An Immortal Legacy
Summer Festival 2012
Saturday 9 June 2012, 7.30pm
Tickets: £5-£32
The Sixteen return to Christ Church with a programme of Byrd, Tallis, MacMillan, Tippett and Britten
Details
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers conductor
Tallis Tunes for Archbishop Parker’s Psalter
Salvator mundi
Morley April is in thy mistress’ face
Gibbons The Silver Swan
Byrd This sweet and merry month of May
MacMillan Sedebit Dominus
Sheppard In manus tuas III
Tippett Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time
Tallis O nata lux
O sacrum convivium
Loquebantur variis linguis
MacMillan Rex Mitte manum tuam
Byrd Laudibus in sanctis
Britten Choral Dances from Gloriana
The Sixteen return to Christ Church with some of the best-loved classics of Tudor and Jacobean church music and madrigals alongside popular pieces by Britten, MacMillan and Tippett.
Harry Christophers’ programme was a miniature masterpiece of judgement and design, a demonstration of the continuity of the English (and Scottish!) choral tradition
Seen and Heard, Cardiff
Reviews
‘… an experience that was informal, memorable and absolutely rooted in its place.’
