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- ↑ Early Music Network & News 1997 "Signum Records SIGGCD001 (71 ' 52") A new record company and an ambitious new project: no less than the complete works of Tallis on nine CDs. Chapelle du Rol, a group of ten singers founded in 1994, has already given concerts of the ...
- ↑ Gramophone (13 September 2017). "Label of the Year". www.gramophone.co.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
