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Spem in alium (Latin for "Hope in any other") is a 40-part Renaissance motet by Thomas Tallis, composed in c. 1570 for eight choirs of five voices each. It is considered by some critics to be the greatest piece of English early music .
In 2021 Short and Tenebrae worked with the Self-Isolation Choir on Thomas Tallis's 40-part Spem in alium. The Tenebrae singers recorded each of the 40 parts, and Short conducted 40 rehearsals of 90 minutes, broadcast live on Youtube and available for choir members to watch again, in July and August.
Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 – 23 November 1585; [n 1] also Tallys or Talles) was an English composer of High Renaissance music.His compositions are primarily vocal, and he occupies a primary place in anthologies of English choral music.
Spem In Alium; Suscipe quaeso; Te Lucis Ante Terminum ; Te Lucis Ante Terminum ; Videte Miraculum (Responsory for Vespers) English service music. Preces (1st Set) ...
In October 2021, guest director Nigel Short led over 2,000 voices in a performance of 40-part choral motet Spem in Alium by Thomas Tallis. The Choir produced a video to accompany its performance, which simultaneously shows Nigel Short conducting each of the 40 parts individually. [47]
In 2003, the group signed with Signum Records, with whom they have now released eighteen recordings, including an experimental recording of Thomas Tallis' 40-part "Spem in Alium", using modern studio multi-tracking techniques to turn their six voices into 40, the results of which can be heard on a Signum CD and Iambic Productions DVD, which ...
There is some evidence that he may have had the music for either this piece or his 40/60 voice mass, Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno, with him on his diplomatic visit to London in 1567, since Thomas Tallis seems to have been inspired and challenged by it, and shortly afterwards wrote his own 40-voice tour-de-force Spem in alium, commissioned ...
"Spem in Alium" Thomas Tallis, arr. Kronos Quartet: 8:52: 5. "Doom. A Sigh" ... Official playlist on YouTube This page was last edited on 22 October 2024, at ...