
Listeners used to hearing The Sixteen in its most familiar role as interpreter par excellence of challenging a cappella chamber choir repertoire, from Renaissance to
Followers of The Sixteen will recognize this Coro title as identical to the choir’s 1997 release on Collins (now deleted). Of course, you have to
If you own The Sixteen’s 20th Century Christmas Collection (on now-defunct Collins), you have most of the works included on this reissue offered by the
After acknowledging the esteemed presence of The Sixteen and guitarist Kaori Muraji on this new Decca CD (an unusual place to find this choir after
If you’re a choral music fan and you somehow missed this in its original Collins Classics release in 1992, you probably already own a more
Thomas Tallis’ 40-voice motet Spem in alium (scored for eight five-part choirs) was composed some 400 years before the modern age of recordings, and perhaps
Although the packaging doesn’t acknowledge it, this is a reissue of the Rebelo & Melgás–Sacred Choral Music from 17th-century Portugal CD originally released on Collins
Originally released on Collins Classics in 1992, this outstanding program returns in the same glorious sound and vocal splendor as before, as part of Coro’s
The musical and sonic splendors of this CD having already been discussed at length by David Vernier (type Q7162 in the search box for his
This reissue, a compilation from two Collins Classics recordings from 1992 and 1994, contains some excellent performances–notably the Tippett Spirituals and the Poulenc Sept Répons–but