The Tallis Scholars Concert

The Tallis Scholars 

Peter Phillips conductor 

Daniel Hyde conductor 

Programme: 

Parsons O bone Jesu 

Parsons Ave Maria 

White Regina caeli 

Byrd All Saints Propers 

Victoria Requiem 

Presented by Concerts at King's with Cambridge Music Festival. 

Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Requiem stands as the crowning achievement of Spain’s greatest Renaissance composer, and a masterpiece of the Spanish Golden Age. Written in 1603 for the funeral of the Dowager Empress Maria of Austria, this Mass for the Dead evokes a profound sense of peace rather than grief. The beauty and luminous stillness in its slow-moving harmonies and closely-woven vocal lines turn sorrow to solace, mourning to consolation. 

‘[The Tallis Scholars’] tonal purity, articulation, ensemble spirit: everything here is sheer perfection.’ THE TIMES

Photo: The Tallis Scholars by Hugo Glendinning