Skolia Choir

A special performance of Spem in Alium by candlelight, part of the 2015 Brandenburg Choral Festival of London.

A percentage of ticket sales proceeds will go to benefit arts and mental health charity CoolTan Arts.

The spectacular 40-part motet, Spem in alium, forms the centrepiece of this beautiful a cappella programme from Skolia Choir. Elizabeth de Lacey’s dynamic leadership ensures that this will be a candlelight concert to catch!

Bach Singet dem Herrn
Knut Nystedt Immortal Bach
Gabrieli Jubilate Deo
Tavener Hymn to the Mother of God
Tallis Spem in alium

This concert lasts approximately one hour without an interval.

After purchasing a ticket you will receive an e-voucher from Brandenburg which you will need to bring along to the concert and exchange for a venue ticket at the St Martin-in-the-Fields box office.

Venue tickets will be available for collection an hour before the concert.

St Martins has a limited number of wheelchair spaces. If you would like to reserve a wheelchair space please check availability with emmathatcher@cooltanarts.org.uk before purchasing a ticket.

Spem in alium (Latin for Hope in any other) is a 40-part Renaissance motet by Thomas Tallis, composed in c. 1570 for eight choirs of five voices each, widely considered to be the greatest piece of English early music and one of the greatest choral works ever composed. Along with Tallis's Lamentations, H. B. Collins described it in 1929 as Tallis's crowning achievement.