Had Purcell not written so much that was so great, his early death would not have been such a loss for English music. Yet had he not written so much that was so great, his posthumous fame would not bring such glory to English music. In this disc collecting the best known of his works written for Queen Mary, the full emotional range of Purcell's ...
The centerpiece of the Sixteen's collection of Christmas music by late Romantic and modern English composers is Britten's Ceremony of Carols. Harry Christophers, founder and conductor of the Sixteen, writes that performances of the piece have become so routine that practices alien to the composer's intent have become enshrined and unthinkingly ...
The Sixteen's compilation of three of its Christmas albums offers a generous and wide selection of seasonal music. The diversity of performance practices mastered by the English mixed ensemble, founded and conducted by Harry Christophers, shows that it has the stylistic range to persuasively put across repertoire from the medieval to the ...
As the forces named on the cover imply, this is a one-voice-per-part and also a one-instrument-per-part, performance, with the quartet of soloists taking choruses, chorales, and solo sections alike, and the string parts also reduced to a single instrument each. The jury is still out on this American-originated approach, which has gained adherents ...
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