‘O nata lux’ for Founder’s Choir

Thomas Tallis' O nata lux (c. 1565) ends on a suspended chord of quiet radiance. A work performed ands loved by choirs across the world. This new setting of the same text begins from that same chord, as if Tallis is still in the room. An omnipresent light. Where Tallis prays toward the light, this work imagines what it sounds like to stand within it. The voices reach out from the opening chord like beams of light in the night sky: appearing, dissolving, returning.

This work was written for Daniel Ayers and the Founder’s Choir of Royal Holloway for their 2026 summer tour to Hungary.

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