Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert given in Oxford by The Tallis Scholars and director Peter Phillips, which features Lamentations by Phinot and Palestrina alongside three brand new settings by the winners of this year's National Centre for Early Music's Young Composers' Award.
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I always enjoy a good Lamentation, and must admit I had not heard of Phinot before.
The young composers' items were interesting (and well done Tallis Scholars for tackling them so well). I thought the youngest (under 18) was the most original. The two older joint winners elicited some very beautiful but somewhat predictable sounds...a sort of amalgam of Whitacre, Weir and Part with (especially in the last one) a whiff of MacMillan. -
I can recommend a good recording of the Phinot!
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