See 20 performances featuring The SixteenAfter thirty-one years of world-wide performance and recording, The Sixteen is recognised as one of the world’s greatest ensembles. Comprising both choir and period instrument orchestra, The Sixteen’s total commitment to the music it performs is its greatest distinction. A special reputation for performing early English polyphony, masterpieces of the Renaissance, bringing fresh insights into Baroque and early Classical music and a diversity of twentieth-century music, is drawn from the passions of conductor and founder, Harry Christophers.
Since 2001 The Sixteen has been building its own record label, CORO, which has recently released its seventy-sixth recording featuring Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Steffani’s Stabat Mater. Other recent recordings include Brahms’s German Requiem, “Treasures of Tudor England” (music by Parsons, Tye and White) which accompanied The Choral Pilgrimage in 2008, Fauré’s Requiem with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Handel’s celebrated oratorio, Messiah, with an all-star soloist line-up: Carolyn Sampson, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mark Padmore and Christopher Purves, which was awarded the prestigious MIDEM Classical Award 2009.
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| 13-Apr-2013 Christ Church Cathedral | Heavenly music: The Sixteen in Oxford's Christ Church Cathedral |
 The programme notes for The Sixteen’s 2013 Choral Pilgrimage draw attention to how composers have been inspired by the grandeur and beauty of their places of worship and work. In this context, the setting for The Sixteen’s concert in Oxford was more than suitable. Completed in 1200, Christ Church Cathedral is a mixture of Romanesque and Gothic architecture. For a long time this cathedral was the smallest in England, and for Saturday’s concert the intimate space was packed full of choral music devotees.
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| 20-Dec-2012 SJE Arts at St John the Evangelist Church | The Sixteen and Harry Christophers get ready for Christmas in Oxford |
| The theme of tonight’s concert, revealed the programme notes, was that of “marking time and preserving timeless values” – Christmas being a season that connects the past with the present. Musically, there were several strands to the programme that were supposed to demonstrate this theme: contrasting settings of the same text composed centuries apart, contemporary arrangements of ancient festive folk tunes, and juxtapositions of modern and renaissance carols with similar messages. Read full review... | |
| 2-Nov-2012 Bridgewater Hall | Harry Christophers and The Sixteen: Brahms in Manchester |
 Harry Christophers brought his Sixteen to Manchester for a night of deeply romantic choral music at The Bridgewater Hall. Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem was a foreseeable success, but the seldom-heard Vocal Quartets, settings of Sternau, Schiller, Daumer and Goethe, were a delightful addition to the programme.
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| 19-Oct-2012 Durham Cathedral | The Earth Resounds: The Sixteen Choral Pilgrimage 2012 |
 By calling this year’s Choral Pilgrimage tour The Earth Resounds and including excerpts from a piece known as the “Earthquake mass”, Harry Christophers and The Sixteen created an expectation of drama and excitement before they’d sung a single note. The programme was built on the works of Josquin des Prez, Antoine Brumel and Orlando de Lassus, three 16th-century composers who were nominally Flemish, but who all lived a typically cosmopolitan renaissance lifestyle, working as church musicians across continental Europe.
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