Malheur me bat / Fortuna desperata [masses]

"Peter Phillip's pre-eminently clear-sighted direction… may carry with it a certain detachment, but the architecture of Josquin's edifices is allowed to emerge untrammelled by well-meaning expressive accretions, and to speak for itself with a directness and intellectual power that compels from first note to last." BBC Music Magazine, March 2009 ****

"…as a piece of ensemble-singing the disc is hugely impressive and I suspect that listeners will come away feeling that they've learnt something important about Josquin." Gramophone Magazine, April 2009

"Adventurous harmonies pour forth, though the calm radiance of Peter Phillips's singers always soothes the temples in these two Masses spun from secular songs." The Times, 7th March 2009 ****

"Notable stuff, this, and well worth the attention of every listener with even a modicum of interest in the period."
(Five Stars Audaud.com)

The Tallis Scholars have been performing the music of Josquin regularly in concert for over 20 years. Their 1986 CD of his music remains the only recording of Early Music to have won the Gramophone Record of the Year Award. This new release is the fourth CD in The Tallis Scholars' projected Complete Josquin Mass Cycle.