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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... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2017 More…

The choir is at its best in two movements selected from Antoine Brumel's Missa Et ecce terrae motus...The Gloria opens with some truly delicate singing, and the clear, restricted harmonies evoke... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Across the disc, complex polyphonic edifices are negotiated with Christophers’s intuitive suavity, and stretches of prayerful serenity are enlivened with a gear-changing dramatic lift here,... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Does Christmas sound different in America? Partly. Over half of the selections here are American in origin...Fascinating also to compare the American style of singing, more vigorous in attack... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

As we should expect, [the Welcome Songs] are cheerful pieces whose character is realised in the spontaneous responses of The Sixteen…Taken together these compositions produce a colourful chiaroscuro... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This is a disc which anybody remotely interested in Rubbra will want to purchase. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Inspired music matched by intensely heartfelt one-to-a-part performance. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Sixteen provide us with beauty in generous quantities, together with elegant phrasing, clear words and immaculate tuning — BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Britten's mastery of writing for unaccompanied chorus is here demonstrated in fine performances of works written between 1938 and 1975. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…