Tallis, Byrd & Gibbons
Sacred Songs, Magical Madrigals & Angelic Anthems
Thursday 6 November 2025, 19:30 - 21:30
St Botolph's Church [ map ]
Bishopsgate
London EC2M 3TL
tickets £18.00, reduced price tickets £15.00
Orlando Chamber Choir
Lucy Goddard, director
2025 marks the 450th anniversary of Thomas Tallis's and William Byrd's iconic Cantiones, quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur of 1575. One of the first sets of sacred music printed in England, it was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I to mark the seventeenth year of her reign. We have selected six of the most sumptuous and ambitious motets, and present them interspersed between anthems by prolific but short-lived composer Orlando Gibbons, whose 400th anniversary is celebrated this year. To finish the festivities with a flourish we will end the programme with some of Gibbons and Byrd’s finest madrigals.
