Tippett: Unaccompanied Choral Music – The Carice Singers

This release from The Carice Singers, conducted by George Parris, brings together the complete unaccompanied choral works of Michael Tippett (1905–1998), marking the ensemble’s debut recording with Signum Classics. Composed across the first twenty-five years of Tippett’s career, these works reveal a composer whose choral writing draws on Renaissance polyphony and English madrigal tradition while remaining distinctly his own — rhythmically inventive, harmonically adventurous, and full of vivid word-painting. Long under-explored despite Tippett’s stature as a choral conductor, this music is presented here with fresh clarity, offering listeners a compelling overview of an important strand of twentieth-century British choral repertoire.