The award-winning ORA Singers celebrates its 10th anniversary year with a choral highlights programme featuring key works from its first decade. Alongside Renaissance polyphony by Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Victoria, Palestrina and others sit 10 contemporary pieces from its ground-breaking 100 commissions catalogue, including the world première of its 100th commission – In Manus Tuas by Brett Dean.

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ORA Singers; Suzi Digby OBE conductor

Wigmore Hall

Antoine Brumel’s ‘Earthquake’ Mass, Et ecce terrae motus, with its sumptuous scoring for 12 voices and mighty chordal harmonies, provides the frame for The Sixteen’s latest Wigmore Hall programme. Harry Christophers and his matchless choristers include other stirring pieces by some of Renaissance Europe’s greatest sacred composers, including Lassus’s Aurora lucis rutilat for 10 voices and the dark sonorities of Josquin’s motet Praeter rerum seriem

The Sixteen at St James’s, Spanish Place

The Gesualdo Six present a selection of Motets and Chansons from the French Court focusing on European Queens: Anne of Brittany, Marguerite d’Austria, Anne Boleyn and Mary Tudor. Reflecting on these earthly regencies, devotional motets for the Queen of Heaven are interwoven with texts from the Song of Songs, appropriated to venerate the Blessed Virgin, alongside specially written chansons and motets commemorating key moments in the reign of Europe’s Queens.

Gesualdo Six - Queen of Hearts

St John’s Church, Waterloo

In an imaginative program that builds a bridge between the 15th and 21st centuries, the superlative Tallis Scholars pair a masterwork of Renaissance polyphony with a new composition by composer David Lang.   Antoine Brumel’s colossal Earthquake Mass, scored for 12 voices, is a marvel in its imagination and scale, the intricate, dense music coming alive through the clarity, precision, and purity of tone that has been the hallmark of this ensemble’s performances for decades.   Lang, who is co-founder and co-artistic director of the groundbreaking new-music collective Bang on a Can, has composed dozens of award-winning works for choir and voice, from chamber works to oratorios to opera—and received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for another a cappella work, The Little Match Girl Passion. His sun-centered is a response to Brumel’s mass, inspired by Galileo’s pursuit of truth, the relentless nature of human curiosity, and the perils of suppressing it.   “The sound Phillips draws from the Scholars manages to be ethereal and yet full-blooded, uplifting and yet grounded in the very human emotions the words express” (The Guardian).

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Oct 24, 2026

ORA Singers; Suzi Digby OBE conductor · Wigmore Hall

Oct 7, 2026

The Sixteen at St James’s, Spanish Place · Wigmore Hall

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