With No Resting Place, The Tallis Scholars devote an entire album to the music of Nico Muhly, bringing together six works written for the ensemble at the invitation of Peter Phillips. Often associated with contemporary minimalism, Muhly reveals in this program a far more intricate musical language, shaped as much by his engagement with liturgical traditions and ancient texts as by contemporary concerns surrounding memory, displacement, and cultural identity. The composer’s close affinity with early choral music is evident from Recordare, Domine, the first work he wrote for the ensemble. Without ever resorting to historical pastiche, Muhly appears instead to draw on certain contrapuntal techniques of the Renaissance masters, combining them with more unstable…