THOMAS TALLIS
Sep 4, 2018 · 10 min read

Music-lovers of today are most likely to associate the name of Thomas Tallis with a composition by Ralph Vaughan Williams. His “Fantasia on a theme by Tallis” is one of the great string works of the twentieth century. The only comparable work to have come close to it in the esteem of listeners and critics alike is Samuel Barber’s famous “Adagio for strings”. The two works are somewhat similar in tempo and, to a degree, in idiom. But while the Barber is expressive…

