91Èȱ¬

Live at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms: The Sixteen, conducted by Harry Christophers, perform music from medieval plainsong to the 21st century, including Tallis's Spem in alium.

Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Trad. Plainsong ‘Salve Regina’
Tavener: A Hymn to the Mother of God
Tallis: Spem in alium
MacMillan: Miserere
Tye: Missa ‘Euge bone’ – Agnus Dei
Gorecki: Totus tuus
Sheppard: Missa ‘Cantate’ – Agnus Dei
MacMillan: Vidi aquam
Byrd: Diliges Dominum

The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor

Now in its fifth decade, Harry Christophers’s chamber choir The Sixteen is one of the enduring wonders of the choral scene, its precision and effortlessly expressive singing touching audiences all over the world. This late-night meditation in the Royal Albert Hall centres on Tallis’s extraordinary Spem in alium – the magnificent 40-voice motet that’s one of the supreme achievements of the English musical Renaissance. Around it, like planets in orbit, The Sixteen weaves a sequence of choral music that criss-crosses a millennium, extending from medieval plainsong to the 21st century, and works – such as Sir James MacMillan’s Miserere – that were created specially for The Sixteen’s sublimely beautiful sound.

There will be no interval.