Signum's Thomas Tallis: The Complete Works, Vol. 9, brings to a close a long-running series of discs devoted to recording every note of music written by Thomas Tallis, spearheaded by conductor and musicologist Alistair Dixon and the group Chapelle du Roi. Some of these pieces are so obscure that critical editions were produced only in the process of making the recordings, and publication of these scores will be done "in time" by The Cantiones Press. This is a worthy undertaking, as the published music will reflect the ...
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Signum's Thomas Tallis: The Complete Works, Vol. 9, brings to a close a long-running series of discs devoted to recording every note of music written by Thomas Tallis, spearheaded by conductor and musicologist Alistair Dixon and the group Chapelle du Roi. Some of these pieces are so obscure that critical editions were produced only in the process of making the recordings, and publication of these scores will be done "in time" by The Cantiones Press. This is a worthy undertaking, as the published music will reflect the experience of practical performance, rather than being a mere transcription of old notation into new. Thomas Tallis: The Complete Works, Vol. 9, consists of that which survives of Tallis' secular output. Tallis' Latin Church music and settings for use in English services dominate his turnout to such a degree that the mere thought of a secular component to his worklist seems debatable. Nonetheless, such music does exist for Tallis, although one might describe many of these items as being...
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