The Early Music Show - Renaissance Polyphony

Lucie Skeaping is joined by Peter Phillips and the Tallis Scholars to explore some of the defining qualities and the ethos of Renaissance polyphony. She asks what has prompted their enthusiasm for it and learns how working with this music has encouraged the group to find a distinctive sound and performing methodology. Including excerpts from some of the Tallis Scholars many recordings. Peter Phillips and his group have specialised in the performance of Renaissance polyphony since 1973. They have built a reputation for bringing some of the greatest European church music of the 16th and 17th centuries onto the concert platform. Playlist: Tallis: O Sacrum Convivium Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips (conductor) GIMELL CDGIM 998 Track: 6 Taverner: Western Wind Mass - Sanctus and Benedictus Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips (conductor) GIMELL CDGIM 027 Track: 3 Palestrina: Surge, illuminare Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips (conductor) GIMELL CDGIM 994 Track: 2 Tallis: Lamentations 1 Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips (conductor) GIMELL CDGIM 996 Track: 2 Allegri: Miserere Roy Goodman (treble) Choir of Kings College, Cambridge David Willcocks (conductor) DECCA 466 373-2 Track: 1 Tallis: Salvator mundi Clerkes of Oxenford David Wulstan (conductor) CALLIOPE CAL9623 Track: 7 Palestrina: Gloria (Missa Papae Marcelli) Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips (conductor) GIMELL CDGIM 041 Track: 4 William Mundy: Adolescentulus sum ergo Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips (conductor) GIMELL CDGIM 998 Track: 7 Victoria: Sanctus and Benedictus (Requiem) Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips (conductor) GIMELL CDGIM 012 Track: 6 Elizabeth Edwards: Arise (excerpt) Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips (conductor) (BBC recording from York Early Music Festival 2009).