Award-winning vocal group The Sixteen will sing of conflict and atonement in a concert at Truro Cathedral with conductor Harry Christophers on May 26.

As part of the Choral Pilgrimage 2017, The Sixteen will present a programme focusing on music by Palestrina and Poulenc to explore the themes of conflict and atonement.

Palestrina’s mass based around the famous L’homme armé melody was immensely popular in the 15th century and its warlike nature is still a relevant reminder of the savagery of conflict.

Un soir de neige, composed by Poulenc in December 1944, reflects the bleak solitude of another winter of occupation in France but also evokes the inner feeling of peace associated with Christmas. The programme also includes Poulenc’s Salve Regina, Quatre motets pour un temps de penitence and Agnus Dei from Mass in G, as well as Palestrina’s Surge amica mea and Surgam et circuibo civitatem from Songs of Songs, Parce mihi, Domine, Peccantem me quotidie and Salve Regina.

The concert begins at 7.30pm, and tickets are available from £12 at thesixteen.com