Event: https://facebook.com/events/s/the-tallis-scholars-chipping-c/26010285321993477/
The legendary voices of The Tallis Scholars with Director Peter Phillips open the 2026 Festival with a programme inspired by the Sistine Chapel and the extraordinary Renaissance composers who wrote music to be sung in services there. The Choir of the Sistine Chapel served as the personal choir of the Pope and was at the centre of the Vatican’s musical life. The musicians appointed as its singers came from across Europe they were also expected to write music, with thrilling results. Prepare to be transported by music of timeless and transcendent beauty, from Allegri’s ethereal Miserere, written for the Chapel’s exclusive use during Holy Week, to mass movements by Palestrina and motets by Morales, Josquin, and Festa.
PALESTRINA: Missa In te Domine Speravi (Kyrie)
MORALES: Regina caeli
PALESTRINA: Missa Tu es Petrus (Gloria)
FESTA: Quam pulchra es
CARPENTRAS: Lamentations
PALESTRINA: Missa Papae Marcelli (Credo)
Interval
ALLEGRI: Miserere
PALESTRINA: Missa Confitebor tibi Domine (Sanctus)
JOSQUIN: Praeter rerum seriem
PALESTRINA: Missa Brevis (Agnus Dei)
Concert ends approx 20:45.