The Sixteen reviews

The Sixteen reviews

Good night, beloved

The Sixteen/Harry Christophers; Christopher Glynn (piano) et al (CORO)
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Purcell: Royal Welcome Songs for King Charles II, Vol. 3

The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (CORO)
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James MacMillan: The Sun Danced; Symphony No. 5

The Sixteen; Genesis Sixteen; Britten Sinfonia/Harry Christophers, et al (CORO)
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Monteverdi: Messa a quattro voci et Salmi of 1650, Vol. 2: plus works by Cavalli and Piccinini

The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Coro)
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Purcell: Royal Welcome Songs for King Charles II

The Sixteen; The Sixteen Orchestra/Harry Christophers (Coro)
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The Call of Rome

The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (CORO)
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Star of Heaven:
 The Eton Choirbook Legacy

The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Coro)
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The Sixteen sing MacMillan's Stabat Mater

The string orchestra in James MacMillan’s Stabat Mater does much more than merely accompany the singers. The attenuated, anxious threnody at the work’s opening runs over four minutes; later in the same movement recurring whiplash chords mimic the piercing sorrows of Mary, and MacMillan conjures a manic flapping effect, like locusts’ wings beating, as the torments of the crucified Christ are contemplated.

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The Sixteen perform Rubbra's Tenebrae Nocturns, Missa Cantuariensis and Motets, Opp. 37 & 76

Rubbra’s choral music doesn’t loudly invite you in; you have to want to go there. As such, it poses difficulties for performers attempting to capture the listener’s attention, without artificially pumping up these spiritually inward-looking, deliberately unshowy pieces. In these consummate performances by The Sixteen, those difficulties dissolve away to nothing. 

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The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers perform works by Monteverdi and Cavalli

In 1650, seven years after Monteverdi’s death, the Venetian publisher Alessandro Vincenti produced a volume collecting together a Mass and some psalm settings by the composer, most of which had not been published before. He was probably aided in this venture by the composer’s successor at St Mark’s, Francesco Cavalli, whose Magnificat setting was also included, thus providing settings of all the central items for Vespers services.

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