classical music: Harry Christophers

classical music: Harry Christophers

classical music:

Harry Christophers

A Mother's Love - Music for Mary
Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

UCJ Music, 2008

Britain s best-selling choir of the 21st Century, The Sixteen, releases a new album of music inspired by the Virgin Mary. Harry Christophers, the most prolific choral conductor of modern times, directs the choir performing a disc of Marian songs ranging from medieval composers like Palestrina, and Lassus through Bruckner and Liszt, all the way to ...

Allegri Miserere - The Sixteen 25th Anniversary Edition

Allegri, Palestrina, ...

CORO, 2003

BEATS FOOTBALL
There I was sitting in the car - listening to the football: Derby V Southampton. Saints were winning - thank you God. I was also waiting for my two lads who were in a boxing session. I turned the radio to Classic FM - and there is was: The Sixteen Miserere. I was ...

Ikon

Pavel Chesnokov, Gustav Holst, ...

Decca, 2006

"Music for the Soul and Spirit" is a most appropriate title!
IKON is yet another release from The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers, an amazingly gifted group that here presents music throughout the ages meant to elevate the soul from the cleavage of the earth to peaks of serenity that only music of this manner can ...

Monteverdi: Mass for four voices; Mass for Six voices 'In Illo Tempore'

Claudio Monteverdi, Harry Christophers, ...

Hyperion UK, 2003

Fantastico
Fantástico. Execução perfeita e ótima qualidade de gravação. A melhor versão que já ouvi do Cantate Domino e da Missa da capela para 4 vozes. As vozes são esplêndidas, claras e muito bem equilibradas. Os instrumentos são precisos e estão à altura do madrigal.

George Frideric Handel: Esther

Michael George, George Frederick Handel, ...

CORO, 2004

a voice teacher and early music fan
BIG IDEAS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES Handel began composing the oratorio 'Esther' in 1718. There is some confusion as to who actually wrote the libretto for it, but the story follows very closely the biblical story of Esther in the Book of Esther in the old testament. ...

Renaissance: Music for Inner Peace

The Sixteen

Decca, 2005

Great Music, Fine Performances
First off, the title of this album is misleading. Only one of the tracks stems from the high Renaisance. The rest span from the Reformation period to contemporary. All of them are liturgical, all of a certain calm and meditative style--which could be inferred from ...

Fauré: Requiem
Gabriel Faure, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ...

Coro, 2008

Faure Requiem / Mozart Ave, verum Corpus; Vespers The result of a brand new collaboration between two of the finest modern day exponents of classical music, this exquisite disc brings fresh lifeblood to Fauré's peerless Requiem and injects imaginative invention and poetic phrasing into two of Mozart's choral masterpieces. Recorded at the ...

Victoria Call of the Beloved
Sixteen, Christophers

Coro, 2003

The great Spanish composer and priest, Victoria, devoted his life to writing supremely uplifting and intense music throughout the church calendar. The Call of the Beloved includes some of the earliest triple-choir music ever to be published and is a reminder of Victoria's joyous and passionate music, complementing his more austere Requiem and ...

Classic Chillout, Vol. 2

Various Artists

EMI Classics, 2004

Great Classical Spectrum
These cd's are a great set of varied classical music. Pavane is my favorite. Additionally, Classical Chillout 2 offers theme music from Harry Potter and it is very well done.

Shall We Gather - American Hymns and Spirituals

American Anonymous, William Appling, ...

Albany Records, 2001

Brilliant
I couldn't recommend a CD more highly. As a musician I was amazed at the variety of the music here and the truly exceptional performances. It's seems we can always rely on Albany to put out the most interesting and highest quality recordings.

Handel - Chandos Anthems (Complete) / Dawson · Kwella · Bowman · Partridge · M. George · The Sixteen · ...

George Frideric Handel, Harry Christophers, ...

Chandos, 1994

Excellent - one of the best Handel CD's availible.
This baroque era "Praise Music" is light years beyond the vacuous pablum that passes for praise music in churches today. I have had these four CD's for almost a decade (previous release) and they are still among my favorites. Almost all the songs (all the spoken music ...

Victoria: Devotion to our Lady
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

Coro, 2005

The long-established tradition of devotion to the Virgin Mary resulted in some superb settings from Spanish composers. Supreme among them, Victoria set some of his finest music to Marian texts. This recording showcases works for eight parts, some of them for two antiphonal choirs discreetly accompanied by organ and bajon, all displaying the ...

Early Music (Lachrymae Antiquae)

Jack Body, John Cage, ...

Nonesuch, 1997

one of their best
If you like simple, string quartet music as much as I do, then you've got to listen to this. It is a generous 68 minutes of plaintive music--no discontinuities and surpises like on their Black Angels recording. It is all slow and mournful.

Victoria: Requiem 1605

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

Coro, 2005

Beautiful
I heard this concert in Winchester Cathedral. Amazing, simply beautiful music. Contains songs from other recordings by the Sixteen, but excellent nonetheless.

Gregorian Chillout

Anonymous, Johannes Brahms, ...

EMI Classics, 2003

Some of the most beautiful music ever...
Like I said, this is some of the most beautiful music ever written. I've never considered myself a religious person, but something about this music evokes a sense of reverence in me that gives me chills every time I listen to it. If you're a fan of Enigma, give this ...