Wimbledon International Music Festival: The Sixteen

A stunning programme of music from the golden age of renaissance polyphony by English composers John Sheppard, Richard Davy and William Mundy.

Mundy's monumental work Vox patris caelestis, the text of which comes from the Song of Songs, can be considered as the culmination of the great antiphon tradition.

Sheppard’s musical style contains all the grandness of English harmonic invention. The programme includes his glorious seven-part work Libera nos as well as his sublime Gaude, gaude, gaude Maria.

Davy is the second most represented of all the composers in the Eton Choirbook and the mere fact that his music survived the Reformation is nothing short of a miracle. It is believed he wrote his monumental O Domine caeli terraeque in the span of a single day during his time at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Harry Christophers says "Each one of these works is a real gem just waiting to be discovered by a wider audience. This music is part of our great heritage and I look forward to you joining us on this pilgrimage of discovery."