Clare College Cambridge

The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge University, and conductor Graham Ross mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina with a concert performance in the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major, where the composer was a chorister. The 30-strong mixed-voice Choir of Clare College, founded in 1972, has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s leading undergraduate choirs. Their programme includes movements from two fine Lenten Mass settings, a magnificent five-part Magnificat secundi toni, and a triple-choir motet Ad te levavi oculos meos, alongside works by two of Palestrina’s English contemporaries, Robert White and William Byrd.