
24/12/2007
Another chance to hear the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers and Tallis Scholars perform choral blockbusters from the late Renaissance, including the modern premiere of Alessandro Striggio's Mass.
Continuing Radio 3's Christmas and New Year series of highlights from the 2007 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms, Christopher Cook introduces a concert in which two of the UK's leading choirs join forces in a programme of choral blockbusters from the late Renaissance, including the modern premiere of Alessandro Striggio's Mass, a 40-voice piece that had lain forgotten for 450 years in a Paris library.
Striggio: Motet (Ecce beatam lucem)
Lassus: Aurora lucis rutilat (Motet and Magnificat)
Tallis: Spem in alium
Striggio: Mass in 40 and 60 parts (Ecco si beato giorno)
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers
The Tallis Scholars
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
Peter Phillips, Davitt Moroney (conductors).
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- Christmas Eve 2007 22:20ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3