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The Complete Works - Volume 7
Thomas Tallis

Chapelle du Roi

The Complete Works - Volume 7

Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212002926
Catnr: SIGCD 029
Release date: 01 April 2004
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Signum Classics
UPC
0635212002926
Catalogue number
SIGCD 029
Release date
01 April 2004
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About the album

Queen Elizabeth’s reign (1558-1603) was a golden age for the arts. England enjoyed a growing cultural exchange with continental Europe. England’s rich, but essentially conservative pre-Reformation heritage was infused with increasing continental influence and innovations.

Elizabeth I was the fourth monarch to sit on the throne in Thomas Tallis’s lifetime. From the outset of her reign Elizabeth allowed considerable freedom of practice and belief. She was firmly in favour of a vernacular liturgy for the general population, although in her own chapels she preferred a more lavish ceremony to music.

Tallis had witnessed the wholesale destruction of much of England’s church music tradition, however the ever adaptable composer met the challenges of a new liturgy, its new styles and genres, with the imaginative force of a man half his age.

The years of Reformation, and Elizabeth’s protestant settlement, freed the Latin-texted tradition of liturgical propriety, allowing composers to reinvigorate the language and harness it to new, expressive and personal ends. This recording presents Tallis’s Elizabethan Latin motets (which number fifteen). The mighty occasional piece, the forty-voice motet Spem in alium, concludes the album.

Tallis' Elizabethaanse Latijnse motetten meesterlijk uitgevoerd door Chapelle du Roi, onder leiding van Alistair Dixon
Queen Elizabeths bewind (1558-1603) was een gouden tijd voor de kunsten. Engeland genoot een groeiende culturele uitwisseling met het vasteland van Europa. Engelands rijke, maar in wezen conservatieve erfgoed van voor de reformatie werd doordrenkt met de toenemende continentale invloed en innovaties.

Elizabeth I was de vierde monarch op de troon in het leven van Thomas Tallis. Ze was een sterk voorstander van een liturgie in de volkstaal voor de algemene bevolking, maar in haar eigen kapellen had ze liever uitbundige ceremonies wat betreft muziek. Tallis was getuige van de grootschalige vernietiging van een groot deel van de traditie van Engelse kerkmuziek, maar de componist ging de uitdagingen aan van een nieuwe liturgie, nieuwe stijlen en nieuwe genres.

De jaren van de Reformatie en Elizabeths protestantse nederzetting zorgden ervoor dat de Latijnse taal niet langer enkel tot de liturgie behoorde, waardoor componisten de taal nieuw leven inbliezen en het benutten voor nieuwe, expressieve en persoonlijke doeleinden. Dit album presenteert Tallis' vijftien Elizabethaanse Latijnse motetten, uitgevoerd door Chapelle du Roi onder leiding van Alistair Dixon. Het album sluit af met het veertigstemmige motet Spem in Alium.

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Thomas Tallis

Thomas Tallis was an English composer who occupies a primary place in anthologies of English choral music, and is considered one of England's greatest composers. He is honoured for his original voice in English musicianship. No contemporary portrait of Tallis survives: that painted by Gerard Vandergucht (illustration), dates from 150 years after Tallis died, and there is no reason to suppose that it is a likeness. In a rare existing copy of his black letter signature, the composer spelled his last name 'Tallys.' Tallis is known for his work with William Byrd. He started to teach the much younger Byrd at the Chapel Royal in London. Later, they were both appointed as organists of the Chapel. 
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Thomas Tallis was an English composer who occupies a primary place in anthologies of English choral music, and is considered one of England's greatest composers. He is honoured for his original voice in English musicianship. No contemporary portrait of Tallis survives: that painted by Gerard Vandergucht (illustration), dates from 150 years after Tallis died, and there is no reason to suppose that it is a likeness. In a rare existing copy of his black letter signature, the composer spelled his last name "Tallys." Tallis is known for his work with William Byrd. He started to teach the much younger Byrd at the Chapel Royal in London. Later, they were both appointed as organists of the Chapel.


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