For their 40th anniversary concert on 7 March 2013 at St. Paul's Cathedral, London (see my review on this blog), the Tallis Scholars, director Peter Phillips, commissioned a new work from Eric Whitacre. Whitacre's atmospheric new work, Sainte-Chapelle, sets a modern Latin text by his regular collaborator Charles Antony Silvestri and to complement the premiere it has been recorded by the choir and issued as a digital download. It is the Tallis Scholars first recording of a living composer since their work with John Tavener in 1984.
You can hear Eric Whitacre talking about Sainte-Chapelle on YouTube. The recording of Sainte-Chapelle was made in the chapel of Merton College, Oxford. It lasts 8'37 and can be downloaded from iTunes.
The concert on 7 March launched the Tallis Scholars extensive 40th anniversary tour to USA, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and Australia, and Whitacre's Sainte-Chapelle features in the programmes for these concerts. Their exact anniversary in the autumn will be marked by a special concert at Canterbury Cathedral.
Further information on the Tallis Scholars recordings from the Gimmell website.
Elsewhere on this blog:
- Written on Skin
- Julia Lezhneva - motets -CD review
- Sarah Walker 70th birthday
- Levine - Divine Liturgy - CD review
- Imenio at London Handel Festival
- L'Assedio di Calais - ETO
- Madrigali dell'Estate - Stephen McNeff - CD review
- Old and New - Tallis Scholars 40th birthday concert
- Haflidi Hallgrimsson choral works - CD review
- Louise Alder recital at Lied in London
- Written on Skin - CD review
- Cosi fan tutte - ETO at Hackney Empire
- Al Combate - CD review
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