More By Artist: The Sixteen. Harry Christophers
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FINZI / HOLST / MACONCHY / STANFORD / SULLIVAN / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Sirens' Song Harry Christophers & The Sixteen [ Coro / CD - released 1/Sep/2023 ] What would singing be without words? When you combine wonderful poetry with exquisite music, the result is magical. In a rare break from the sacred collections they are famed for, this album from The Sixteen features a whole programme of secular... |
SACRED MUSIC
Sacred Music: a story spanning six centuries Simon Russell Beale / The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ BBC / Coro DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] Series One of the BBC's groundbreaking classical music programme follows renowned actor and former chorister Simon Russell Beale as he explores the flowering of Western sacred music. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Into the Light The Sixteen (Featuring Kaori Muraji, guitar) / Harry Christophers [ Decca / CD - released 18/Feb/2007 ] The beautiful blend of Britain's best-loved choir and a chart-topping Japanese guitarist...Marrying centuries of great European choral tradition with the sublime sonorities and simplicity of the classical guitar. |
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI da PALESTRINA
Palestrina Volume 9 The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 16/Jun/2023 ] Palestrina's music is exquisite and sumptuous- characterised by a richness of texture and purity of sound. From his sacred Masses to settings of the secular Song of Songs, The Sixteen brings this serene and delicate soundworld to sparkling life.... |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Royal Welcome Songs for Charles II The Sixteen Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 4/Sep/2020 ] Purcell's genius abounds throughout the latest volume of The Sixteen's celebrated exploration of his music for monarchy. Rarely recorded in recent years, Harry Christophers and his award-winning ensemble breathe fresh life into these exquisite works,... |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Royal Welcome Songs for King James II The Sixteen Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] "Christophers coaxes virtuosic performances from eight members of the Sixteen, with a fine band of period instrumentalists revelling in the glories of Purcell's unique harmonic palette. Recommended." Observer |
BYRD / van WILDER / de MONTE / TABAKOVA / CLEMENTS
The Sixteen - A Watchful Gaze The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 3/Mar/2023 ] "Christophers's juxtapositions are always rewarding, and The Sixteen is on ravishing form. There's an unmannered generosity to the singing whose wide-eyed freshness enables Christophers to keep the counterpoint buoyant and uncongested." BBC Music |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Chandos Anthems Volume 4 Lynne Dawson (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor) / The Sixteen Choir & Orchestra, Harry Christophers [ Chaconne / CD ] The Sixteen are a United Kingdom-based choir and period instrument orchestra; founded by Harry Christophers, they started as an unnamed group of sixteen friends in 1977, giving their first billed concert in 1979. The group performs early English... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Acis and Galatea (complete opera) Jeremy Budd, Grace Davidson, Stuart Young, Mark Dobell / The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Coro / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2019 ] "As is not uncommon in Acis, honours here are stolen by the splendidly virile but not entirely unsympathetic Polyphemus of Stuart Young, while the pure cantabile lines of Grace Davidsons's sweetly vulnerable Galatea also give much pleasure." Opera |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel Choruses Michael Chance (counter-tenor), Simon Birchall, Lynda Russell, Mark Padmore (tenor) The Sixteen, The Sixteen Orchestra, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] Is there another composer who can match Handel's genius for writing choruses? He is quite simply the master of chorus and on this compilation of tracks, taken from The Sixteen's award-winning Handel back-catalogue, there is much rejoicing. Revel in... |
WILLIAM BYRD
Byrd: Psalmes, Songs and Sonnets (1611) The Sixteen, Fretwork, Harry Christophers [ Coro / 2 CD - released 7/Oct/2022 ] "This is a landmark release finally addressing one of the most obvious oversights in Byrd's recorded catalogue. It's an exquisite album of unparalleled beauty that will bear repeated listening long past the anniversary year" Gramophone Award Finalist |
BRUMEL / DESPRES / LASSO
The Earth Resounds The Sixteen, Harry Christophers & Eamonn Dougan [ Coro / CD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] Josquin, Brumel and Lassus were truly European composers, leaving their origins to work in the top establishments of Aix-en-Provence, Ferrara, Rome and Munich. Their music has a unique sonority which will astound you all - from the depth of... |
MARCIN MIELCZEWSKI
Mielczewski: Deus, in nomine tuo, etc The Sixteen, Harry Christophers & Eamonn Dougan [ Coro / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] "Performances are of the standard one would expect from The Sixteen, the singers moving effortlessly between 'old' and 'new' styles, featuring some outstanding solo contributions in the concertato works." Gramophone |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Carol Of The Bells The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] "Mike Hatch's pitch-perfect engineering frames a disc which shies away from the commercial clamour of Christmas, to a more contemplative, spiritual experience" Five Stars BBC Music Christmas Choice 2021 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
An Enduring Voice The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] All of the music from The Choral Pilgrimage 2019 The Sixteen has long been hailed for its championing of Tudor music, especially that of the Eton Choirbook, as well as for choral treasures of 20th century and its work with 21st-century composers.... |
FRANCISCO GUERRERO / ALONSO LOBO
Flight of Angels The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] The Sixteen takes a trip back to 16th-century Spain and more specifically to one of the biggest, richest and most cosmopolitan cities on earth - Seville. It was during this 'golden age', when arts and culture flourished, that Francisco Guerrero and... |
NAYLOR / MAXWELL DAVIES / MacMILLAN / CHILCOTT / CORNYSH / STANFORD / etc
Good Night, Beloved The Sixteen. Harry Christophers, with Mark Dobell, George Pooley, Rob Macdonald, Jeremy Budd, and, Ben Davies [ Coro / CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] "The disc's title track is a highlight: 'Good night, good night, beloved' by 19th-century Italian composer Ciro Pinsuti is a melodious part song which receives a gloriously unbuttoned reading here." BBC Music |
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 |
FAYRFAX / HYGONS / TURGES / BROWNE / ANONYMOUS / CORMYSH
The Rose and The Ostrich Feather: Eton Choirbook Volume I The Sixteen. Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 16/Nov/2004 ] "wonderful music, wonderfully performed ... sit back and let these glorious sounds fill your ears and lift your spirits." GRAMOPHONE |
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... |
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 |
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: Delirio Amoroso: Italian Secular Cantatas Ann Murray (soprano) The Sixteen. Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 8/Apr/2005 ] " ... a dazzling revelation of (Handel's) melodic freshness and inventive touch...Ann Murray sings superlatively." |
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 ] |
J.S. BACH
Cantatas 34, 50, 147 Gillian Fisher, David James, Ian Partridge, Michael George / The Sixteen / Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 11/Nov/2006 ] "The Sixteen are, as usual, in excellent form here… Recording and remastering are top-notch; notes and texts are complete. Thanks to CORO, many choral collectors who never got around to taking their full pick of this legendary group's old Collins... |
MONTEVERDI
Vespers of 1610 Grace Davidson, Charlotte Mobbs, Simon Berridge, Jeremy Budd, Mark Dobell, Ben Davies, Eamonn Dougan / The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Coro / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] "…[this performance] gives a sense of how shockingly modern Monteverdi's Vespers must have seemed to those used to Palestrina and the like. For a work with which we are now so familiar, that is no small achievement." (International Record Review) |
PARRY / HARRIS / STANFORD / STAINER / HOWELS
I Was Glad Harry Christophers and The Sixteen [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 5/May/2011 ] Includes choral works used at the 2011 Royal wedding - Few choirs in the world today offer greater precision, musicianship and sheer beauty of sound than The Sixteen. This collection offers the great anthems of English Choral Music over the past 100... |
J. S. BACH
Bach Masses Harry Christophers & The Sixteen [ Coro / 2 CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] Bach's four Lutheran Masses feature almost no Lutheran material at all. Sometimes called 'Missa brevis', musically they are almost entirely made up of movements borrowed from Bach's Cantatas. While often overshadowed by the more famous Mass in B... |
