The Tallis Scholars: Hail Mary

The Tallis Scholars are back in Cambridge for their 38th straight season with the Boston Early Music Festival, and this year’s program is a Christmas one. Director Peter Phillips leads the British ensemble through Renaissance music written to honor the Virgin Mary: settings of the Ave Maria and Salve Regina by Josquin, Tallis, Lassus and others, a newly commissioned piece by Matthew Martin, and festive Magnificats by Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz to open and close the night. Gramophone called their singing “flawless and marvelously transparent.”

Friday, Dec 4 at 7:30 PM at St. Paul Church, 29 Mount Auburn St, Harvard Square. Tickets are $30 to $140. Can’t make it in person? A virtual premiere streams Friday, Dec 11 at 8 PM and stays up through Dec 27.

Tickets: bemf.org.