Programme

The
T llis
Scholars

From the Sistine Chapel
Grand Foyer
Wed
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The Tallis Scholars group portrait in studio
©: Hugo Glendinning

What you’ll hear and see

The music

  • Œuvres de Allegri, des Prés, Festa, Morales, Palestrina
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Kyrie (Missa «In te Domine speravi»)
  • Cristóbal de Morales Regina cæli
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Gloria (Missa «Tu es Petrus»)
  • Costanzo Festa «Quam pulchra es»
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Credo (Missa Papae Marcelli)
  • Gregorio Allegri Miserere
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Sanctus (Missa «Confitebor tibi domine»)
  • Josquin des Prés «Praeter rerum seriem»
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Agnus Dei (Missa brevis)

The artists

  • The Tallis Scholars vocal ensemble

The piece the Vatican kept secret for over a century.

For more than a hundred years, Allegri’s Miserere could only be heard inside the Sistine Chapel – the Vatican refused to let anyone copy the score. But legend has it that a 14-year-old Mozart heard it once, went home, and wrote the whole thing down from memory. The Tallis Scholars perform it here alongside music by Palestrina, des Prés, Festa and Morales – the very composers whose voices once filled those chapel walls as choristers. Now their notes fill the Philharmonie’s Foyer, where the acoustics give every moment room to breathe.
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Tickets

  • Free seating 28 €
Kulturpass welcome
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03.12.2026
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How to get here

Experience the concert as a part of the subscription: Au c(h)œur des colonnes

Let yourself be enchanted by these a cappella choirs in the spellbinding acoustics of the Foyer.