Oxford Bach Choir
Benjamin Nicholas, conductor
We will begin and end our concert with Thomas Tallis’s astonishing motet for 40 voices, Spem in Alium. During the evening, we will travel by way of J. S. Bach’s classic masterpiece Lobet den Herrn, via the rich romanticism of motets by Anton Bruckner and Charles Stanford to the fascinating sonorities of three modern heirs to the great choral tradition, Cecilia McDowall, Caroline Shaw, and John Tavener, including the latter’s much loved Song for Athene.
