Choral at Cadogan - The Sixteen
An Immortal Legacy
Repertoire
- Tallis
- Tunes for Archbishop Parker’s Psalter (1-4)
- Tallis
- Salvator mundi
- Morley
- April is in my mistress’ face
- Gibbons
- The silver swan
- Byrd
- This sweet and merry month of May
- Macmillan
- Sedebit Dominum Rex
- Sheppard
- In manus tuas III
- Tippett
- Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time
- Tallis
- O nata lux
- Tallis
- O sacrum convivium
- Tallis
- Loquebantur variis linguis
- Macmillan
- Mitte manum tuam
- Byrd
- Laudibus in sanctis
- Britten
- Choral Dances from Gloriana
- Tallis
- Tunes for Archbishop Parker’s Psalter (5-8)
Performers
- Harry Christophers
- director
The Sixteen explore the great British choral tradition with a programme focusing on arguably its two most creative periods: glorious Renaissance polyphony in Tallis’ 1567 Tunes for Archbishop Parker’s Psalter (which includes a tune used by Vaughan Williams in his Tallis Fantasia) and motets by Byrd, Morley and Gibbons, juxtaposed with 20th-century works – the vivid pageantry of Britten’s Choral Dances from his opera Gloriana, Tippett’s arrangements of African-American spirituals, which function as chorales in his oratorio A Child of our Time, and two of James Macmillan’s Strathclyde Motets.
Part of Choral at Cadogan 2013/14
