Handel's oratorios don't get any better than Samson. Composed directly after Messiah, Samson is a tragedy of Biblical proportions with standout roles for the soloists, wonderfully effective parts for the chorus, and brilliant scoring for the orchestra. In its day, Samson was one of Handel's most popular works, and it remained so up through the ...
Renée Fleming has succeeded in bringing Handel's operatic arias to the likes of the Late Show with David Letterman, and that's all to the good. For anyone whose appetite has been whetted by her Handel disc, Sarah Connolly's Heroes and Heroines: Handel would make an ideal follow-up purchase, one that gets a a little deeper into the music than does ...
When we last left Harry Christophers and his cracker jack a cappella chorus the Sixteen, they were making fabulous recordings for the wonderful Collins label. But that was back in the halcyon days of the CD boom, those far off times called the '90s, when everyone with a little capital and a lot of taste could start a record label. Back in the '90s ...
The early music choir the Sixteen has achieved unprecedented success with its bright, very English sound and accessible presentations. The Sixteen Edition, the series of which this Bach cantata disc is part, finds the group designated as "The Voices of Classic FM," Britain's middle-of-the-road and widely popular classical music broadcaster; the ...
This quintessentially British Mass in B minor was recorded in 1994 and has been reissued various times since its original release on the Collins label. The original sound, a product of London's St. Augustine's Church, conveyed the efforts of the Sixteen (actually a choir of 26 in this case) and the historical-instrument Symphony of Harmony & ...
The small British chorus called the Sixteen and director Harry Christophers have delivered consistently popular recordings of Renaissance and Baroque music, maintaining very high standards of performance. Here they couple two of the most popular Baroque works of all, Vivaldi's Gloria in D major, RV 589, and Bach's Magnificat in D major, BWV 243, ...
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 ...
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