'Spem in alium', a 40 forty-part motet by Elizabethan composer Thomas Tallis (c.1505 -- 1585) was composed and first performed at Nonsuch Palace England in c.1570. It is sung here by the Tallis Scholars conducted by Peter Phillips. The work is designed to be sung by eight choirs of five voices each (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass) standing in a horseshoe shape in order to accentuate the antiphonal effects of the work.

The video is accompanied by photographs of some of England's Gothic cathedrals including Canterbury, St Alban's, Peterborough, Lincoln, Ely, Durham, Salisbury, Westminster Abbey, Exeter, Winchester, Wells, York Minster, Beverley Minster, Bath Abbey, Kings Cambridge and Nonsuch Palace.

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