Tallis Scholars at First Congregational Church, April 27, 2023
Set One
[7:35 PM] {performers out}
[7:36 PM] Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625): O clap your hands
[7:42 PM] Thomas Tallis (1505–1585): Suscipe quaeso (ca. 1554)
[7:52 PM]
Nico Muhly (b. 1981):
Rough Notes (2018; West Coast Premiere)
[8:03 PM] William Byrd (ca. 1540–1623): Tribue domine (1575)
[8:15 PM] {set ends}
Set Two
[8:35 PM] {lights down, performers out}
[8:36 PM] Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (ca. 1525–1594): Te e Petrus (1572)
[8:43 PM]
John Rutter (b. 1945):
Hymn to the Creator of Light (1993)
[8:50 PM] {drop two of the female singers}
[8:51 PM] Nicolas Gombert (1495–1560): Lubegat David Absalon
[9:00 PM] {drop one of the two remaining female singers and one of the two male bass singers}
[9:01 PM] Josquin des Prez (ca. 1450–1521): Alsalon, fili mi (ca. 1513)
[9:05 PM] {back to the full choir}
[9:06 PM] Arvo Pärt (b.1935): Which was the Son of… (2000)
[9:13 PM] {set ends; all off, but back quickly}
Encore
[9:15 PM] {PP announces the encore}
[9:16 PM] Pärt: Bogoróditse Djévo (Church Slavonic version of Ave Maria) (1990)
[9:18 PM] {show ends}
Tallis Scholars
Tom Castle: tenor vox;
Steven Harrold: tenor vox;
Amy Haworth: soprano vox;
Piers Kennedy: bass vox;
Rebecca Lea: soprano vox;
Victoria Meteyard: soprano vox;
Elisabeth Paul: alto vox;
Peter Phillips: director;
Caroline Trevor: alto vox;
Emma Walshe: soprano vox;
Tim Scott Whiteley: bass vox.
## Notes
It was a real treat to hear the exquisite singing of the Tallis Scholars tonight. Hard to imagine that Phillips has been at it for fifty years.
Except for Phillips' announcement of the encore piece, not a word was spared for the crowd. The unsaid message must have been, “Just listen!”
Program Notes or program notes
Michael Zwiebach posted a review of the show with SFCV.
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