popular music: The Sixteen

popular music: The Sixteen

popular music:

The Sixteen

Britten Choral Works II: A Ceremony of Carols
Benjamin Britten, The Sixteen, ...

Coro, 2005

This recording celebrates some of Britten's finest choral music for Christmas, together with his Missa Brevis. It is headed by the much-loved A Ceremony of Carols, a masterpeice composed on board ship as Britten returned to England from the U.S.A. in 1942. The telling use of the harp as accompaniment helps to suggest a touching evocation of ...

Low Estate

Sixteen Horsepower

A&M, 1998

Buy this or go to Hell
How else do you intro a Christian Rock band? :) A friend of mine introduced me to 16 Horsepower. I was doubtful because I'm not Christian and I couldn't imagine myself buying a CD by a professed Christian Rock band, now I'm a dyed in the wool fan. Many times the ...

Bach Edition: Complete Works (155 CD Box Set)

Johann Sebastian Bach, Andrew Manze, ...

Brilliant Classics, 2006

Wonderful, wonderful music
Even though I have a lot of other Bach records, this is different, like being in the ocean. What a joy. Buy it; it's unbelievable. The organ works, violin and harpsichord material, and most concertos and orchestral works, have NOTHING wrong with them per se; if you ...

Handel: Messiah [Includes Bonus CD]

Christopher Purves, Robert Evans, ...

Coro, 2008

Impeccable, not stuffy, from a landmark of early music
I had the extreme pleasure of working with Mr. Christophers less than a month after this recording was made when he came to Boston to work with the Handel & Haydn Society on our annual Messiah. What many of us in the choir were expecting was another "white" performance ...

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

George Frideric Handel, Harry Christophers, ...

Chandos, 1994

Why aren't these better known?
It boggles my mind that this seems still to be the only complete set of the Anthems available on CD. The first of the discs came out in 1989 or so and volumes 1 and 2 were among the first CDs I ever bought (late adopter, I admit); I eagerly awaited and bought the ...

Fauré: Requiem

Gabriel Faure, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ...

Coro, 2008

reaching for paradise
This recent disc, recorded live in concert at London's Barbican Hall, brings together an unlikely pairing: Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore (K.339), composed in 1780, and Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, composed around 1887. A hundred years separate the two choral ...

Sackcloth 'n' Ashes

Sixteen Horsepower

Fontana a&M, 1996

Bandoneon?
I think I'd have to look up the spelling which I wont since this is a music review and not a written' review. Anyway a Band0neon is like an accordian but different in ways I dont understand, they feature this instument on a number of cuts with very haunting results.The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Handel - Alexander's Feast / Argenta, Partridge, George, The Sixteen, Christophers

George Frideric Handel, Harry Christophers, ...

Coro, 2005

Handel's Great "Feast" in an Impeccable Rendition
"Alexander's Feast," Handel's 1736 setting of Dryden's ode in honor of St. Cecilia's Day (patron saint of music) is a masterpiece and a delight, but its odd length - too long for a mixed program, too short for a full evening - gave Handel trouble and apparently still ...

Victoria: The Mystery of the Cross
Tomas Luis de Victoria, The Sixteen, ...

Coro, 2005

"This is what recording should be about ... excellent performances and recorded sound ... beautiful and moving." -GRAMOPHONE Scholar, mystic, priest, singer, organist, and composer ? six persons all rolled into one and that is, quite simply, why Victoria was the most outstanding composer of the Spanish Renaissance. His music, highly dramatic and ...

Christmas Music from Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Christopher Hodges, Jeremy White, ...

Hyperion UK, 1993

The most beautiful music--and not just for Christmas!
If you like Medieval and Renaissance music you will absolutely love this CD. I bought it as a Christmas CD years ago and I listen to it year around. The harmonies are beautiful. I have given it to friends for presents. I have CDs of music from this time period but this ...

Bach: Christmas Oratorio (Weihnachts Oratorium)

Bach, The Sixteen, ...

Coro, 2003

Outstanding performance
Harry Christopher and The Sixteen offer up a lively, energetic reading of Bach's (so-called) Christmas Oratorio, a work that should be heard more often in the USA than it is. The performance of the first chorus of Cantata I, "Jauchzet, frohlocket," bursts with ...

Thomas Tallis: Sacred Choral Works

Thomas Tallis, Harry Christophers, ...

Chandos, 1992

Wonderful music
--Thomas Tallis- Thomas Tallis, born in 1505, was one of the outstanding liturgical composers of his day, being the acknowledged master of the composers of England from the time of Queen Mary's reign forward. He was a composer and Gentleman of the Chapel Royal during ...