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The tuning doesn't seem perfect, but just an issue of live performance. More significant is the insistence on the continental Ockegehem blended tradition of inscrutable architecture- English music was developing its own more articulated style and though this is a Lamentation the expressive idom is slightly out of place. This sounds Flemish or Venetian and doesn't quite do justice to Tallis's detailed insights.

SeanMcHugh00 2 months ago

Give Pro Cantione Antiqua a listen before making up your mind.

TheLotuspPig 3 months ago

the tallis scholars do my favorite rendition....it's absolutely amazing

summerwinds05 6 months ago

I fagiolini!!!! ahahahaahha

newFranzFerencLiszt 1 year ago

This is amazing, beautiful, exquisite Thanks for posting

MrJamest3333 1 year ago

This is the most inspiring performance of the Lamentations I've ever heard. I am a big fan of the work, and commend I Fagiolini on their impeccable rendition!

Comments referring to being out of tune may do well to examine the score and to study Tallis and other period composers to see the way they use dissonances.

This a deceivingly difficult work to imbue with meaning, but they have done so. Lovely, bravo.

pezdyspensr 1 year ago 2

@pezdyspensr check out the Hilliard Ensemble's rendition....

ohschoirdirector 11 months ago

@pezdyspensr check out the Hilliard Ensemble's rendition....IMO, their blend is much better, their tempo is much more profound, and their use of vibrato is much more reserved. Granted, I'm referring to a recording, and this is a live recording.

ohschoirdirector 11 months ago

@ohschoirdirector Thanks for the suggestion! The Hilliard Ensemble is the ultimate in choral refinement. I see what you mean. It is fascinating the difference in approach each group takes. Hearing Hilliard helps me to hear the inaccuracies of I Fagiolini, and yet this video shows a group with a vigorous sense of humanity in their music. Plus, as you have said, live recordings are unforgiving. A recording that seems lie half between I Fagiolini and Hilliard is the Tallis Scholars recording.

pezdyspensr 11 months ago

@pezdyspensr Hilliard is really phenomenal...I had the chance to hear them live and hear them lecture about singing in a quasi-masterclass environment. One of the BEST vocal ensembles I am aware of. That said, you should check out the Gabrieli Consort, the Orlando Consort, Cardinall's Musick, the Oxford Cameretta, the Clerks of Oxenford,...those are the lesser known ensembles compared to the Tallis Scholars, the Sixteen, the Monteverdi Choir, and Stile Antico among others. They're all VERY good!

Wally773MTG 10 months ago

far to many voices out of tune here

TomRAFC 1 year ago

@TomRAFC I don't think you really understand what you're listening to; the tuning seems pretty impeccable to me!

telucis1 5 months ago

@telucis1 what an ignorant statement. i don't hear what you hear so i must evidently not be educated in music? philistine

TomRAFC 5 months ago

@TomRAFC I don't think my statement was ignorant at all because so far, you seem to be the only writer who believes the group's tuning is faulty. Oh mea culpa. You're the only one posting who is educated in music. Some people are not aware of compositional conventions that were acceptable for the period in which a piece was composed. I've read comments on YouTube, mainly with respect to Renaissance era music that illustrate this well. Perhaps the jet engines have affected your hearing.

telucis1 5 months ago

@telucis1 your original statement was very ignorant because you claimed i didn't understand what i was listening to. i am well versed in music and i think they are out which is an opinion i am entitled to thanks.

TomRAFC 5 months ago

Can't tell the difference between you and the King's Singers! Beautiful! I wish I could get a few guys from my choral society to get together and sing this. Exquisite.

chezling 1 year ago