home All News open_in_new Full Article

The Tallis Scholars review – inspired pairing of Palestrina and Pärt brings shining warmth and clarity

St George’s BristolThe consummate vocal ensemble beautifully highlighted symbolic connections between the 16th-century Italian composer and soon-to-be 90 Arvo PärtThis year marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of Palestrina, the Italian composer who took the name of his native town, just east of Rome, now part of the metropolitan city. In director Peter Phillips’s inspired pairing of Palestrina with the music of Arvo Pärt in the year of his 90th birthday, there was a particular frisson in knowing that in January, the Tallis Scholars had sung this very programme in the cathedral of Sant’Agapito Martire in Palestrina, where the young Giovanni Pierluigi may have been a chorister and was certainly organist from the age of 19.Phillips has described Palestrina as the “most consummate of renaissance composers”: it may surely be said that the Tallis Scholars are the consummate vocal ensemble. Opening with his motet Surge Illuminare, the 10 Scholars immediately brought a shining warmth t...


today 4 d. ago attach_file Events

attach_file Events
attach_file Sport
attach_file Politics
attach_file Politics
attach_file Economics
attach_file Science
attach_file Events
attach_file Politics
attach_file Politics
attach_file Politics
attach_file Economics
attach_file Events
attach_file Events
attach_file Events
attach_file Politics
attach_file Events
attach_file Politics
attach_file Politics
attach_file Events
attach_file Events


ID: 2809915131
Add Watch Country

arrow_drop_down