Thomas Tallis · 1505–1585
Spem in alium
Performed by Janet Cardiff · 2:03
Extract from " Spem in alium ", a 40-part Renaissance motet by the English composer Thomas Tallis, composed c. 1570 for eight choirs of five voices each. Sound excerpt from Janet Cardiff's The Forty Part Motet (2001), a re-working of Spem in Alium (1556?/1573?) by Thomas Tallis. Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10 September – 8 December 2013. Spem in alium nunquam habui Praeter in te, Deus Israel Qui irasceris et propitius eris et omnia peccata hominum in tribulatione dimittis Domine Deus Creator caeli et terrae respice humilitatem nostram I have never put my hope in any other but in Thee, God of Israel who canst show both wrath and graciousness, and