Supersize Polyphony 360 with Armonico Consort: Tallis' Spem in Alium in 360 degree surround sound at Coventry Cathedral, Coventry on Friday 6th July 2018

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Supersize Polyphony 360 with Armonico Consort

Tallis' Spem in Alium in 360 degree surround sound

Add to my Calendar 06-07-2018 19:30 06-07-2018 21:30 36 Supersize Polyphony 360 with Armonico Consort Supersize Polyphony is a 360 degree musical experience in which leading professional choir Armonico Consort performs large-scale works from the 16th century in complete ‘surround sound’ – with the audience encircled by the choir.    The concert features epic motets such as Tallis’s 40-part Spem in Alium and Striggio’s Ecce Beatam Lucem, alongside the rarely-performed 60-part Missa Ecco Si Beato Giorno and is interspersed with the serenely beautiful chants of Hildegard of Bingen and other works from the period.   The 8-date tour is a collaboration with the Choir of Gonville and Caius College Chapel, Cambridge with the additional 20 voices for the Striggio Mass formed from a chamber or youth choir in each venue.    A wider series of associated events for children and local communities includes education workshops with Armonico Consort’s composer-in-residence Toby Young, pop-up performances, Come and Sing open rehearsals and a recording.    Thomas Tallis’ Spem in Alium is widely considered to be the greatest piece of music of the English Renaissance.  Written for 40 individual voices arranged in eight groups of five singers, it starts with a single voice before others join in and vocal ‘conversations’ fly across the space.    It is thought that Striggio’s great motets, Ecce Beatam Lucem and 60-part Missa Ecco Si Beato Giorno, were the catalyst for Tallis’ composition, an Elizabethan nobleman challenging “whether none of our Englishmen could sett as good a songe”.  Striggio’s Mass is a real rarity, involving 60 individual voices at one point, and gives a chance for members of local chamber and youth choirs to participate in a professional performance.   Coventry Cathedral, Coventry DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Coventry Cathedral
Priory Street
Coventry
West Midlands
CV1 5FB
England

Friday 6th July 2018
7:30 PM

Programme

Thomas Tallis – Spem in alium nunquam habui à 40
Alessandro Striggio – Missa Ecco Si Beato Giorno (60-part Mass)
Alessandro Striggio – Ecce beatam lucem à 40

Performers

Christopher Monks – Director

Armonico Consort
Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

Programme Note

Supersize Polyphony is a 360 degree musical experience in which leading professional choir Armonico Consort performs large-scale works from the 16th century in complete ‘surround sound’ – with the audience encircled by the choir.

The concert features epic motets such as Tallis’s 40-part Spem in Alium and Striggio’s Ecce Beatam Lucem, alongside the rarely-performed 60-part Missa Ecco Si Beato Giorno and is interspersed with the serenely beautiful chants of Hildegard of Bingen and other works from the period.

The 8-date tour is a collaboration with the Choir of Gonville and Caius College Chapel, Cambridge with the additional 20 voices for the Striggio Mass formed from a chamber or youth choir in each venue.

A wider series of associated events for children and local communities includes education workshops with Armonico Consort’s composer-in-residence Toby Young, pop-up performances, Come and Sing open rehearsals and a recording.

Thomas Tallis’ Spem in Alium is widely considered to be the greatest piece of music of the English Renaissance. Written for 40 individual voices arranged in eight groups of five singers, it starts with a single voice before others join in and vocal ‘conversations’ fly across the space.

It is thought that Striggio’s great motets, Ecce Beatam Lucem and 60-part Missa Ecco Si Beato Giorno, were the catalyst for Tallis’ composition, an Elizabethan nobleman challenging “whether none of our Englishmen could sett as good a songe”. Striggio’s Mass is a real rarity, involving 60 individual voices at one point, and gives a chance for members of local chamber and youth choirs to participate in a professional performance.

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