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Handel: Saul
Christopher Purves (Saul), Sarah Connolly (David), Robert Murray (Jonathan), Elizabeth Atherton (Merab), Joélle Harvey (Michal), Mark Dobell (High Priest), Jeremy Budd (Witch of Endor) & Stuart Young (Ghost of Samuel)
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
the choruses are always beautifully contoured, as is the incisive playing of The Sixteen's house band. Christopher Purves and Sarah Connolly all but steal the show: Purves's splenetic Saul is... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2012, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Carol of the Bells
Alexandra Kidgell, Edward McMullan, Mark Dobell, Robert Macdonald, Ben Davies, Rob Macdonald, Katy Hill, Tim Jones, Charlotte Mobbs, George Pooley
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
The Sixteen have been around so long (40 years and counting) that it is easy to take them for granted. This newly recorded Christmas disc, however, acts as a sharp reminder of the choir’s abiding... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, Christmas Choice
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Christophers positions himself halfway between the Purcells and Amsterdamers, settling on a choir of eight voices with predictably transparent results...Christophers's customary precision and... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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On their journey through Palestrina’s works The Sixteen have provided us with another surprising and delightful vista. — More…
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The subtle ebb and flow of the speed in Vox dilecti, for example, exactly matches the quickening emotions at the sound of the voice of the beloved, and the ascending musical motives at the call... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Sacred Music: A Christmas History & A Choral Christmas
RecommendedPresented by Simon Russell Beale
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Together [Beale and Christophers] form a fascinating insight into the way Christmas music has developed over the millennia from a fragment of papyrus preserving the earliest known piece of Christian... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th December 2011
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Highlights include Lisa Robertson’s inventive, ethereal a cappella vision ...a link in a chain...; MacMillan’s complex, 11-minute Nothing in vain...and a thrilling performance of the ‘For Lo,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2022, Editor's Choice
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Haydn: Symphony No. 103 & Theresienmesse
Mary Bevan (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Jeremy Budd (tenor), Sumner Thompson
Handel and Haydn Society, Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, Harry Christophers
The Theresienmesse especially suits this orchestra’s sound, which is a touch softer-grained than some other period-instrument groups. — More…
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Christophers’s juxtapositions are always rewarding, and The Sixteen is on ravishing form. There’s an unmannered generosity to the singing whose wide-eyed freshness enables Christophers to keep... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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Of the three contemporary works featured, Matthew Martin's is technically the most ambitious...It's an absorbing, highly accomplished piece of vocal writing, tailor-made to stretch a choir of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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