Thomas Tallis
Thomas Tallis, ‘The Glories of Tudor Music’, 1974. Cheapo label Music For Pleasure ran a classical label called, wait for it, Classics For Pleasure. Bringing kulcha to the Massif, cheap. Tallis was a Roman Catholic in the 1600s, which was like walking around with a sign saying; ‘Kill me”. However, his music was so sublime that everybody loved it, including Queen Elizabeth I, and so he was excused his ‘crime’ and lived to be 80.
It’s choral music and perfect for Sundays or quiet moments. ‘Spem in Alium’ is the key track. Angels. ‘Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet’, sad angels. Tunes that are almost 500 years old. Sung in cathedrals. There must be a God, surely?!
Any Tallis ‘album’ will do, really, and most will have ‘Spem in Alium’, which should be part of everybody’s cultural life.
Thomas Tallis
Thomas Tallis, ‘The Glories of Tudor Music’, 1974. Cheapo label Music For Pleasure ran a classical label called, wait for it, Classics For Pleasure. Bringing kulcha to the Massif, cheap. Tallis was a Roman Catholic in the 1600s, which was like walking around with a sign saying; ‘Kill me”. However, his music was so sublime that everybody loved it, including Queen Elizabeth I, and so he was excused his ‘crime’ and lived to be 80.
It’s choral music and perfect for Sundays or quiet moments. ‘Spem in Alium’ is the key track. Angels. ‘Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet’, sad angels. Tunes that are almost 500 years old. Sung in cathedrals. There must be a God, surely?!
Any Tallis ‘album’ will do, really, and most will have ‘Spem in Alium’, which should be part of everybody’s cultural life.