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24 Aug 2022, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2022 Prom 50: The Sixteen Sings Tallis’s Spem in alium

Prom 50
Prom 50: The Sixteen Sings Tallis’s Spem in alium
22:15 Wed 24 Aug 2022 Royal Albert Hall
The virtuoso chamber choir The Sixteen performs Tallis’s extraordinary 40-part Spem in alium – the centrepiece of an unaccompanied late-night choral meditation that extends from medieval plainsong to the sounds of the 21st century.
The virtuoso chamber choir The Sixteen performs Tallis’s extraordinary 40-part Spem in alium – the centrepiece of an unaccompanied late-night choral meditation that extends from medieval plainsong to the sounds of the 21st century.

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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

Image: The Sixteen © Firedog