OT: Tallis' Spem in Alium


Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 10:05:13 +0200
From: Ferenc Riesz <riesz at mfa dot kfki dot hu>
Subject: OT: Tallis' Spem in Alium

Mr Tea wrote about Tallis' Spem in Alium:

>BUT... if you follow up this recommendation, take care over which recording
>you buy. The best I've heard is a 1974 performance on EMI by David Wulstan
>and 'The Clerkes of Oxenford'. A 1985 Gimell release by Peter Phillips and
>the Tallis Scholars comes a respectable second, while the one to avoid is a
>70s Decca recording with the choir of Kings College, Cambridge, which is
>just a florid, overblown mess (musta been cut with something).

Another very good - if not the best! - recording is Utopia Triumphans by the Huelgas Ensemble on Sony Classical with other many-part renaissance choral pieces. Highly recommended! See

http://www.sonyclassical.com/music/66261/index.html

Ferenc

UI Any official European tour dates...? I heard from many independent (not official) sources that Fripp et al. will perform on 15 June in Budapest with Syrius and Focus!!!!!!



Mike Stok