More By Artist: The Sixteen. Harry Christophers
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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 |
The Sixteen. Harry Christophers
The Rose and The Ostrich Feather: Eton Choirbook Volume I (Music by Robert Fayrfax, Richard Hygons & others) [ 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... |
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... |
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... |
FRANCIS POULENC
Francis Poulenc Harry Christophers & The Sixteen [ Coro / CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] Francis Poulenc is considered one of the greatest melodists of the 20th century but it is his individual and immediately recognisable harmonic language that makes his music so distinctive. Often overlooked in his lifetime and in the years after his... |
