Amazonレビュー
William Cornysh's music is the most flamboyant example of the sensationally florid, luxuriant style dominant in English sacred music in the years around 1500. Among its distinguishing features: fearsome rhythmic complexity, rapid virtuoso passages, stark contrasts between sections for choir and for reduced voices, and contrasts of range and color (high treble and low bass is a favorite duo combination). This disc includes all of Cornysh's surviving sacred works that can be reconstructed, along with three short, charming secular songs and the powerful
Woefully arrayed, a four-voice setting of an imagined admonishment to believers by the crucified Christ. (Rufus Müller's singing of the opening phrase is breathtaking.) The Tallis Scholars are electrifying throughout on this, certainly the most spectacular recording they've ever made.
--Matthew Westphal