
Fine performances of Handel’s delightful, brief pastoral are not rare: John Butt leads the Dunedin Consort in a five-voice version (as it was in 1718
For the past 30 years Harry Christophers and his Sixteen choir have been reliable and often inspiring interpreters of Renaissance and Baroque choral music, whether
It’s no secret that if you’re looking for a well-filled, thoughtfully programmed disc of Christmas choral music, you won’t go wrong with any of The
This is a reconfiguration of performances that originally appeared on three different CDs in The Sixteen’s Britten Choral Works series for Collins Classics in the
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