Tallis Scholars' News - Summer 2007
The Tallis Scholars have just returned from a highly successful eleventh tour of Japan; their performance at the Shirakawa Hall in Nagoya on 6th June was not only their 100th concert in Japan but also their 1500th concert since Peter Phillips founded the group in 1973.
Looking ahead The Tallis Scholars are collaborating with the BBC Singers and performing under the baton of Peter Phillips at the BBC Proms on 17th July. The first Late Night Prom of the season features a major rediscovery by harpsichordist and musicologist Davitt Moroney of the lavish multi-part Mass by Alessandro Striggio. The concert begins with The Tallis Scholars and the BBC Singers conducted by Peter Phillips in Striggio's celebrated 40-part motet Ecce beatam lucem, alongside Tallis's immortal Spem in alium, reputedly the result of a challenge by the fourth Duke of Norfolk, for Tallis to equal Striggio's 40-part triumph.
