Spem in alium
This May Thames Chamber Choir celebrates its twentieth anniversary in the magical acoustic of St George’s Bloomsbury – one of London’s most iconic Hawksmoor churches.
Join us for a concert of great choral works, renaissance and modern, including Vaughan-Williams’ powerful and evocative 3 Shakespeare Songs, Jonathan Dove’s spectacularly beautiful The Passing of the Year and Thomas Tallis’s masterful motet for 40 voices – considered by some to be the greatest piece of early English music – Spem in alium.
Programme
- William Byrd: Vigilate
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Sicut cervus
- Thomas Tallis: God Grant with Grace
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Song of songs – Descendit in hortum nocum
- William Byrd: Sing joyfully
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Tu es petrus
- Thomas Tallis: Spem in alium
- Ralph Vaughan-Williams: 3 Shakespeare songs
- James Macmillan: O Radiant Dawn
- Andrew Campling: O be joyful in the Lord
- Kerry Andrew: Archbishop Parker’s psalm
- Kristopher Fulton: Llega la hora
- Jonathan Dove: The Passing of the Year
