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
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 30m
with one intermission
Literary and cultural critic, and friend of the late Edward Said, Michael Wood opens the Edward W. Said Days with his lecture surveying counterpoint as a musical and literary term. Framed by the Tallis Scholars–whose concert explores the ecstatic heights of 15th and 16th century counterpoint through works by Byrd, Desprez, Allegro and others–the evening comes to a close with Tallis’s monumental 40-part motet Spem in alium.