program, which is chant. The group presents this in three different ways: the 12th century interpretation of it by Hildegard of Bingen; the living Gregorian tradition as shown in these settings of the Salve regina and Nunc dimittis; and Arvo Pärt's reimagining of this tradition, partly in the Orthodox view. For 1000 years, chant represented all there was of 'classical' music. It went on to influence some of the greatest music ever written in its image. 

In dulci jubilo

Available: December 1-16, 2024
The most traditional way to celebrate Christmas is to turn to Gregorian chant. The Tallis Scholars do this in three different styles: the interpretation of it by the 12th century abbess Hildegard of Bingen (these are her own compositions); the living Gregorian tradition as shown in settings of the Salve regina and Nunc dimittis, and as adapted in the medieval popular song In dulci jubilo; and Arvo Pärt's reimagining of this tradition, partly in the Orthodox view.

Palestrina 500

Available: April 21 - May 6, 2025
The 500th anniversary of Palestrina's birth is the perfect opportunity to celebrate this most consummate of renaissance composers. From his time to ours he has come to represent an entire epoch of music, and to influence some of the greatest names from later centuries – Handel and Beethoven among them.

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