Nico Muhly: No Resting Place The Tallis Scholars & Peter Phillips

• Nico Muhly (b. 1981): A Glorious Creature:
• 1 Muhly: A Glorious Creature 09:12
• Recordare, Domine:
• 2 Muhly: Recordare, Domine 06:25
• Marrow:
• 3 Muhly: Marrow 03:05
• Prosperitie:
• 4 Muhly: Prosperitie 01:45
• Rough Notes:
• 5 Muhly: Rough Notes 09:19
• No Resting Place:
• 6 Muhly: No Resting Place: I. Incipit lamentatio; ALEPH. Quomodo sedet 04:31
• 7 Muhly: No Resting Place: II. BETH. Plorans ploravit 05:23
• 8 Muhly: No Resting Place: III. GHIMEL. Migravit Judas 03:08
• 9 Muhly: No Resting Place: IV. DALETH. Viae Sion lugent 05:45
• 10 Muhly: No Resting Place: V. HE. Facti sunt hostes 05:53
• Total Runtime 54:26

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Nico Muhly und The Tallis Scholars präsentieren »No Resting Place« – eine Sammlung von Weltersteinspielungen mit Werken, die Muhly in den letzten zehn Jahren auf Einladung des Ensembleleiters Peter Phillips eigens für The Tallis Scholars komponiert hat. Peter Phillips sagt über ihn: „Er hat unseren ganz eigenen Klang sofort verstanden. Es folgte ein Meisterwerk nach dem anderen – jedes ebenso stark wie das vorherige.“ Das titelgebende Stück No Resting Place vertont Passagen aus den Klageliedern Jeremias und verwebt sie mit aktuellen Interviews von Menschen der Windrush-Generation. Recordare, Domine greift ebenfalls auf Texte aus den Klageliedern zurück, während Marrow den 63. Psalm vertont. Rough Notes – mit kühlen Klangflächen, strenger Polyphonie und schwebenden Harmonien – basiert auf den Tagebucheinträgen von Captain Scott während seiner verhängnisvollen Antarktis-Expedition. Prosperitie entstand aus Anlass von Peter Phillips’ 70. Geburtstag, und A Glorious Creature besingt die Herrlichkeit der Seele. Mit diesem Album beginnt eine neue Zusammenarbeit zwischen The Tallis Scholars und dem Label Linn.

The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips,Leitung

The Tallis Scholars
Over five decades of performance and a catalogue of award-winning recordings for Gimell, Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars have done more than any other group to establish sacred vocal music of the Renaissance as one of the great repertoires of Western classical music.

They have sought to bring Renaissance works to a wider audience in churches, cathedrals and venues on every continent on the planet except Antarctica! These include the Royal Albert Hall, the Sistine Chapel, the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall New York, the Philharmonic Hall Berlin, Saint Mark's Venice, Seoul Arts Centre Korea, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre London, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall, Beijing Concert Hall, Megaron Athens and the Opera House Sydney.

The Tallis Scholars continue to develop their exclusive sound, praised by reviewers for its supple clarity and tone, and to bring fresh interpretations to music by contemporary as well as past composers, such as Pärt, Tavener, Whitacre, Muhly and Jackson. ​

"one of the UK’s greatest cultural exports" - BBC Radio 3

Peter Phillips​
I got the polyphony bug when an undergraduate at Oxford in 1973. An ideal choral sound got fixed in my head at that time, and I've spent all the years since then trying to recapture it. Hence The Tallis Scholars. I haven't done much else of creative importance - no novels or films (yet) - just a lot of concerts and recordings, and endless travelling. This in turn has piqued an interest in exploring the cuisines of the world, and even some of the languages, though rarely the right ones. A thorough grasp of Latin would have been good; Arabic has proved of limited value as a tool for promoting Christian sacred music. ​

Other daft things I've done include: starting a choral foundation in Oxford's oldest and most beautiful college chapel; writing a column in the London Spectator on music for over 33 years, and on cricket for one; encouraging my fellow citizens to eat horse; learning to fly small aeroplanes; carrying rare foodstuffs (especially horse) around the world in my luggage, and visiting a restaurant near my house so often that I now have my own table there. The best thing I've done is marry Caroline Trevor and help to bring up three children who, to my lasting relief and delight, have grown into very civilised people.

"Speaking of birds, it was also wonderful to glimpse Peter Phillips’s conducting: hands opening as if setting free a dove, or closing to punctuate with dotting-the-i’s exactitude. I found myself wishing I could get a choir’s-eye view to witness Phillips’ complete – lifelong – inhabiting of this music." - The Observer, September 2015

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