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Article: THE TALLIS SCHOLARS ARE A BIG HIT
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 6, 1988
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Peter Phillips, director of the Tallis Scholars, says he founded
the group to find out what "all that unaccompanied choral music of
the Renaissance was really like."
It was in 1973 that Phillips and a group of amateur singers
gave their first "frankly experimental" concert; five years later
the group went professional.
From the beginning Phillips was aware of the importance of
recordings to the aims and the reputation of the group. They made a
couple of recordings for EMI that the huge conglomerate "didn't
value in the slightest; they didn't care either about us or about
the repertory." So then Phillips and a friend founded their own
company, Gimell, which so far has released 17 ...