Allegri's Miserere is most famous as the piece, which, by papal decree, could be performed only in the Sistine Chapel, but which the 14-year-old Mozart transcribed from memory after hearing it, according to his father. Peter Philips, the director of the mixed ensemble the Tallis Scholars, wrote in the program notes that the Miserere was performed ...
The small chorus that calls itself the Sixteen, together with its director Harry Christophers, has made numerous exemplary recordings of Renaissance and Baroque choral works, recording the music on its own Coro label and presenting it in compelling ways. The group doesn't have the purity of other Renaissance choirs, nor the power of other Baroque ...
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, founded in 1977 by Harry Christophers, is one of the world's outstanding vocal ensembles. The group of mixed voices is notable for the sweetness of its choral blend, its vocal discipline, and its mastery of a broad repertoire spanning the history of Western music, but with special emphasis on the Baroque and modern eras. This CD of ...
British choir the Sixteen is billed as being among "the Voices of Classic FM," the impressively successful British independent classical radio network. This mixed-gender adult group of (natch) 16 voices performs music ranging from the early English Renaissance to Mozart and, on occasion, the Romantics. An objection to their style might be that ...
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