The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips – Arvo Pärt: Tintinnabuli (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips – Arvo Pärt: Tintinnabuli (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:03 minutes | 1023 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Gimell Records

Given that the music of Arvo Pärt is among a vanishingly small group by whom it is possible to follow a clear line back to ‘early’ music, The Tallis Scholars are, on paper, the best group imaginable to record his music. Peter Phillips has disagreed in the past with the idea that there is a direct link between the two – it is certainly the case that the stasis that underpins Pärt’s harmony creates a kind of timelessness that is less, not more, in need of historical context – but either way, the purity of The Tallis Scholars’ sound provides the perfect scaffolding for the pieces on this disc. Not least because the bell-like, note-clustering Tintinnabuli music of Pärt (illustrated here in its most basic form in the Magnificat) is there specifically to address the issue of perception, time and history.

The argument about whether Pärt is a composer affected by context or simply creating music out of a vacuum continues, but in many ways its calm equilibrium is an engaging mystery that could only be considered regressive if viewed in its dimmest light. And in their performance The Tallis Scholars have presented their chosen repertoire in the way they have always done best – as a sound world of profound beauty. –Caroline Gill, Gramophone

Tracklist:

01. The Tallis Scholars – Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen: 1. O Weisheit (01:26)
02. The Tallis Scholars – Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen: 2. O Adonai (02:28)
03. The Tallis Scholars – Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen: 3. O Spross aus Isais Wurzel (01:00)
04. The Tallis Scholars – Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen: 4. O Schlüssel Davids (02:01)
05. The Tallis Scholars – Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen: 5. O Morgenstern (02:02)
06. The Tallis Scholars – Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen: 6. O König aller Völker (01:10)
07. The Tallis Scholars – Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen: 7. O Immanuel (03:17)
08. The Tallis Scholars – Magnificat (07:13)
09. The Tallis Scholars – Which Was the Son of … (07:37)
10. The Tallis Scholars – Nunc dimittis: 1. Nunc dimittis (01:44)
11. The Tallis Scholars – Nunc dimittis: 2. Quia viderunt oculi mei (02:47)
12. The Tallis Scholars – Nunc dimittis: 3. Gloria (01:18)
13. The Tallis Scholars – The Woman with the Alabaster Box: 1. Now when Jesus was in Bethany (02:27)
14. The Tallis Scholars – The Woman with the Alabaster Box: 2. Why trouble ye the woman? (01:16)
15. The Tallis Scholars – The Woman with the Alabaster Box: 3. Verily I say unto you (01:45)
16. The Tallis Scholars – Tribute to Caesar: 1. Then went the Pharisees (03:42)
17. The Tallis Scholars – Tribute to Caesar: 2. And they brought unto him a penny (02:47)
18. The Tallis Scholars – I Am the True Vine (07:10)
19. The Tallis Scholars – Triodion: 1. Introduction (In the name of the Father) (00:22)
20. The Tallis Scholars – Triodion: 2. Ode I (We do homage to Thy pure image) (03:34)
21. The Tallis Scholars – Triodion: 3. Ode II (Unto the Birth-giver of God) (04:37)
22. The Tallis Scholars – Triodion: 4. Ode III (A rule of faith) (04:12)
23. The Tallis Scholars – Triodion: 5. Coda (Glory to the Father) (00:59)

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