More By Artist: The Sixteen. Harry Christophers
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JOHN SHEPPARD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sheppard - Church Music The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] Penguin Guide - Rosette Recording 'Superb' (Classic CD) |
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Masters of Imitation [ Coro / CD - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Imitation is the ultimate compliment. To take inspiration from someone else's work, to borrow and rework it to form another piece…what could be more flattering? This technique, known as 'parody', was hugely popular in late 16th-century Europe and... |
JAMES MacMILLAN / WILL TODD / ANNA SEMPLE / EOGHAN DESMOND / LISA ROBERTSON / EDWARD ELGAR
A Meditation The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 3/Jun/2022 ] The five new choral works on this album - by James MacMillan, Will Todd, Anna Semple, Eoghan Desmond and Lisa Robertson - all grew from a meditation by St John Henry Newman. Newman was a theologian of towering stature and broad influence. Canonised... |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Mess a quattro voci et salmi of 1650 Vol II The Sixteen & Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 13/Apr/2018 ] "..it is the chamber/consort music that really delights here: the Confitebor, flexibly sung by Elin Manahan Thomas, the bass duo (Stuart Young, Jimmy Holliday), and the Laetatus Sum for five instruments and six voices." Sunday Times |
BRITTEN / CARVER / GIBBONS / HANDEL / TALLIS / TURGES
Music of the Kingdom The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 28/Mar/2014 ] This new compilation from The Sixteen brings together some of the finest works written for, and in celebration of, Monarchs and the Kingdom. From Turges in the 1400s to Britten in the 20th century, whether for magnificent state occasions or private... |
PARRY / CAMPION / MCDOWALL
An Old Belief The Sixteen / Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 4/Mar/2022 ] 'This is a magical recording...Hats off to The Sixteen, and I look forward to the possibility of more recordings of English Romantic repertoire.' Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2022 |
ALLEGRI / BYRD / TALLIS / PALESTRINA / etc
Sacred Music - An Easter Celebration The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ BBC / Coro DVD / DVD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] Simon Russell Beale presents a special concert for Easter from LSO St Luke's in London, performed by the award-winning choir The Sixteen, conducted by founder Harry Christophers. The music takes us on a journey of over six hundred years, from... |
BACH / PURCELL / HANDEL / ALLEGRI / TAVENER / VIVALDI / FAURE / etc
The Sixteen - Sounds Sublime (incls 'Zadok the Priest', 'Ave verum corpus' & Allegri - Miserere) The Sixteen / Harry Christophers [ Coro / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Some of the most celebrated recordings from Harry Christophers and his award-winning ensemble. Equally appealing to fans of The Sixteen and those who are new to the group, this disc provides a definitive collection of familiar classics and... |
THOMAS TALLIS
Tallis: Spem in Alium : Music for Monarchs and Magnates The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Coro SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Oct/2009 ] "Beautiful music compellingly sung..The choice of music on this CD is wonderfully varied, scaling down from the Tallis to the poise of Byrd's intense Deus venerunt gentes for 10 voices." (Gramophone Editor's Choice Dec 2003) |
FIRSOVA / KORVITS / CADCIOLINI / MARTIN / SCARLATTI / etc
Spirit, Strength & Sorrow: Settings of Stabat Mater The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 15/Dec/2014 ] "All three [new settings] are touching and effective: imaginative in their choral sonorities and colouring of the text, skilfully balancing a strong feeling for tradition with a distinctive individual voice" Editor's Choice Gramophone, January |
LAMBE / PHIBBS / COOKE / MacMILLAN / HOUGH / CORNYSH / etc
Star of Heaven The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 1/Jan/2019 ] The Eton Choirbook is famous - and important - because it uniquely preserves some of the most spectacular music composed in Britain before the age of Purcell and Handel. Had this book not survived, literally dozens of superb pieces would have been... |
DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri The Sixteen / The Symphony of Harmony & Invention, Harry Christophers [ Linn Records / CD - released 25/Apr/2001 ] 2001 GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST - Baroque Vocal |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Esther (complete oratorio) The Sixteen, Harry Christophers, with Lynda Russell, Nancy Argenttta, Michael Chance, Tom Randle, Mark Padmore, Michael George, etc [ Coro / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/2004 ] "..as ever, the superb singing of The Sixteen is excitingly bright, agile, urgent and precise - demonstrating an ability to rattle through the finale's fast notes in a manner that Hogwood's Westminster Cathedral boys cannot." Gramophone |
HOWELLS / BRITTEN / WARLOCK / RAVENER / LEIGHTON
Hodie: Christmas Music Of 20th Century The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 1/Oct/2001 ] CORO is the award-winning record label of Harry Christophers and The Sixteen. Formed in 2001, CORO re-mastered, re-packaged and re-issued recordings of The Sixteen that were, for a short time, available on Collins Classics. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (complete with bonus CD) Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contralto) Mark Padmore (tenor) Christopher Purves (bass) / The Sixteen / Harry Christophers [ Coro / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2008 ] "a Messiah of splendid vitality and authority, a summation of Christophers's and The Sixteen's Handelian enterprise." International Record Review |
HANDEL
A Handel Celebration (concert recorded in 2009) Carolyn Sampson (soprano) / The Sixteen / Harry Christophers [ BBC / Coro DVD / DVD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] In this BBC Prom from the Royal Albert Hall the Sixteen capture some of Handel's most ebullient moments in concert performance, from the ever popular Arrival of the Queen of Sheba to the ubiquitous sounds of Zadok the Priest. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Saul (complete oratorio) Christopher Purves, Sarah Connolly, Robert Murray, Jeremy Budd / The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ CORO / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Baroque Vocal |
J. S. BACH
The Six Motets The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Oct/2014 ] "Splendid. A wonderful achievement, one that only renews our admiration for Bach. It has been six, maybe twelve months since I heard a record that impressed me as much as this one. Don't pass it by" (American Record Guide) |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Requiem (with Mozart-Ave verum corpus, K618, etc) Elin Manahan Thomas, Roderick Williams, Ruth Massey, Mark Dobell / The Sixteen / Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Harry Christophers [ Coro Live / CD - released 1/Apr/2008 ] The result of a brand new collaboration between two of the finest modern day exponents of classical music, this exquisite disc brings fresh life to Fauré's peerless Requiem and injects imaginative invention and poetic phrasing into two of Mozart's... |
HANDEL
Sacred Choral Works (Incls Nisi Dominus) Lynne Dawson, Lynda Russell, Charles Brett, Ian Partridge, Michael George / The Sixteen Choir & Orchestra, Harry Christophers [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 1/Jan/2005 ] |
