YORKSHIRE Bach Choir presents Music for the Feast of All Saints at St Michael le Belfrey, York, on Saturday night.
The choir's first programme of its 2014/15 season opens with Thomas Tallis’s choral blockbuster Spem in Alium.
"Famously, the work calls for 40 different vocal parts singing simultaneously," says conductor Peter Seymour.
"We shall perform Spem twice during the concert, once at the beginning and once at the end, and we'll also be performing music by William Byrd, including his Mass for Four Voices and motets for the Feast of All Saints."
Casting his eye over Saturday's programme, Peter says: "Yorkshire Bach Choir regularly performs Tudor music and our audiences relish wall-to-wall, surround sound choral singing. It is indeed the Golden Age of English Choral music.
"Spem in Alium is a unique challenge for the choral singer and always an event when performed in York. A piece that is so good you want to perform it twice, so we will.”
Tickets for the 7.30pm to 9.45pm concert cost £14, concessions £12, on 01904 658338, at ncem.co.uk or in person from the National Centre for Early Music in Walmgate. Alternatively, they will be available on the door.
A blog on Saturday's concert and the 2014/15 concert series can be found at yorksbachchoir.blogspot.co.uk/
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