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A programme exploring majestic music from the Spanish Renaissance alongside spellbinding works from James MacMillan and Kerensa Briggs.
Spain’s Siglo de Oro, the Age of Gold, gave rise to some of the greatest sacred choral music of the Renaissance. We devote our latest Choral Pilgrimage to pieces by two outstanding Spanish composers, exploring majestic works by Cristóbal de Morales, famed throughout Europe and in the New World, and the exquisite polyphony of Sebastián de Vivánco, whose intricately crafted counterpoint adorned services at the cathedrals of Ávila and Salamanca during the late 1500s.
Our programme also features spellbinding settings of words by Saint John Henry Newman: Sir James MacMillan’s Nothing in Vain for soloists and double choir and the world premiere of Kerensa Briggs’ Lead, Kindly Light, specially commissioned for the Choral Pilgrimage.
The Choral Pilgrimage 2026: Lead, Kindly Light
Find out morePROGRAMME
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Vivanco
Christus factus est pro nobis
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Morales
Emendemus in Melius
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Vivanco
Assumpta est Maria
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Morales
Gaude et laetare Ferrariensis civitas
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Kerensa Briggs
Lead, kindly light (new commission)
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Vivanco
Magnificat Octavi toni
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Morales
Jubilate Deo omnis terra
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Vivanco
O quam suavis est, Domine
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Morales
Exaltata est sancta Dei Genitrix
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Morales
Lamentabatur Jacob
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Vivanco
Caritas Pater est
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James MacMillan
Nothing in vain (Commissioned in 2021 by the Genesis Foundation for Harry Christophers and The Sixteen)
PERFORMERS
- The Sixteen
- Harry Christophers conductor