Prom 6: BBC Singers/Tallis Scholars July 17, 2007

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.

There will be no interval

Striggio
Motet 'Ecce beatam lucem' (8 mins)
Lassus
Motet and Magnificat 'Aurora lucis rutilat' (11 mins)
Tallis
Spem in alium (9 mins)
Striggio
Mass 'Ecco si beato giorno' in 40 and 60 parts (first performance in modern times) (28 mins) *

Gary Cooper Organ (continuo)
Timothy Roberts Harpsichord (continuo)
BBC Singers
Tallis Scholars
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
Continuo Group
Peter Phillips conductor
Davitt Moroney conductor

Official Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2007/whatson/1707.shtml#prom6