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Multi-Part Music

Aled Jones explores our recurring fascination with multi-part choral music, guided by composer, Gabriel Jackson, whose own 40-part Sanctum est verum lumen is one of the latest additions to the tradition.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in alium

    Performers: Magnificat, Philip Cave (director)

    • LINN CKD233.
    • 3.
  • Michael Tippett

    Dance, Clarion, Air

    Performers: Canterbury Cathedral Choir, Allan Wicks (director)

    • Grosvenor Records, GRS 1030.
  • Robert Carver

    O bone Jesu (a 19)

    Performers: Taverner Choir, Andrew Parrott (director)

    • EMI CDC7496612.
    • 3.
  • Peter McGarr

    Love you Big as the Sky

    Performers: Exmoor Singers & Tallis Festival choir, James Jarvis (conductor)

    • 大象传媒 recording.
  • Robert Wylkynson

    Salve Regina (a9)

    Performers: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (director)

    • Coro COR16022.
    • 7.
  • Gabriel Jackson

    Sanctum est verum lumen (a 40)

    Performers: National Youth Choir of Great Britain Mike Brewer (conductor)

    • Delphian CDC34045.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Sun 7 Mar 2010 18:30

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