Fifty Shades Of Grey Spawns A Classical Hit (It's Tudor Church Music, No Less) During one of the many sex scenes in the wildly popular e-novel, our heroine uses as background music Thomas Tallis's ecstatic motet for 40 voices, Spem in alium - and now The Tallis Scholars' recording of the piece has gone zooming up the iTunes classical charts. The Telegraph (UK) 07/10/12