Sounds Sublime - The Essential Collection / Christophers, The Sixteen

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Coro
Release Date
September 1, 2009
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH VICTORIA MOZART
    • PERFORMER
      Essential Collection
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 01, 2009
    • UPC
      828021607325
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      COR16073
    • LABEL
      Coro
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. Magnificat anima mea

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    2. Ave Maria, gratia plena a 8

      Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    3. Ave verum corpus in D Major, K. 618

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    4. Iste Confessor, "La Stella"

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Performer: Libby Crabtree

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    5. Spem in alium

      Composer: Thomas Tallis

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    6. Man that is born of a woman, Z. 27

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    7. Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts, Z. 58A

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    8. Zadok the Priest, HWV 258: Zadok the Priest

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, The Sixteen Orchestra

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    9. Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45: IV. Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    10. Crucifixus a 8

      Composer: Antonio Lotti

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    11. 2 Hymns to the Mother of God: No. 1. A Hymn to the Mother of God

      Composer: John Tavener

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Duke Quartet

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    12. Te Deum: Te gloriosus

      Composer: António Teixeira

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    13. The Lark, Part I: Spring Song

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Performer: Nigel Short

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    14. Le Cantique des Cantiques: II. La voix du bien-aime

      Composer: Jean Yves Daniel-Lesur

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    15. Requiem, Op. 48: Pie Jesu (1900 version)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

      Performer: Elin Manahan Thomas

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    16. 7 Repons de tenebres: No. 1. Una hora

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    17. A Hymn of Saint Columba

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    18. Part II: Moses and the Children of Israel

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    19. Part II: I will sing unto the Lord

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Performer: Nicola Jenkin

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    20. Quoniam tu solus Sanctus

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Performer: Michael George, Roger Montgomery

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    21. Cum Sancto Spiritu

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    22. Solomon, HWV 67, Act III: Sinfonia, "The arrival of the Queen of Sheba"

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    23. Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339: Laudate Dominum

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    24. Miserere Mei

      Composer: Gregorio Allegri

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    25. Missa Papae Marcelli (Pope Marcellus Mass): Kyrie

      Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    26. Deus in adiutorium meum intende

      Composer: Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    27. O Domine Iesu Christe

      Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    28. Libera nos

      Composer: John Sheppard

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    29. Mass for Double Choir: Agnus dei

      Composer: Frank Martin

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    30. The Lamb

      Composer: John Tavener

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Duke Quartet

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    31. Missa pro defunctis a 6: Funeral motet: Versa est in luctum

      Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    32. Agnus Dei, Op. 11

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Performer: Ruth Dean

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    33. Advance Democracy

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    34. Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Hallelujah!

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, The Sixteen Orchestra

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    35. Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    36. Gloria in D Major, RV 589: Gloria in excelsis Deo

      Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    37. Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft, BWV 50

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    38. Samson, HWV 57, Act III: Air and Chorus: Let the bright Seraphim in burning row

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Performer: Lynne Dawson, Crispian Steele-Perkins

      Conductor: Harry Christophers


Highlights from some of the most celebrated recordings from Harry Christophers and his award-winning ensemble. Equally appealing to fans of The Sixteen and those who are new to the group, this disc provides a definitive collection of familiar classics and lesser-known treasures.

R E V I E W:
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 they tend to sound similar in all these repertories. This double-CD "essential collection" tends to reinforce that idea, but it also showcases the group's considerable strengths. To put it briefly, the Sixteen makes early music go down easy and does so without turning it completely into something different. The vocal surfaces are gorgeous, and each album contains a note by director Harry Christophers that touches on connections between the music's origins and its resonances in our own time. They sweat the details and that has never been more apparent than in this greatest-hits release. Most of the time such albums are left to label underlings and produced without imagination, but this one is beautifully packaged and has a full new set of notes concisely explaining the album's fresh concept. That concept is well thought-out; the album is not just a random selection of tracks somehow judged to be the best of the Sixteen, whose music-making is nothing if not consistent. Instead, each piece chosen is associated with a specific historical event, many of them significant junctures in British history. You couldn't ask for a better place to start in approaching unfamiliar music than to get a basic grip on its context in this way and then have it very attractively performed. The remastering is very strong; there's little sense of shifting sonic perspective even though the originals are drawn from a wide variety of this prolific group's releases. All this makes the album a fine introduction to one of modern Britain's most successful vocal groups.

-- All Music Guide