British composer Thomas Tallis was born 500 years ago. One of his most celebrated pieces of choral music was "Spem in Alium," a motet he wrote to be sung by eight five-voice choirs, each singing a ...

And we think it's very special. Here's proof, in case you needed it, that sometimes the most beautiful music is the simplest. Thomas Tallis's motet 'If ye love me' is a relatively straightforward four ...

Peter Phillips shares his lifelong passion for Renaissance vocal music by exploring the lives and works of two very contrasting composers: Thomas Tallis and Nicolas Gombert. Show more Peter ...

classical music, of all things. Consider this: Thomas Tallis' wondrous 40-part motet Spem in alium, written around 1570 and recorded by The Tallis Scholars more than 25 years ago, has bounded up ...

Although it’s hard to pin down – Thomas Tallis appears to have been an international man ... O God of Israel’. The music he came up with is simply breathtaking and has captivated new generations down ...

By the time he wrote it, possibly around 1568, Thomas Tallis had a huge reputation as a composer of artfully complex music, full of arcane technical devices and hidden symbols. Born around 1505 ...

Thomas Tallis is a very short play, and with so much time taken up by music, Swale gives herself little option but to offer the most cursory of character sketches. Guy Amos’s Edward VI is a priggish ...

Our music this evening includes Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, a melody borrowed from Archbishop Parker's Psalter. Tune in at 8 p.m. on 91.1 and 107.5 FM and our music stream.

In 1575 Queen Elizabeth first doled out a patent on music printing to a composer who wrote mostly for the church, Thomas Tallis. In 1777 the French introduced the concept of performing rights and ...

And do we need to share these beliefs in any way, to have a spiritual experience as listeners to their music? Answers to these questions are complex, fascinating and challenging. Thomas Tallis ...