Event
- Title:
- Tallis Christmas Mass
- When:
- Sun 21 November 2010 7:00pm
- Where:
- City of London, Stationers' Hall - City of London
- Category:
- Concert
Description
Tallis stands supreme at the pinnacle of English choral music, and it is thought his Missa Puer natus est was composed for the combined chapel choirs of Queen Mary and King Philip of Spain.
Based on Christmas plainchant, the mass is the most elaborate from mid-16th century England, and by far the grandest by Tallis himself.
Tallis – Lamentations
Tallis – Magnificat à 4
Tallis – Missa Puer natus est
The St Ceciliatide celebrations at Stationers' Hall date from just after the Great Fire of London. Revived by Fiori Musicali to great acclaim, these events are amongst the City's best kept secrets.
"A splendid entertainment is provided, and before it is always a performance of Music by the best voices and hands in Town . . . This Feast is one of the genteelest in the world."
Fiori Musicali Choir, Penelope Rapson director
Reception 6.30 for 7pm concert. Optional candlelit dinner afterwards with fine Saint-Émilion wines.
Tickets £25 (includes reception, interval champagne), dinner +£80
Book tickets here
Venue
- Venue:
- City of London, Stationers' Hall - Website
- Street:
- Ave Maria Lane
- Post code:
- EC4M 7DD
- City:
- City of London
- County:
- London
- Country:
-
Description
Fiori Musicali first came to Stationers' Hall in 1992, performing Purcell's ode Hail! Bright Cecilia on the exact tercentenary of the ode's first performance there on St Cecilia's Day, 22 November 1692. This event pointed up an important connection between Stationers' Hall and St Cecilia, patron saint of music.
Before the 1670s public concerts in England were a rarity. Amongst the very first were concerts at Stationers' Hall (rebuilt in 1672 after the Great Fire of London); and by the 1680s the custom had grown of celebrating St Cecilia's Day there with publicly attended performances and banqueting.
Fiori's modern-day events (like their 17th-century predecessors) seek to fête music's patron saint in the fullest manner possible - through good food, fine wine, convivial company and, most importantly, first-rate music.
Fiori Musicali are one of the UK’s principal providers of baroque and classical music outside London.
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