Upper East Side's Musica Viva NY Chamber Choir Presents Sacred Concert, Feb 22

New York City’s leading chamber choir, Musica Viva NY, presents EL CAMINO: Talbot, Casals and Victoria, a one-night only winter concert on the Upper East Side at All Souls NYC on Sunday, February 22, 2026, at 5:00 p.m with a pre-concert talk at 4:15pm. Weaving together voices of lament, resilience, and spiritual transformation across centuries, the acclaimed Musica Viva NY chorus takes listeners on a journey from lamentation to revelation. The program’s capstone is a 60-minute a capella masterpiece of the modern choral repertory: Path of Miracles by Joby Talbot.

Dramatizing the medieval religious pilgrimage along Spain’s famous Camino de Compostela, the four movements of Path of Miracles are titled with the names of the four main staging posts of the ‘Camino Frances,’ the central axis of a network of pilgrimage routes to Santiago. Written by British composer Joby Talbot (b.1971) with passages in English, Galician and Latin, this iconic and impactful piece made a lasting mark on the international choral scene. “This is musical mysticism at its richest and most greedy – grasping from all traditions and sources and treasuring each element in this musical collage. But it’s a work whose patchwork fragments need the energy of live performance to really knit, relying on the charge of emotion, of ritual, to integrate them into a larger artistic gesture.” (Gramophone)

Also on the program are two sorrowful O vos omnes, as well as a trio of African American spirituals blending traditional spiritual elements with complex choral layering and call-and-response. “It is hard to imagine, but there was a time when harmony was considered unruly,” explains Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez, Artistic Director & Conductor of Musica Viva NY. “Two people singing different notes was considered offensive when the Catholic Church decreed anything other than Gregorian chant or plainsong. With this in mind, we look forward to channeling our rebellious side and sharing these wonderful pieces of polyphony with today’s modern audiences.”

Ticketing + Program Information:

Sunday, February 22, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. (pre-concert talk at 4:15 p.m.)

All Souls NYC, 1157 Lexington Avenue, New York City, Train 6 to 77th St or 4/5/6 to 86th St

Tickets: $50 general/$30 students/FREE for children 12 and under. Tickets are available from MusicaViva.org.

Musica Viva NY choir

Musica Viva NY soloists

Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez, Artistic Director and Conductor

TOMÁS LUIS DE VICTORIA O Vos Omnes (1572)

PABLO CASALS O Vos Omnes (1942)

SPIRITUAL/arr. HARRY T. BURLIEGH My Lord, What a Morning (1918)

SPIRITUAL/arr. WILLIAM DAWSON There is a Balm in Gilead (1939)

SPIRITUAL/arr. MOSES HOGAN Elijah Rock (1994)

JOBY TALBOT Path of Miracles (2005)