BBC Proms 2022 - Prom 50 - The Sixteen sings Tallis’s Spem in alium (320kbps .mp3)

Live at the BBC 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.

01. Prom 50 - The Sixteen, Part I
Trad. Plainsong ‘Salve Regina’
Tavener: A Hymn to the Mother of God
01a. Introduction to Prom 50
02. Tallis - Spem in alium
03. MacMillan - Miserere
04. Tye - Missa ‘Euge bone’ – Agnus Dei
05. Gorecki - Totus tuus
05a. Introduction to Gorecki’s Totus tuus
06. Sheppard - Missa ‘Cantate’ – Agnus Dei
07. MacMillan - Vidi aquam
07a. Introduction to MacMillan’s Vidi aquam
08. Byrd - Diliges Dominum
08a. Introduction to Byrd’s Diliges Dominum
09. Tallis - Miserere Nostri [encore]

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.

First broadcast: 24 August 2022
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