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Article: CLASSICAL: IN CONCERT THE TALLIS SCHOLARS / PETER PHILLIPS St John's, Smith Square THE SIXTEEN / HARRY CHRISTOPHERS St John's, Smith Square London
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 27, 2002
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When one is confronted by two of our most highly praised and much-
recorded choral groups, both excelling in 16th-century repertoire on
successive evenings at the same venue, the urge to compare and
contrast is difficult to resist. And to suggest that The Tallis
Scholars are the more consistently purist in their approach, while
The Sixteen are more luxuriantly various, would be no more than to
hint at the differences.
No doubt it is a tribute to the vision of Peter Phillips that the
core line-up of his Tallis Scholars has remained so faithful since he
founded them almost 30 years ago. Their principal virtues have always
been precision of intonation and absolute clarity of texture - rarely ...