Choir
The Choral Pilgrimage 2026: Lead, Kindly Light
The Sixteen
- Date night
- Under 90 mins
- First-timer friendly
- Early finish
- Date
- Sat, 12 Sept 2026
- Time
- 19:30 · 1h 30m
- Venue
- Tewkesbury Abbey
- City
- Tewkesbury
- Conductor
- Harry Christophers
- Tickets
- from £15
You'll be taken to the ensemble's official site.
Summary
Harry Christophers leads The Sixteen at Tewkesbury Abbey in a programme of Vivanco and Morales motets alongside contemporary commissions by Kerensa Briggs and James MacMillan.
Why it's fantastic
Spanning centuries of sacred music, this performance weaves intricate Renaissance polyphony together with contemporary commissions by James MacMillan and Kerensa Briggs. The soaring acoustics of the abbey provide the perfect resonance for these voices, offering a meditative space to experience how choral traditions have evolved over five hundred years.
Programme
- 01Vivanco - Christus factus est pro nobis
- 02Morales - Emendemus in Melius
- 03Vivanco - Assumpta est Maria
- 04Morales - Gaude et laetare Ferrariensis civitas
- 05Kerensa Briggs - Lead, kindly light (new commission)
- 06Vivanco - Magnificat Octavi toni
- 07Morales - Jubilate Deo omnis terra
- 08Vivanco - O quam suavis est, Domine
- 09Morales - Exaltata est sancta Dei Genitrix
- 10Morales - Lamentabatur Jacob
- 11Vivanco - Caritas Pater est
- 12James MacMillan - Nothing in vain (Commissioned in 2021 by the Genesis Foundation for Harry Christophers and The Sixteen)
