“If 21st century western culture had different values, perhaps the Royal Concert Hall would have been encircled on Sunday night by international TV crews reporting on human ingenuity at its most mind-boggling. Instead miracles were allowed to happen calmly and quietly: no razzmatazz but plenty of awe and wonder.

“Ex Cathedra, one of the UK’s leading choirs and Early Music ensembles, scaled one of the supreme pinnacles of the choral repertoire, Tallis’s 40-part motet Spem in alium…”

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