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The Tallis Festival is a music festival based on the work of the composer
Thomas Tallis Thomas Tallis (23 November 1585; also Tallys or Talles) was an English composer of High Renaissance music. His compositions are primarily vocal, and he occupies a primary place in anthologies of English choral music. Tallis is considered one o ...
. It is hosted by Exmoor Singers of London, which forms the Tallis Festival Choir for one weekend every 12 to 18 months. The festival always includes Thomas Tallis's ''
Spem in alium ''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. It is considered by some critics to be the greatest piece of English early music. H. B. ...
'' for 40-part choir, but in addition has commissioned new 40-part works by modern
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, as companion pieces to ''Spem in alium''. In 2007 the Festival was recognised by the
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for its contribution to new music and highlights from the Festival were broadcast on
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/ref> on 28 October 2007. The Festival originated from ''Tallis Performance Weekends'', held periodically over a number of years. The original concept was to bring choral friends together for intense rehearsals from a Friday evening through to a public concert on the Sunday evening. Choirs of between 100 and 160 singers are formed with choral singers from around
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and further afield (including
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,
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and
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New 40-part choral works

In 2006, a new 40-part work was commissioned and given its first performance: ''Tentatio'', from
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composer
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. ''Tentatio'', meaning Temptation, is based on a
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text about
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spending 40 days in the wilderness and being tempted by the
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. Instead of eight 5-part choirs as used by Tallis, Mäntyjärvi wrote the work for five 8-part choirs, with the fifth choir being formed entirely of
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and baritones and depicting the devil. In 2007, another new 40-part work was commissioned: ''Love You Big as the Sky'', from Mancunian composer
Peter McGarr Peter McGarr (born 28 May 1953) is an English classical composer and teacher, working in the English experimental tradition and inspired by Northern English landscape and culture. Biography McGarr was born in Openshaw, Manchester, and attended ...
, subtitled 'a
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Love Song' and inspired by the island on the Northumbrian coast of England. The text is extensive and covers poems about Lindisfarne, and the detailed geography of the area, including ship wrecks and lighthouses. It is also a love song and includes text taken from a
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card as part of its inspiration. The first performance of ''Love You Big as the Sky'' was broadcast in full on BBC Radio 3 as part of the Festival coverage.


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Exmoor Singers websitePeter McGarr's websiteBBC Radio 3 The Choir
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