Tallis Festival Tallis Festival The Tallis Festival, hosted by Exmoor Singers of London, forms the Tallis Festival Choir for just one weekend every 12 to 18 months. The Festival always includes Thomas Tallis' Spem in Alium for 40-part choir, but in addition has commissioned new 40-part works by modern composers, as companion pieces to Spem in Alium. In 2007 the Festival was recognised by the BBC for its contribution to new music and highlights from the Festival were broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 28 October 2007. The Festival originated from "Tallis Performance Weekends", held periodically over a number of years. The
The Tallis Scholars lingua" and "Missa La sol fa re mi". In 2011, the ensemble's recording of Allegri's "Miserere mei, Deus" in Merton College, Oxford in 1980 was named by "BBC Music Magazine" as one of the "50 Greatest Recordings of All Time". In 2013, the recording of John Taverner's "Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas" became the number one in the "UK Specialist Classical Chart". According to Philips, during the 1982-1983 concert season, the group formed its core that was more or less consistent for the next 25 years. Some singers left the Tallis Scholars to develop their successful solo careers; these included Michael