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The Complete Works - Volume 1
Thomas Tallis

Chapelle du Roi

The Complete Works - Volume 1

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212000120
Catnr: SIGCD 001
Release date: 01 March 2004
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Signum Classics
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0635212000120
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SIGCD 001
Release date
01 March 2004
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About the album

This album is the first in a series of nine covering the complete works of Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585). Not for nothing is Tallis known as the "father of church music" – with his colleagues at the Chapel Royal he created most of the church music genres that we take for granted today.

Volume one in the series of nine contains much of the music that Tallis wrote during the reign of Henry VIII. The two early votive antiphons Ave Dei and Ave Rosa open the album and it concludes with one of Tallis's masterpieces Salve Intemerata.

Unusually for an English composer of the time, Tallis wrote a "parody" mass based on material from Salve Intemerata. Also included are two beautiful miniatures not previously recorded – Alleluia: Ora pro nobis and Euge celi porta. This was the first disc to be recorded by Chapelle du Roi and was Signum Records' debut disc in February 1997.

Volume 1 in een serie met alle werken van Tallis
Dit album is het eerste deel in een negendelige serie die het volledige oeuvre van Thomas Tallis (circa 1505-1585) omvat. Tallis staat niet voor niets bekend als de ‘vader van de kerkmuziek’: met zijn collega’s van de Chapel Royal creëerde hij het merendeel van de kerkmuziekgenres die vandaag de dag vanzelfsprekend zijn.

Het eerste volume bevat veel van de muziek die Tallis tijdens de regeerperiode van Henry VIII componeerde. Het opent met de twee vroege votieve antifonen Ave Dei en Ave Rosa en besluit met een van zijn meesterwerken, Salve Intemerata. Tallis schreef een ‘parodiemis’ gebaseerd op materiaal uit dit werk, wat in zijn tijd ongebruikelijk was voor een Engels componist. Het album bevat bovendien twee prachtige miniaturen die niet eerder zijn opgenomen: Alleluia: Ora pro nobis en Euge celi porta.

Chapelle du Roi specialiseert zich in de uitvoering van geestelijke muziek uit de Renaissance. Elk jaar levert het ensemble degelijke concerten en opnames, waarin authentieke uitvoeringen van voornamelijk onbekend repertoire dat wat extra aandacht verdient centraal staan. Dit is hun eerste album.

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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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