{"product_id":"multi-artistes_spem-in-alium_2015_disco-virgin-music-group","title":"Spem in alium","description":"Ce CD constitutes the last volume of the panorama offered by the abundant production of sacred music by Tallis, the prestigious vocal ensemble conducted by Andrew Carwood. It includes in particular the most monumental and audacious piece by the composer, \"Spem in alium\", in its two successive elaborations (Latin text then English - Tallis was indeed the first composer who, while being Catholic, tackled the writing of sacred music in the \"profane\" language). This work employs a truly astonishing device for the time: 40 voices divided into eight choirs called upon one after the other, in one direction, in the reverse direction, all together, or in more or less large quantities according to variable combinations. This device desired by the composer contributes to a kind of ecstatic intoxication - which would almost resemble that felt when listening to certain non-Western music. All oppositions (high\/low, light\/dark, simplicity\/complexity, horizontality\/verticality) are abolished, without anything being confusing, in a different clarity, in a celebration of resonance and vibration where multiple harmonics emerge. The music appears both simple and complex, austere and heady, spiritual and corporeal. Ethereal and yet always earthly. Explosante fixe. The beauty of the voices, the precision of the attacks, this kind of stripping down in the magnificence and grandeur that the ensemble and its conductor can almost magically create transports the listener while pinning them in place. The interpretation of the other works (more modest, and which recall in certain passages - even when the text is in English - Gregorian recitation) is a model of perfection that wonderfully highlights the richness made of transparency, simplicity, and rectitude of these pages so characteristic of the English Renaissance (see notably the Psalm Tunes track 5, the Preces and Responses track 6, the O sacrum convivium track 13). Everything is splendidly chiseled, and this, without any ostentation. A truly exceptional recording. (Bertrand Abraham)","brand":"Multi-artistes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57752922915160,"sku":null,"price":20150413.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/0095115051320.jpg?v=1784621720","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/multi-artistes_spem-in-alium_2015_disco-virgin-music-group","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}