Regular readers of my blog will know that I am an enthusiast of Thomas Tallis’s work for fourety voices, Spem in Alium. If you haven’t heard it performed live there is an opportunity coming up in just a few weeks, for those who have no objection to attending evensong.

If you are north of the border you can hear Spem in Scotland on 2 July at the East Neuk festival, I’ll be there at the generous invitation of friends.

Then a week later there is what true artists call “a real humdinger” of a concert at Southwark Cathedral. I’ll be attending this one too – it will be very interesting to hear how the forty individual voices are able to fill a space as cavernous as Southwark.