Artists
The Tallis Scholars
Choir
Peter Phillips
Conductor
Program
William Byrd
Laudibus in sanctis
Robert White
Magnificat
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Magnificat sexti toni à 12
Josquin Desprez
Qui habitat
Gregorio Allegri
Miserere
Giovanni Battista Croce , Giovanni Battista Croce
Miserere
Thomas Tallis
Miserere
Nicolas Gombert
Magnificat III Tertii et octavi toni
Thomas Tallis
Spem in alium / Motette für vierzig Stimmen in acht Chören
Approximate running time:
1h 45m
with one intermission
In the first concert of the Edward W. Said Days, the Tallis Scholars explore the theme of counterpoint in a series of Magnificat and Miserere settings and further works by William Byrd, Josquin Desprez, Gregorio Allegri, and Thomas Tallis, among others. The program comes to a close with Tallis’s monumental 40-part motet Spem in alium.