Tallis Festival Choir
The Tallis Festival Choir forms for just one weekend and rehearses intensively from the Friday evening
through to giving a major public concert on the Sunday evening. Participants come from a large number of choirs in and around London, as well as further afield.
The choir has existed for a number of years - forming for each of the eleven Tallis 'Performance Weekends': Tallis I to Tallis X and finally
Tallis D.
The choir was renamed as the Tallis Festival Choir for the new Tallis Festival in 2006.
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The Tallis Festival 2007 was recorded by the BBC and featured on Radio 3's The Choir on 28 October 2007. |
In 2007 the Tallis Festival Choir gave the first performance of Love You Big as the Sky, a 40-part work by Peter McGarr, commissioned by Exmoor Singers for the Festival. A recording of this performance is presented below.
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Peter McGarr - Love You Big as the Sky - part 1 (Tallis Festival Choir) |
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Peter McGarr - Love You Big as the Sky - part 2 (Tallis Festival Choir) |
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Peter McGarr - Love You Big as the Sky - part 3 (Tallis Festival Choir) |
In 2006 the choir gave the first performance of Tentatio, a 40-part work by Finnish composer Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, again commissioned for the Festival by Exmoor Singers. A recording of this performance is presented below.
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Jaakko Mäntyjärvi - Tentatio - part 1 (Tallis Festival Choir) |
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Jaakko Mäntyjärvi - Tentatio - part 2 (Tallis Festival Choir) |
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Jaakko Mäntyjärvi - Tentatio - part 3 (Tallis Festival Choir) |
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Jaakko Mäntyjärvi - Tentatio - part 4 (Tallis Festival Choir) |
