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Temple Winter Festival 2016 - the Tallis Scholars sing Christmas music

Live from the Temple Church in London, Martin Handley presents the Tallis Scholars in a Christmas concert featuring works by Victoria, Part, Sheppard, Britten, Tavener and Tallis.

Temple Winter Festival 2016 - the Tallis Scholars sing Christmas music

Live from the Temple Church, London
Presented by Martin Handley

Victoria: Magnificat Primi Toni
P盲rt: Magnificat
Sheppard: Libera nos I and II
Britten: Hymn to the Virgin
Tavener: The Lamb
Tallis: Missa Puer natus est nobis (Gloria)

8.15: Interval Music: A Concerto grosso by John Stanley, the famed eighteenth century organist of the Temple Church, and an organ concerto by his admirer, George Frederic Handel.

8.35:
Tallis: Missa Puer natus est nobis (Sanctus)
Sheppard: Gaude, gaude, gaude
Tallis: Missa Puer natus est nobis (Agnus Dei)
Victoria: Salve Regina

Tallis Scholars
Peter Philips director

Sandwiched between Victoria's two grandest double-choir compositions, the Tallis Scholars' programme features Tallis's seven-voice Christmas Mass "Puer natus". Its three surviving movements are separated by masterpieces of this seasonal repertoire, the two by Sheppard involving the specialist high treble voice. The modern pieces by P盲rt, Britten and Tavener have long been recognised as classics.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Part 1

    • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

      Magnificat Primi Toni (a8)

      Ensemble: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • Arvo P盲rt

      Magnificat

      Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • John Sheppard

      Libera nos I & II

      Ensemble: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • Benjamin Britten

      Hymn to the Virgin

      Ensemble: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • John Tavener

      The Lamb

      Ensemble: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • Thomas Tallis

      Missa Puer natus (Gloria)

      Ensemble: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
  • Interval

    • Thomas Tallis

      O ye tender babes

      Performer: Trevor Pinnock.
    • John Stanley

      Concerto in G major

      Performer: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • George Frideric Handel

      Concerto in B flat major, Op 4 No 2

      Performer: Simon Preston. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
  • Part 2

    • Thomas Tallis

      Missa Puer natus (Sanctus)

      Ensemble: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • John Sheppard

      Gaude, gaude, gaude

      Ensemble: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • Thomas Tallis

      Missa Puer natus (Agnus dei)

      Ensemble: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

      Salve Regina (a8)

      Ensemble: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
  • Post-concert

    • George Frideric Handel

      Organ Concerto in F major 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale'

      Performer: Simon Preston. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
      • Handel's Organ Concertos.
      • Archiv Produktion.
      • 4473002.
    • George Frideric Handel

      Concerto Grosso in C major (Alexander's Feast)

      Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
      • Concerto Grosso 'Alexander's Feast'.
      • Archiv Produktion.
      • 4152912.

Broadcast

  • Fri 16 Dec 2016 19:30