“This is not a normal concert for us”, explains the Tallis Scholars’ founder and director Peter Phillips, “nor, I suppose, will it be for most of the audience. Compline is a uniquely meditative experience and sequence of music. It’s one that was established hundreds of years ago, and one that always works. I always find it very reposeful and the plainchant is a big part of that.
30 August 2018, The Tablet
Compline in all its mystery and majesty is celebrated at this week’s Proms
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