The Tallis Scholars & Peter Philips - Arvo Part: Tintinnabuli (2015)

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Title: Arvo Part: Tintinnabuli
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: Gimell
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log, artwork)
Total Time: 67:05 min
Total Size: 205 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen: O Weisheit
02. Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen: O Adonai
03. Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen: O Spross aus Isais Wurzel
04. Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen: O Schlussel Davids
05. Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen: O Morgenstern
06. Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen: O Konig aller Volker
07. Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen: O Immanuel
08. Magnificat
09. Which Was the Son of ...
10. Nunc dimittis: 1. Nunc dimittis
11. Nunc dimittis: 2. Quia viderunt oculi mei
12. Nunc dimittis: 3. Gloria
13. The Woman with the Alabaster Box: 1. Now when Jesus was in Bethany
14. The Woman with the Alabaster Box: 2. Why trouble ye the woman?
15. The Woman with the Alabaster Box: 3. Verily I say unto you
16. Tribute to Caesar: 1. Then went the Pharisees
17. Tribute to Caesar: 2. And they brought unto him a penny
18. I Am the True Vine
19. Triodion: 1. Introduction (In the name of the Father)
20. Triodion: 2. Ode I (We do homage to Thy pure image)
21. Triodion: 3. Ode II (Unto the Birth-giver of God)
22. Triodion: 4. Ode III (A rule of faith)
23. Triodion: 5. Coda (Glory to the Father)


Some might not pick out Britain's Tallis Scholars as an ideal group for performing the music of Arvo Part, which has been composed mostly with larger choirs in mind. Eastern European groups seem to bring out its resonant effects, and larger British groups like Polyphony have also had success with it. For those who like Part's abstract, holy minimalist style, which seems to create its own world, try out this alternative interpretation. The Tallis Scholars deploy two voices per part in most of the works, resulting in an ensemble of 16 (or 17) for all the pieces except for the slightly smaller and less dense I Am the True Vine (1996). It seems too few, but the singers deliver startlingly edgy purity and, at times, blazing intensity. Sample the two-part Tribute to Caesar (tracks 16 and 17), where the blinding high notes represent not just something new in the world of Part interpretation but something new for the Tallis Scholars as well, who never have had to deploy these sounds in Renaissance polyphony or even in the other contemporary music (such as that of John Tavener, close enough to Part) that they have recorded. There's a nice selection of Part's English-language material here, including the amusing which was the son of…, commissioned by an Icelandic venue and playing on the patronymic (and matronymic) structure of Icelandic names. Gimell's engineering, at the Chapel of Merton College, is ideal. This is not definitive Part, but it is fascinating and often enough thrilling. -- James Manheim