No Resting Place

Nico Muhly and The Tallis Scholars present 'No Resting Place', a collection of world premiere recordings of works that Muhly has written for The Tallis Scholars over the past ten years, at the invitation of their conductor Peter Phillips. Phillips says that Muhly 'immediately understood our specific sound. A series of masterworks followed, each one even more powerful than the last.' The title work, No Resting Place, is a setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, interspersed with contemporary interviews with people from the Windrush generation. Recordare, Domine also sets texts from the Lamentations to music, while Marrow is a setting of Psalm 63. Rough Notes, with its cold textures, austere counterpoint and unstable harmonies, is based on Captain Scott's diary about his ill-fated mission to Antarctica. Prosperitie was written to celebrate Peter Phillips' 70th birthday, and A Glorious Creature celebrates the glory of the soul. This album marks the beginning of a new collaboration between The Tallis Scholars and Linn.