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
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.
Programme
Orlando Gibbons (1583 – 1625)
O clap your hands together
Hosanna to the son of David
William Byrd (c.1540 – 1623)
Siderum rector
Orlando Gibbons (1583 – 1625)
Glorious and powerful God
Thomas Tallis (c.1505 – 1585)
Te lucis ante terminum
Orlando Gibbons (1583 – 1625)
This is the Record of John
William Byrd (c.1540 – 1623)
Diliges Dominum
Thomas Tallis (c.1505 – 1585)
Suscipe quaeso Domine
Orlando Gibbons (1583 – 1625)
Out of the deep have I called to thee
William Byrd (c.1540 – 1623)
Emendemus in melius
Orlando Gibbons (1583 – 1625)
Great Lord of Lords
Thomas Tallis (c.1505 – 1585)
Candidi facti sunt
Orlando Gibbons (1583 – 1625)
Lift up your heads
William Byrd (c.1540 – 1623)
This sweet and merry month of May
Orlando Gibbons (1583 – 1625)
The silver swan
I feign not friendship where I hate
Fair is the rose
William Byrd (c.1540 – 1623)
Though Amaryllis dance in green
