Tallis: Spem in alium

by The Tallis Scholars

Tallis: Spem in alium cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 October 1985
  • Label: Gimell
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 43:06
  • Community rating: 4.28/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Peter Phillips recorded Tallis's forty part motet at Merton College Chapel with his singers disposed in eight spatially separated choirs of five voices, matching the work's eight choir layout for stereo. The program fills out the motet with 'Sancte Deus', both settings of 'Salvator Mundi', 'Gaude Gloriosa' and 'Loquebantur Variis Linguis'.

Genres

Descriptors: a-cappella, choral, polyphonic, massive, soaring

Tracklist

  1. Tallis: Spem in Alium - 1. Spem in Alium (4:57)
  2. Tallis: Spem in Alium - 2. in Tribulatione Dimittis (2:24)
  3. Tallis: Spem in Alium - 3. Respice (0:59)
  4. Tallis: Spem in Alium - 4. Respice (Repeat) (1:27)
  5. Tallis: Sancte Deus - 1. Sancte Deus, Sancte Fortis (0:49)
  6. Tallis: Sancte Deus - 2. Sancte Et Immortalis (0:56)
  7. Tallis: Sancte Deus - 3. Nunc, Christe, Te Petimus (0:55)
  8. Tallis: Sancte Deus - 4. Qui Venisti Redimere Perditos (0:32)
  9. Tallis: Sancte Deus - 5. Noli Damnare Redemptos (0:34)
  10. Tallis: Sancte Deus - 6. Quia Per Crucem Tuam (0:38)
  11. Tallis: Sancte Deus - 7. Amen (0:48)
  12. Tallis: Salvator Mundi, Salva Nos I (2:20)
  13. Tallis: Salvator Mundi, Salva Nos II (2:35)
  14. Tallis: Gaude Gloriosa - 1. Gaude Gloriosa Dei Mater (1:51)
  15. Tallis: Gaude Gloriosa - 2. Gaude, Virgo Maria, Cui Angelicae Turmae (1:56)
  16. Tallis: Gaude Gloriosa - 3. Gaude, Concivis in Caelis Sanctorum (1:22)
  17. Tallis: Gaude Gloriosa - 4. Gaude, Flos Florum Speciosissima (1:42)
  18. Tallis: Gaude Gloriosa - 5. Gaude, Virgo Maria, Quam Dignam Laude (1:58)
  19. Tallis: Gaude Gloriosa - 6. Gaude, Virgo Maria, Quae Corpore Et Anima (1:42)
  20. Tallis: Gaude Gloriosa - 7. Gaude, Maria, Intercessorum Adiutrix (1:08)
  21. Tallis: Gaude Gloriosa - 8. Gaude, Sancta Virgo Maria (1:42)
  22. Tallis: Gaude Gloriosa - 9. Gaude, Virgo Maria, Christi Benedicta Mater (3:19)
  23. Tallis: Miserere Nostri (2:30)
  24. Tallis: Loquebantur Variis Linguis - 1. Loquebantur Variis Linguis (1:45)
  25. Tallis: Loquebantur Variis Linguis - 2. Repleti Sunt Omnes (1:02)
  26. Tallis: Loquebantur Variis Linguis - 3. Gloria Patri Et Filio (1:02)

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