I attended the Rimini workshops too, unfortunately for a few years. They were incredibly wonderful weeks, full immersion in music. Which gave me so much happiness. Thank you Peter, Ghislaine and all my singing mates.

Il Figliol Prodigo. 1/4...? 1/2!!! I know it's very very late but... thank you, Peter

In terms of music, it wasn't Henry VIII who wrecked everything: there was plenty of good church music written throughout most of his reign. As I understand it, until quite late in his reign Henry didn't even want any major changes in the old Catholic liturgy; he just wanted to be the head of his own national church so that he could decide for himself how to partake of the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. ;-) (Indeed, Thomas Tallis got his first really big job as a direct result of the dissolution of the monasteries: Canterbury Cathedral had been an abbey church, and after the abbey was dissolved, Tallis was hired to put together a proper cathedral choir and a repertory for it.) No, the ones who wrecked things were the Protestant ideologues who ran England under the child Edward VI, Henry's son. They're the ones who smashed up religious statuary, demolished church organs, and destroyed an estimated 90 percent or more of the sacred polyphony. England had been so prolific with and proficient in church music that Erasmus over in Rotterdam kvetched about it in print*, and almost all of it is lost. - - - - - *"In college or monastery it is still the same; music, nothing but music. ... They have so much of it in England that the monks attend to nothing else. A set of creatures who ought to be lamenting their sins fancy they can please God by gurgling in their throats."

@@mwnyc3976 Logic of Henry and Cranmer. Get your Archbishop to grant an annulment declaring your marriage void and that it never happened and then execute Anne Boleyn for adultery.

I’m not hearing it; at this point the Gloria has thinned out to just the Triplex (treble), Contratenor, and Sextus (bass) voices, and in the old Tudor Church Music score the Scholars are singing pretty much exactly what’s on the page (e.g. see page 4 of the score at imslp.org/wiki/Missa_Corona_Spinea_(Taverner%2C_John) )

@@Xanthe_Cat it occurs at bar 76, at the last crotchet of the contratenor line. You'll hear a brief background melody where the line goes up instead of a step down as in the score. It happens at almost exactly 3:56 in the video and most audible if you're following the CT line.

This is the stuff of legend! A lost modern recording? Are you sure? Was it ever released? Presumably not. Someone from the Schola must have passed it onto someone?

@@dch888It was definitely released in about 1967 - not a private recording. I forget the label. Pan, possibly.

Yes, presumably composed for the Feast of the Crown of Thorns (the Friday after Ash Wednesday).

Hi Adam, Must agree with your comments and thanks for sharing. Whenever l think too much about all the murder and mayhem in our "modern World" (sic) it is always such an enjoyable relief to turnoff to other distractions by playing music such as the above. Truly transcends one to another yes, Renaissance time where we can quietly enjoy the Tallis Scholars. You mention the issue of "the terrible years of intolerance" when such works were considered heretical and this must have been most difficult indeed and of similar import is the aspect that Tallis flourished firstly under the Church of Rome and the Pope and, equally so under King Henry after the split.. now that was a real achievement in my book! WRgds - David

+Elden Steele you're very hot!

picatarte1 Thank you (mille grazie)! :)