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2018-12-21 07:51:01
The Sixteen at Christmas - The Little Child
Harry Christophers and The Sixteen The Little Child; The Sixteen, Harry Christophers; Cadogan Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 18 December 2018 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A nicely rounded Christmas programme which combined more serious elements with the eternally popularHarry Christophers and The Sixteen have been touring their 2018 Christmas programme and we caught up with them at Cadogan Hall on Tuesday 18 December 2018 as part of Choral at Cadogan. Under the title The Little Child, the programme presented an intriguing selection of music which explored aspects of the Christmas story centred around the Christ child but which included more serious elements such as the Holy Innocents, and gave a nicely rounded programme without excessive Christmas kitsch. So there was music by Sweelinck, Howells, Richard Rodney Bennett, William Walton, George Kirbye, Kenneth Leighton, William Byrd, Palestrina, Giaches de Wert, Joseph Phibbs, Cecilia McDowall, John Sheppard and […]
2018-12-16 08:37:14
Annual Christmas Round-up
[…] alongside the traditional and contemporary carols. Everthing is live, recorded by the BBC at the college's annual service in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 thus giving the music a lovely immediacy, and the choir is here on great form. For their disc on Coro, Harry Christophers and the Sixteen are having A Renaissance Christmas with an attractive programme which features an eclectic programme of festive music by J. P. Sweelinck, Jacob Handl, Johannes Eccard, George Kirbye, Orlande de Lassus, Thomas Tallis, Richard Dering, William Byrd, Tomas Luis de Victoria, John Sheppard, Francisco Guerrero, Peter Philips, plus plainsong with the texts taking us from Advent to the birth of Christ, Holy Innocents and Epiphany, with multiple settings of Resonent in Laudibus. Given the disc's quite focused programme, the variety of texture and style is quite striking so that Sheppard's Reges Tharsis is very different to the earlier Continental composers on the […]
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