Tallis

Tallis - musical genius of the English Tudor age: Donald Macleod
presents highlights from five Composer of the Week episodes
exploring the life and work of Thomas Tallis. Tallis worked at
the hub of English church music, the Chapel Royal, for forty
years during which the country shuddered with political and
religious upheaval. Music was one of the battlegrounds, with
significant risks attached for its practitioners. Through it all,
Tallis turned out piece after piece of glorious music, seemingly
unperturbed when all the rules changed and changed again. Tallis
delicately negotiated the move from elaborate, large-scale
Catholic works of the early sixteenth century to a plainer style
under Edward.