Taverner Consort and Players

The Taverner Choir, Consort and Players
Baroque orchestra and vocal ensemble
The Taverner Choir, Consort and Players emblem
Founded	1973 (1973)
Principal conductor	Andrew Parrott
Website	www.taverner.org

The Taverner Choir, Consort and Players is a British music ensemble which specialises in the performance of

The group is named after the 16th-century English composer John Taverner.

History

In 1973 the Taverner Choir, Consort and Players (TCCP) made their début at the

Parrott's group was formed during the flourishing of the British Early music revival during the 1970s, when orchestras and choirs such as Christopher Hogwood's Academy of Ancient Music, The English Concert under Trevor Pinnock and The Tallis Scholars under Peter Phillips began to emerge, advancing the performance of early Western art music informed by scholarly research and using period instruments.^[1]

The Taverner Consort and Players were led until the early 1990s by

The ensemble's recording of John Taverner's Western Wind Mass won the 2016 Early Music Award at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards.^[6] and received the Diapason d'Or in 2017.^[7]

Notable recordings

TCCP have an extensive catalogue of over 60 critically acclaimed recordings featuring works by composers such as

• Monteverdi – Vespro della Beata Vergine (EMI Reflexe, 1983)
• Claudio Monteverdi —
  Selva Morale e Spirituale
  (EMI Reflexe, 1984)
• J S Bach – Mass in B minor (EMI Reflexe, 1985)
• Taverner — Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas a6 (EMI Reflexe, 1986)
• Tallis — Latin Church Music (EMI Reflexe, 1989)
• Giovanni Gabrieli – Canzonas, Sontatas, Motets (EMI Reflexe, 1992)
• J S Bach — St John Passion (Virgin Veritas, 1991)
• Trauer-Music for Prince Leopold (Avie, 2011)
• Claudio Monteverdi — L’Orfeo: Favola in musica (Avie, 2013) and
• Western Wind Mass by John Taverner & Court Music for Henry VIII (Avie, 2016)

See also

• List of early music ensembles
• Early music of the British Isles
• Music of Venice

References