Nico Muhly: No Resting Place The Tallis Scholars & Peter Phillips

• Nico Muhly (b. 1981): A Glorious Creature:
• 1 Muhly: A Glorious Creature 09:12
• Recordare, Domine:
• 2 Muhly: Recordare, Domine 06:25
• Marrow:
• 3 Muhly: Marrow 03:05
• Prosperitie:
• 4 Muhly: Prosperitie 01:45
• Rough Notes:
• 5 Muhly: Rough Notes 09:19
• No Resting Place:
• 6 Muhly: No Resting Place: I. Incipit lamentatio; ALEPH. Quomodo sedet 04:31
• 7 Muhly: No Resting Place: II. BETH. Plorans ploravit 05:23
• 8 Muhly: No Resting Place: III. GHIMEL. Migravit Judas 03:08
• 9 Muhly: No Resting Place: IV. DALETH. Viae Sion lugent 05:45
• 10 Muhly: No Resting Place: V. HE. Facti sunt hostes 05:53
• Total Runtime 54:26

Info for Nico Muhly: No Resting Place

Nico Muhly and The Tallis Scholars present ‘No Resting Place’, a collection of world premiere recordings of works that Muhly wrote for The Tallis Scholars over the last 10 years, by invitation of their director Peter Phillips. Phillips says that Muhly ‘immediately understood our particular sound. A succession of masterpieces followed, each as powerful as the last.’ The title work, No Resting Place, is a setting of Jeremiah’s Lamentations, interspersed with contemporary interviews with people from the Windrush generation. Recordare, Domine also sets texts from Lamentations, while Marrow is a setting of Psalm 63. Rough Notes, using cold textures, austere counterpoint and unstable harmonies, draws from Captain Scott’s diary on his doomed mission to the Antarctic. Prosperitie was written to celebrate Peter Phillips’ 70th birthday, and A Glorious Creature praises the glory of the soul. This album marks the start of a new collaboration between The Tallis Scholars and Linn.

The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips,director

Peter Phillips
has dedicated his career to the research and performance of Renaissance polyphony, and to the perfecting of choral sound. Having won a scholarship to Oxford in 1972, he gained experience as an undergraduate in conducting small vocal ensembles, already experimenting with the rarer parts of the repertoire. He founded The Tallis Scholars in 1973, with whom he has now appeared in over 2,200 concerts and made over 60 discs, encouraging interest in polyphony all over the world. As a result of this commitment Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars have done more than any other group to establish the sacred vocal music of the Renaissance as one of the great repertoires of Western classical music.

Peter Phillips also conducts other specialist ensembles. He is currently working with the BBC Singers, the Netherlands Chamber Choir, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and the Choeur de Chambre de Namur. He is patron of the choirs of Merton College (Oxford), Sansara (London), El Leon de Oro (Spain), and of the Festivals of Portsmouth and Clifton; he also hosts the annual Tallis Scholars Summer Course in Avila (Spain). In 2014 he launched the London International A Cappella Choir Competition in St John's Smith Square, attracting choirs from all over the world.

In addition to conducting, Peter Phillips is well-known as a writer. For 33 years he contributed a regular music column (as well as one, more briefly, on cricket) to The Spectator. In 1995 he became the owner and Publisher of The Musical Times, the oldest continuously published music journal in the world. His first book, English Sacred Music 1549-1649, was published by Gimell in 1991, while his second, What We Really Do, appeared in 2013. During 2018 BBC Radio 3 will broadcast his view of Renaissance polyphony, in a series of six hour-long programmes.

In 2005 Peter Phillips was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, a decoration intended to honour individuals who have contributed to the understanding of French culture in the world. In 2008 Peter began an association with Merton College, Oxford, where he helped to found the chapel choir, and where he is a Bodley Fellow.

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