Keeping the faith

Expect the customary variety at Viva Voce's year-end concert.

- RICHARD BETTS

John Rosser is remembering a Tallis Scholars concert he attended in the 1980s. It's the sort of gig you'd expect to find him at; he's a choirman through and through. "My dad was a church organist," Rosser says. "I've been singing from birth."

The UK ensemble is a revered chamber choir, credited with unearthing numerous forgotten works of the Renaissance.

The group sang the initial part of the Eton Choirbook, a collection of late-mediaeval polyphony deemed so important it was the first music manuscript to be listed on Unesco's UK Memory of the World, which collects documents of national significance.