Easily one of the best (if not THE best) recordings I've ever heard of this piece. And now I'm DEVASTATED that you haven't recorded part two as well, haha. So well done.
Gorgeous texture you all achieved. I think the liveness of the space and really the piece itself could have used a tempo a few ticks slower. Artifacts at 0.9x playback speed are surprisingly ignorable, for me at least. . .:p
During the eighty years that Tallis lived (1505 - 1585) sometime after 1538 Catholic property was seized and confiscated by the government of Henry VIII. Churches and statues were demolished, and Catholic books and artifacts burnt in bonfires. The proceeds from confiscating fast Catholic properties helped finance Henry VIII's lifestyle and his many wars that proved unsuccessful. Back and forth seizure of territory between the two warring factions went on for years. Each side punished their rivals once they took over cities, towns and country. Thomas Tallis lived his entire adult life amidst this conflict, as a public and self-proclaimed Catholic. Well known as such, he was so respected by Anglican forces in power that he was never arrested, sanctioned or even blacklisted from creating and performing his well-loved sacred music. Tallis spent his years as an esteemed composer, choir master and teacher in an age as is ours, of change, controversy, division, wars, crimes against humanity - simultaneously coupled with acts of courage, compassion and mercy. His was also the age of discovery, scientific exploration and the perfection of literature as well as painting and sculpture the likes of which we have not seen the equal of, ever since. His music quelled the warring hearts bringing with its sublime harmonies a reconciliation of the beast within that quenched the fires of hatred that even now can be felt - experienced in-total after four and half centuries of the greatest and fastest changes in history; yet the effect of these harmonies remain unchanged on the human heart.
A lot more damage was done under Henry's son, Edward VI, than was done under Henry himself -- especially to music manuscripts, religious art in churches, and organs.
Two things would make this performance go from very good to excellent. Two - three singers on each part Microphones away from the singers enough to hear the sound of the room acoustics. Then it could be slightly slower.
Lovely!
Beautiful music, is part two available?
Truely inspiring performance, thank you deeply.
Easily one of the best (if not THE best) recordings I've ever heard of this piece. And now I'm DEVASTATED that you haven't recorded part two as well, haha. So well done.
Yes❤
Beautifully shaped and sensitively tuned. Very lovely.
Perfection! Thank you so much for helping me learn the Discantus part!!!
Perfection.
¡Perfecto!
Wrap this around me, let me wear it as a cloak and live inside its mystical warmth.
This is premier music, my friend, that not many people today know about. Enjoy :)
What beautiful words you use. Thanks.
I much prefer this to the pop repertoire - truly timeless.
Couldnt have put it better myself
I wondered why the sound balance andntexture of modern recordings was weird. Turns out the microphones are literally right in front of them
Me acabo de enamorar 😍👏
Gorgeous texture you all achieved. I think the liveness of the space and really the piece itself could have used a tempo a few ticks slower. Artifacts at 0.9x playback speed are surprisingly ignorable, for me at least. . .:p
During the eighty years that Tallis lived (1505 - 1585) sometime after 1538 Catholic property was seized and confiscated by the government of Henry VIII. Churches and statues were demolished, and Catholic books and artifacts burnt in bonfires. The proceeds from confiscating fast Catholic properties helped finance Henry VIII's lifestyle and his many wars that proved unsuccessful. Back and forth seizure of territory between the two warring factions went on for years. Each side punished their rivals once they took over cities, towns and country.
Thomas Tallis lived his entire adult life amidst this conflict, as a public and self-proclaimed Catholic. Well known as such, he was so respected by Anglican forces in power that he was never arrested, sanctioned or even blacklisted from creating and performing his well-loved sacred music. Tallis spent his years as an esteemed composer, choir master and teacher in an age as is ours, of change, controversy, division, wars, crimes against humanity - simultaneously coupled with acts of courage, compassion and mercy. His was also the age of discovery, scientific exploration and the perfection of literature as well as painting and sculpture the likes of which we have not seen the equal of, ever since.
His music quelled the warring hearts bringing with its sublime harmonies a reconciliation of the beast within that quenched the fires of hatred that even now can be felt - experienced in-total after four and half centuries of the greatest and fastest changes in history; yet the effect of these harmonies remain unchanged on the human heart.
Blessed Thomas, pray for us.
A lot more damage was done under Henry's son, Edward VI, than was done under Henry himself -- especially to music manuscripts, religious art in churches, and organs.
England was one of Europe's most powerful States, at the end of Henry VIII reign...
Unsuccessful?
I like that but its bothering me that theres no sharp beat but ik its not one of the charateristic of the renaissance music
Two things would make this performance go from very good to excellent.
Two - three singers on each part
Microphones away from the singers enough to hear the sound of the room acoustics. Then it could be slightly slower.