The Tallis Scholars: Live In Rome

Starring:Tallis Scholars, Phillips
Studio: Gimell
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Beautiful music, worth buying, disappointing editing.

The Tallis Scholars: Live In Rome
Starring: Tallis Scholars , and Phillips
Manufacturer: Gimell UK
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00061QJJY
Release Date: 2004-10-12

Customer Reviews:

Beautiful music, worth buying, disappointing editing. .......2005-12-16

I love the Tallis Scholars, and have seen them live a few times. The most fascinating thing for me is to see how the beautiful sounds are created with nothing but the voices of a small number of people. In the live concerts, my seats were far back, so I was not able to see the faces of the performers doing their magic, and that's why I bought this DVD - I wanted to see the faces up close.

The performance is wonderful; the Sanctus and Agnus Dei from the Missa Papae Marcelli are close to the best I've ever heard, and the performance of Allegri's Miserere is outstanding.

The production is, however, frustrating to me. I don't think the editors (or the camera people) appreciated the underlying music they were working with. At any given moment, the music may feature a soaring, beautiful voice taking the lead, but the image will be of Peter Phillips (the 'director' of the performers) 'conducting' (a useful image once in a while). At other times, the image will be giving us a closeup of someone who's voice at that moment is contibuting to the background, while someone else off-camera is producing a heavenly sound.

Please, show us the source of the awesome voice! This seems to happen over and over.

This DVD also uses 'angles' very cleverly to give you two 'versions' of the music - one version shows the performers (not ideally, as described above), while the other version shows the artwork in the stunningly beautiful church. The problem with this, for me, is that both of my DVD players insist on showing an 'angle' overlay on the screen; this is a bug in the two DVD playerss, but since so few DVDs use multiple angles, bugs like this are not found and fixed by the DVD player manufacturers. Philips refuse to fix this bug in my player. I worked around this by using a DVD backup utility to create a 'single angle' version, which was a pain to do.

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