The Tallis Scholars : East Neuk Festival

The Tallis Scholars perform the music for which they are most beloved and acclaimed the world over. As Gramophone Magazine said of their Byrd recording, ‘it’s the sort of musical bliss which should never stop’. Tallis’s moving Lamentations are interspersed with two wonderfully contrasted settings of the Mass. Byrd’s has a reflective and intense spirit, reflecting the dangers that assailed his fellow Catholics worshipping in 1590s England. But Las...