Tenebrae Choir

Tenebrae visits Ely Cathedral for a spectacular concert as part of the Aldeburgh Festival, performing music written for great spaces and sacred rituals: the 20th-century John Tavener, whose work looks back through the ages to draw its inspiration from chant and devotion, and the Renaissance figurehead Tallis, whose famous 40-part motet Spem in Alium ("Hope in any other") is of impressive scale and beauty. Unsuk Chin's companion piece draws on fragments of its melody and harmony - a method also used by Roderick Williams, whose colourful Ave Verum Corpus Re-imagined is based on a work of Tallis' contemporary William Byrd. The programme is completed by gloriously colourful and dramatic works by composers Sir James MacMillan, Eric Whitacre, and Judith Weir.