Gramophone Magazine
November 2019
Editor's Choice

The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips

Despres: Missa Mater Patris
Despres: Missa 'Da Pacem'

“Our project to record all of Josquin’s Masses now runs into controversy. One of Josquin’s greatest compositions, Missa Mater Patris, is so unusual that some scholars have questioned its authorship. With Da pacem these questions become more pressing. Having been thought during the 19th century to be the most typical and perfect of all Josquin’s Masses, it has recently been shown to be by the little-known Noel Bauldeweyn. Or is it?” (Peter Phillips)

"Phillips’s albums with The Tallis Scholars continue to sparkle and inform...There are several outstandingly well-controlled spans of two-voice polyphony. Listen especially for the way these singers glide through the exotic chord-chains in the Sanctus: I can’t help but be reminded of the confident sweep of the Andrews Sisters. This is glorious stuff indeed." - Gramophone Magazine, November 2019.