Choral Classics

Join the Tallis Consort as they take you on a journey of the finest choral music written over the last five hundred years. Come and hear the early music genius of Claudio Monteverdi, the best of continental Europe courtesy of Mozart and Fauré, to the contemporary harmonious wizardry of Eric Whitacre and John Rutter.

The professional singers are accompanied by former Beverley Minster Assistant Organist Ian Seddon, and joined by BBC Chorister of the Year participant (2023) Rhys Powell in one of the nation’s favourites – Mendelssohn’s well-loved ‘O for the Wings of a Dove’.

Programme:
The professional singers are accompanied by Ian Seddon (organ) and joined by BBC Chorister of the Year participant (2023) Rhys Powell in one of the nation’s favourites – Mendelssohn’s well-loved ‘O for the Wings of a Dove’.

Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643) – Cantate Domino (1620)
Thomas Tallis (1505 – 1585) – If Ye Love Me (1565)
Robert Parsons (1535 – 1572) – Ave Maria (155?)
Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695) – Hear my prayer, O Lord (1682)
George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759) – And he Shall Purify the Sons of Levi (Messiah) (1741)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1758 – 1791) – Lacrimosa (Requiem) (1791)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes de confessore) (1780)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809) – The Heavens are Telling (Creation) (1798)

INTERVAL

Felix Mendelssohn (Bartholdy) (1809 – 1847) – Hear my Prayer (1844) (with treble soloist, Rhys Powell)
Gabriel Fauré (1845 – 1924) – Cantique de Jean Racine (1865)
Michael Tippett (1905 – 1998) – Steal Away (Five Spirituals – A Child of Our Time) (1941)
Eric Whitacre (1970 – ) – Lux Arumque (2000)
John Rutter (1945 – ) – The Lord bless you and keep you (1982)