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Composer:
Thomas Tallis

Artist(s):
Gabrieli Consort & Players

Conductor:
Paul McCreesh

Background: With their compelling concept album The Road to Paradise, Paul McCreesh takes us on a medieval pilgrimage. A cappella choral music by English composers of the 16th is contrasted with 20th-century composers - this uniquely depicts the desire for spiritual enlightenment that was the driving force behind the medieval pilgrimage.

In medieval times, making a pilgrimage to a holy place was the ambition of many Christians, for whom it was regarded as the symbolic enactment of a lifetime's journey to a sacred resting place, undertaken through considerable physical effort.

CATALOGUE NR: 4776605
RECORD LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 18-Jun-2007

COMPOSER: Thomas Tallis  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: The Road to Paradise
TRACKS: Miserere nostri (Thomas Tallis). Clangat pastor in tuba - Responsory & Prose for the feast of St Thomas a Becket (Trad). Ave maria - motet (Robert Parsons). A Hymn to the Virgin (Benjamin Britten). Christe qui lux es (William Byrd). Media vita (John Sheppard). A Good-Night (Richard Rodney Bennett). Song for Athene (John Tavener). In pace in idipsum (John Sheppard). Nunc Dimittis (Gustav Holst). Bring us O Lord God (William Henry Harris). Take him earth for cherishing - motet on the death of President Kennedy (Herbert Howells). In paradisum (Gregorian Chant).
CONDUCTOR: Paul McCreesh
ARTISTS: Gabrieli Consort & Players      

'BBC Music Magazine 2008 Awards Nomination - the Jury says : McCreesh’s exquisite programme follows the soul’s journey from life through death into Paradise, finding resonances of ancient plainchant in later choral settings. Deeply-felt memorials to JF Kennedy (Howells) and Linda McCartney (Rodney Bennett) contrast with luminous performances of Tallis, Byrd and Britten. And the quality of singing is mesmerising.' - Aug-2007 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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