Tenebrae Choir

Tenebrae Choir

William Byrd and Thomas Tallis may top the charts of Tudor composers, but Robert White and William Mundy deserve equal renown. All four lived through a time when England was torn between loyalty to Catholic Rome and an increasingly prominent Protestant nationalism. The British polyphony specialists of Tenebrae unveil the spiritual persuasiveness of Mundy and White's motets, a mass by Byrd and Tallis's moving anthem If ye love me. 

Programme

• Robert White

  Christe qui lux es III

  c1538-1574
• William Byrd

  Mass for four voices
  Kyrie
  Gloria
  Sanctus – Benedictus
  Agnus Dei

  c1540-1623
• Robert White

  Christe qui lux es IV
  Exaudiat te Dominus

• Thomas Tallis

  Sancte Deus
  If ye love me

  c1505-1585
• William Mundy

  Vox Patris caelestis
  
  Programme subject to change

  c1528-c1591

Musicians

• Rachel Haworth, Victoria Meteyard. Laura Newey, Rosanna Wicks soprano
• Hannah Cooke, Martha McLorinan alto
• Jeremy Budd, Tom Castle tenor
• William Gaunt, Jonathan Howard, George Vines bass
• Nigel Short musical direction