The Best of the Renaissance
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Composer: Gregorio AllegriComposer: William Byrd
Composer: Manuel Cardoso
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo
Composer: Josquin Desprez
Composer: Orlande de Lassus
Composer: Alonso Lobo
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Composer: Thomas Tallis
Composer: John Taverner
Conductor: Peter Phillips
Performer: The Tallis Scholars
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-06-15
Music Label: Philips
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Miserere
- Kyrie
- Gloria
- Credo
- Sanctus - Benedictus
- Agnus Dei
- Kyrie
- Gloria
- Credo
- Sanctus - Benedictus
- Agnus Dei 1 - 2 - 3
- Kyrie
- Gloria
- Credo
- Sanctus - Benedictus
- Agnus Dei 1 - 2
- [Unspecified] Ave Maria
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Free Music Review: interesting miserere
Hit: 5 Stars
I've had the King's College Choir performance of the Miserere for years before I came across this Tallis Scholar performance. The two performances are very different, of course. To wit: Tallis Scholars is a mixed choir, the King's College Choir is male; the Tallis Scholars are adults, King's College has boy and men singers. But between the two, it is the King's College Choir that gives the sublime performance of Allegri's Miserere. Everything in their performance is exquisitely perfect. The Best of the Renaissance is a wonderful sampler of music from the Renaissance Period, but if you're looking for the definitive recording of Allegri's Miserere, I suggest you get the King's College Choir.
The Best of the Renaissance Poster
As hateful and usually untrue as most "Best of" collections are, this one is the real thing. You actually do get two hours and 20 minutes of Renaissance music performed so exquisitely, so correctly, and so passionately that it's as if an entire era in music makes itself understood through these CDs. The Tallis Scholars are as good as it gets in this repertoire. In addition to getting Allegri's gorgeous Miserere, you'll find Thomas Tallis's 40-part (40!) Spem in alium, some wonderfully weird and dissonant Responsories by Gesualdo, Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli (the "how-to" piece of the Renaissance popes, who demanded that the words be understood), and various other works. This stuff is like a finely woven tapestry and should be listened to bits at a time--it's amazingly rich and worth it. --Robert LevineClassical Music CDs
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