#speminalium

“From early 90s to early noughties, HMV released a lot of excellent music through their own HMV Classics label. I bought several CDs from this collection, available only from their own stores. It was an economical way of listening to a wide range of excellent recordings, before the world of streaming services and the sad demise of HMV itself. This may well have been one of the first that I bought, but I really can’t remember. . It’s an excellent recording, with superstars from the world of baroque and renaissance music such as Gregorio Allegri, Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons and Henry Purcell. Then there are other, more recent composers, fulfilling the “other spiritual classics” from the album title: Faure, Poulenc and Durufle making up the French contingent, the Englishmen Edward Elgar and John Tavener, and then two very recent British composers, Elizabeth Poston (the only female composer here) and Geoffrey Burgon, who I discovered (via the magic of Wikipedia) also composed the music for Monty Python’s Life of Brian. . That might sound a right old hotchpotch of musical styles, but the compilation works exquisitely, taking Allegri’s Miserere mei as it’s soundboard, bookended by the equally gorgeous Spem in alium by Tallis. Elgar’s Ave verum corpus and Faure’s Pie Jesu from his Requiem are highlights in between, but there’s something for everyone here. That is, if by spiritual you mean from the Christian faith. I know of few other compilations that can successfully cover 450 years of music on one CD...” . FOR FULL REVIEW & PLAYLIST CLICK LINK IN PROFILE: . #allegrimiserere #speminalium #thomastallis #johntavener #hmvclassics #baroquemusic #renaissancemusic #classicalmusic #religiousmusic #nowplaying #randomrecordreview https://www.instagram.com/p/B_AobJnJ7sp/?igshid=1a4bnj10v4zt1

Thomas Tallis’ rousing and beautiful Spem In Alium. 

Travelling back in time to the 16th century with Thomas Tallis. 

I absolutely love Spem in Alium and would never want anyone to ruin the original version but this is so amazing and beautiful. 

I was able to partially automate doing this, so it's slightly less wasted effort than it looks like, honest. It's a pdf file, so I've put it up on fluffhouse here.

The Kings Singers perform Tallis' Spem in Alium. 6 singers, 40 parts -- and a bunch of multi-tracking. This is my 2,000th Tumblr post.