Spem in Alium Recital: A recital of works by Thomas Tallis and his pupil William Byrd at St Peter's Church, London on Saturday 25th November 2023

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Spem in Alium Recital

A recital of works by Thomas Tallis and his pupil William Byrd

Add to my Calendar 25-11-2023 18:00 25-11-2023 20:00 36 Spem in Alium Recital Petros Singers’ Spem in Alium singing workshop culminates in this hour-long recital. Over the course of the day, keen amateur singers will have worked in eight individual choirs, each led by a professional singer, to explore and learn Thomas Tallis’ seminal work. In addition to the Workshop Choir, you will hear performances by the professional workshop leaders (many of the UK's leading concert singers, performing together as The Garter Consort) and by Petros Singers.The recital will place Tallis’ 40-part motet within the context of his other choral works, as well as works by his pupil, William Byrd, who died 400 years ago in 1623. There are few composers who mastered their craft as definitively as did Tallis, particularly notable when you consider the historic religious upheaval that dominated, and determined, his artistic life. While Spem in Alium represents the apotheosis of his approach, his smaller motets are no less miraculous. Moreover, by first teaching and then going into business with Byrd, Tallis was able to shape the second generation of Anglican choral music, as he had defined the first, as well as leaving his stamp on the early English Madrigal.This influence will be explored in our recital as we place the music of these two great English composers alongside each other. In addition, Petros Singers will perform our 40th-anniversary commission by Kerensa Briggs – St Peter –continuing the Anglican choral tradition pioneered by Tallis and Byrd into the 21st Century. The Garter Consort The Garter Consort is the vocal arm of Richard Bannan’s professional orchestra, The Garter Ensemble, and includes many of the finest consort singers working in the UK. The group takes its name from The Most Honourable and Noble Order of the Garter, the mother church of which is St George’s Chapel, where Richard (Petros Singers’ Musical Director) sings daily services as part of the choir. St Peter's Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Peter's Church
Black Lion Lane
Hammersmith
London
W6 9BE
England

Saturday 25th November 2023
6:00 PM

Programme

Thomas Tallis – Spem in alium nunquam habui à 40
Thomas Tallis – Miserere nostri
Thomas Tallis – Loquebantur variis linguis
Thomas Tallis – When shall my sorrowful sighing slake
William Byrd – Justorum animae
William Byrd – Ave verum corpus
William Byrd – Domine quis habitabit
William Byrd – Ye Sacred Muses
Kerensa Briggs – St Peter

Performers

Richard Bannan – Musical Director
Laura Oldfield – soprano
Lucy Goddard – Alto
Lissie Paul – Alto
Tom Robson – tenor
Toby Ward – tenor
Nick Ashby – Bass
Will Dawes – Bass
Kate Ashby – soprano

Petros Singers

Programme Note

Petros Singers’ Spem in Alium singing workshop culminates in this hour-long recital. Over the course of the day, keen amateur singers will have worked in eight individual choirs, each led by a professional singer, to explore and learn Thomas Tallis’ seminal work. In addition to the Workshop Choir, you will hear performances by the professional workshop leaders (many of the UK's leading concert singers, performing together as The Garter Consort) and by Petros Singers.

The recital will place Tallis’ 40-part motet within the context of his other choral works, as well as works by his pupil, William Byrd, who died 400 years ago in 1623. There are few composers who mastered their craft as definitively as did Tallis, particularly notable when you consider the historic religious upheaval that dominated, and determined, his artistic life. While Spem in Alium represents the apotheosis of his approach, his smaller motets are no less miraculous. Moreover, by first teaching and then going into business with Byrd, Tallis was able to shape the second generation of Anglican choral music, as he had defined the first, as well as leaving his stamp on the early English Madrigal.

This influence will be explored in our recital as we place the music of these two great English composers alongside each other. In addition, Petros Singers will perform our 40th-anniversary commission by Kerensa Briggs – St Peter –continuing the Anglican choral tradition pioneered by Tallis and Byrd into the 21st Century.

The Garter Consort
The Garter Consort is the vocal arm of Richard Bannan’s professional orchestra, The Garter Ensemble, and includes many of the finest consort singers working in the UK. The group takes its name from The Most Honourable and Noble Order of the Garter, the mother church of which is St George’s Chapel, where Richard (Petros Singers’ Musical Director) sings daily services as part of the choir.

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