Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars: another country

Clare Stevens
Thursday, March 2, 2023

‘The past is another country’ - and so was early music when the Tallis Scholars first assembled to perform it 50 years ago. Founder-director Peter Phillips talks to Clare Stevens about how performing techniques have been honed in the intervening decades, and how Renaissance music has enjoyed its own rebirth

 Peter Phillips conducts The Tallis Scholars at the 2013 BBC Proms
Peter Phillips conducts The Tallis Scholars at the 2013 BBC Proms

PHOTOS COURTESY THE TALLIS SCHOLARS

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