Details

St Dunstan's Church
High Street
Mayfield
East Sussex
TN20 6AB
England

Monday 4th May 2026
7:30 PM

Tickets

Prices: £40, £27, £15 (25 and under: £5 any seat)
Booking line: 0333 666 3366 quoting ‘Mayfield Festival’
Ticket booking link: Book Tickets

Programme

Alessandro Striggio – Ecce beatam lucem à 40
Jeremy Summerly – Three British Folk Songs
David Bednall – Lux orta est iusto
Hildegard of Bingen – O Euchari
John Tavener – Hymn to the Mother of God
Thomas Tallis – Spem in alium nunquam habui à 40
Christopher Tye – Missa Euge Bone

Performers

Jeremy Summerly – Conductor

Oxford Camerata
Mayfield Consort

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Programme Note

Mayfield XL (Extra Large) swells the Mayfield choral ranks to Biblical proportions.

In 1561, Alessandro Striggio strapped the music for Ecce Beatam Lucem - his new 40-voice motet - to a donkey and toured it round Europe. This spurred Thomas Tallis to compose his own (even more impressive) 40-voice piece; the awe-inspiring Spem in Alium. In this performance, Oxford Camerata joins the Mayfield Consort to perform these XL (40)-part pieces ‘in the round’ (the manner in which they were written to be performed), as well as David Bednall’s 40- part Lux orta est iusto and a new commission by (very) young East Sussex composer Clemmie Dawson.