The King's Singers

The King’s Singers have set the gold standard in a cappella singing on the world’s greatest stages for over 50 years. This Grammy Award winning group returns to Melbourne in 2026 for one performance only, on 4th March at 7pm.

This vocal ensemble concert of the year, designed for the acoustics of St Paul’s Cathedral, will explore some of the glorious music that first echoed through the great cathedrals of the English Renaissance, from the simplicity of plainchant to the choral drama of masses and motets.

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Program

Sunrise               

Plainchant Videte miraculum

Nicholas Ludford (c.1485 - 1557) Gloria (from Missa Christe Virgo Dilectissima)

William Byrd (c.1543 - 1623) Vigilate

William Byrd (c.1543 - 1623) Agnus Dei Plainchant (Missa Pro Defunctis) 

William Byrd (c.1543 - 1623) Sanctus & Benedictus (from Mass for Five Voices)

Sunset                 

Thomas Weelkes (1576 - 1623) Hosanna to the son of David

Robert Stone (1516 - 1613) The Lord’s Prayer

Thomas Tallis (c.1505 - 1585)  Magnificat (from the ‘Dorian’ Service)

John Taverner (c.1490 - 1545)  O Wilhelme

William Mundy (1529 - 1591) Sive vigilem

Darkness           

Hildegard von Bingen (1098 - 1179) O Euchari (Antiphon)

Thomas Tallis (c.1505 - 1585) E’en like the hunted hind (Archbishop Parker’s Psalter)

John Sheppard (c.1515 - 1558) In manus tuas Domine (I)

Christopher Tye (c.1505 - 1572/3) Nunc Dimittis

Robert White (c.1538 - 1574) Christe qui lux es et dies (IV)