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Tenebrae Choir

Playlist for the Tudors | 12 - 17 Oct 2026

Tenebrae Choir

Playlist for the Tudors
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.

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Programme & musicians

Tenebrae Choir
Nigel Short musical direction

Robert White c1538-1574
Christe qui lux es III

William Byrd c1540-1623
Mass for four voices
Kyrie
Gloria
Sanctus – Benedictus
Agnus Dei

Robert White
Christe qui lux es IV
Exaudiat te Dominus

Thomas Tallis c1505-1585
Sancte Deus
If ye love me

William Mundy c1528-ca. 1591
Vox Patris caelestis

Programme subject to change