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Handel: Jephtha RecommendedJames Gilchrist (Jephtha), Susan Bickley (Storge), Sophie Bevan (Iphis), Robin Blaze (Hamor), Matthew Brook (Zebul) & Grace Davidson (Angel)
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Christophers's taut, vibrant, and beautifully sprung account is bright and dazzling, yet so often the score ought to inhabit the tortured light and shade of Caravaggio...the choruses are finely... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Building a Library, January 2018, First 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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Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610) Grace Davidson, Charlotte Mobbs (sopranos), Simon Berridge, Jeremy Budd, Mark Dobell (tenor) & Ben Davies, Eamonn Dougan (bass)
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Christophers sees Monteverdi attempting here to 'speak through singing'...and this, he tells us, allows the conductor 'the most amazing licence' - of accentuation, speed and declamation. Hence... — More…
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This is a fascinating lesson in the art of creative transcription by a master transcriber. Both Masses bring out the relaxed and avuncular in Christophers...With scrupulous instrumental underpinning,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, Editor's Choice
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Vivaldi & Handel Grace Davidson (soprano)
Academy of Ancient Music, Bojan Čičić (leader), Joseph Crouch (artistic director)
By turns achingly lyrical and sprinkled with vocal fireworks, Handel’s motets present a winning showcase for a soprano such as Davidson, blessed with the ability to soar, to warm a note with... — More…
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The Sixteen sing Handel & Steffani Elin Manahan Thomas & Grace Davidson (soprano), Ruth Massey (alto), Jeremy Budd & Mark Dobell (tenor) & Eamonn Dougan & Rob Macdonald (bass)
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
The Sixteen's sincere and nourishing performance does glorious justice to Steffani's profoundly moving and lovely setting. The Sixteen's Dixit Dominus… retains only three musicians from two... — More…
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Christophers tells us that the basic approach here is to allow the performers to ‘speak through singing’, and to treat the changes of time and metre ‘intuitively’ rather than with scholarly... — More…
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As we might expect, The Sixteen performances are lively and nicely tuned...Throughout, the instrumental playing is sensitive and supportive — More…
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The Selva morale e spirituale Collection Celebrating the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi’s birth
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
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The Sixteen’s complete recording of the Selva morale collection has been praised in these pages, and the qualities of ensemble are certainly worth noting here also. They are heard to best effect... — More…
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