The Tallis Scholars

Peter Phillips's passion for the unaccompanied sacred choral music of the Renaissance period informed his mission to transform a talented amateur singing group into the polished, professional Tallis Scholars. This film shows off their accomplishments in performances of works by Cornyshe, Taverner, Tallis, Byrd, Desprès and Obrecht, among others. It charts Phillips's personal odyssey and travels with him to Bruges, centre of the richly-coloured music of the fifteenth-century Low Countries.