COMPOSERS: Tallis
LABELS: Signum
WORKS: Puer natus est nobis Mass
PERFORMER: natus est nobis’; Gaude gloriosa; Suscipe quaeso; Celeste organum; Puer natus est nobis, etc; Chapelle du Roi/Alistair Dixon
CATALOGUE NO: SIGCD 003 (distr. Priory)
The Chapelle du Roi (a British group) have a fresh, clean sound – a standard virtue in early music performance. But their moving, virtuosic control of dynamic shading is new: it transfigures the overlapping textures of the Agnus Dei from the Puer natus est nobis Mass and even excuses the slight shrillness of Suscipe quaeso. Anthony Pryer
Tallis: Puer natus est nobis Mass
The Chapelle du Roi (a British group) have a fresh, clean sound – a standard virtue in early music performance. But their moving, virtuosic control of dynamic shading is new: it transfigures the overlapping textures of the Agnus Dei from the Puer natus est nobis Mass and even excuses the slight shrillness of Suscipe quaeso. Anthony Pryer
Our rating
4
Published: January 20, 2012 at 3:10 pm