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40: The Anniversary Collection
conducted by Harry Christophers, 1953-; performed by The Sixteen (Coro, 2019), 3 mins
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conducted by Harry Christophers, 1953-; performed by The Sixteen (Coro, 2019), 3 mins
Field of Study
Classical Music
Content Type
Music recording
Performer / Ensemble
The Sixteen
Contributor
Harry Christophers, 1953-
Author / Creator
The Sixteen
Date Published / Released
2019
Publisher
Coro
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2019 The Sixteen Productions Ltd.
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Crucifixus
composed by Antonio Lotti, 1666-1740 (1700); conducted by Harry Christophers, 1953-; performed by The Sixteen; in Allegri Miserere (Coro, 2003), 3 mins
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composed by Antonio Lotti, 1666-1740 (1700); conducted by Harry Christophers, 1953-; performed by The Sixteen; in Allegri Miserere (Coro, 2003), 3 mins
Date Written / Recorded
1700
Field of Study
Classical Music
Content Type
Music recording
Performer / Ensemble
The Sixteen
Contributor
Harry Christophers, 1953-
Author / Creator
Antonio Lotti, 1666-1740, The Sixteen
Date Published / Released
2003
Publisher
Coro
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Crucifixus
composed by Antonio Lotti, 1666-1740 (1700); conducted by Harry Christophers, 1953-; produced by Mark Brown, 1962-; performed by The Sixteen; in Allegri: Miserere (Coro, 2003), 3 mins
This 1994 disc is something of a classic of the new strain of the historical-performance movement, which is characterized by a certain amount of license to speculate in the reconstruction of lost works. The Miserere mei Deus of Gregorio Allegri is, of course, not a lost work, but one with an unbroken performance t...
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composed by Antonio Lotti, 1666-1740 (1700); conducted by Harry Christophers, 1953-; produced by Mark Brown, 1962-; performed by The Sixteen; in Allegri: Miserere (Coro, 2003), 3 mins
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This 1994 disc is something of a classic of the new strain of the historical-performance movement, which is characterized by a certain amount of license to speculate in the reconstruction of lost works. The Miserere mei Deus of Gregorio Allegri is, of course, not a lost work, but one with an unbroken performance tradition stretching back to its composition in the early seventeenth century (before 1638). It was sung for centuries at the Sistine Ch...
This 1994 disc is something of a classic of the new strain of the historical-performance movement, which is characterized by a certain amount of license to speculate in the reconstruction of lost works. The Miserere mei Deus of Gregorio Allegri is, of course, not a lost work, but one with an unbroken performance tradition stretching back to its composition in the early seventeenth century (before 1638). It was sung for centuries at the Sistine Chapel, where the singers were enjoined from circulating the music beyond Vatican walls. That prohibition wasn't enough to stop the 12-year-old Mozart, who wrote most of it down by ear as a tourist in Rome and filled in the gaps on a quick return visit; soon after that, British music writer Charles Burney got hold of either Mozart's copy (which hasn't survived) or another one and published the work. But by that time the Miserere had itself changed from what Allegri might have imagined. The work, which stood in a tradition of similar, earlier pieces, had an improvisational component, drawing on a centuries-old process of elaboration and harmony singing known as falsobordone (fauxbourdon in French, faburden in English). The Vatican singers, as the booklet explains and illustrates with contemporary quotations, gradually lost the skill to execute these improvisations, and the work took on the vivid but fixed contrasts between two choirs that are known today. French conductor Bernard Fabre-Garrus and his small choir A Sei Voci try, in the first track on the album, to reconstruct the work as Allegri might have heard it. The singers add a mostly upper line of counterpoint and elaborate it floridly, creating music that's completely different in effect, more spectacular and extroverted, than the Miserere. Fabre-Garrus exaggerates the contrast by calling for a sharp, coruscating sound from the singers and the initial Miserere, but then reining them in for the later version, performed at the end of the disc. The pairing offers a crash course in how much our understanding of seventeenth century music has been shaped by performance traditions. In between comes other music by Allegri, almost completely unknown but highly listenable and relevant in various ways to the mystery of the Miserere. The Missa vidi turbam magnam is a good example of what happened when composers tried to adapt the intrinsically conservative form of the mass to the new musical language of the seventeenth century; it is outwardly a work in the polyphonic stile antico of the Renaissance, but it is full of sunny major harmonies and direct harmonic moves that show the influence of modern styles. The three motets that follow (tracks 9-11) are in the new, continuo-accompanied manner; they are for three or four solo voices, in lush, close harmonies, and are accompanied here by a small organ. Altogether this was a disc that did much to illuminate a work whose connection to the extreme tendencies of the seventeenth century had mostly been forgotten, and it has inspired tribute in the form of various further attempts to refine performance of the Miserere mei Deus. ~ James Manheim, All Music Guide
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Date Written / Recorded
1700, 1989-11
Field of Study
Classical Music
Content Type
Music recording
Performer / Ensemble
The Sixteen
Contributor
Harry Christophers, 1953-, Anthony Howell, Mark Brown, 1962-
Author / Creator
Antonio Lotti, 1666-1740, The Sixteen
Date Published / Released
2003
Publisher
Coro
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Barber: Angus Dei-An American Collection
conducted by Harry Christophers, 1953-; produced by Arthur Johnson; performed by The Sixteen (Coro, 2005), 1 hour 4 mins
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conducted by Harry Christophers, 1953-; produced by Arthur Johnson; performed by The Sixteen (Coro, 2005), 1 hour 4 mins
Field of Study
Classical Music
Content Type
Music recording
Performer / Ensemble
The Sixteen
Contributor
Harry Christophers, 1953-, Arthur Johnson
Author / Creator
The Sixteen
Date Published / Released
2005
Publisher
Coro
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2005 by The Sixteen Productions Ltd.
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O bone Jesu
composed by James MacMillan, 1959- (2002); conducted by Harry Christophers, 1953-; produced by Raphael Mouterde, 1974-; performed by The Sixteen; in Bright Orb of Harmony (Coro, 2009), 10 mins
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composed by James MacMillan, 1959- (2002); conducted by Harry Christophers, 1953-; produced by Raphael Mouterde, 1974-; performed by The Sixteen; in Bright Orb of Harmony (Coro, 2009), 10 mins
Date Written / Recorded
2002, 2009-02-27
Field of Study
Classical Music
Content Type
Music recording
Performer / Ensemble
The Sixteen
Contributor
Harry Christophers, 1953-, Raphael Mouterde, 1974-
Author / Creator
James MacMillan, 1959-, The Sixteen
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
Coro
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The Call of Rome
conducted by Harry Christophers, 1953-; performed by The Sixteen (Coro, 2020), 1 hour 13 mins
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conducted by Harry Christophers, 1953-; performed by The Sixteen (Coro, 2020), 1 hour 13 mins
Date Written / Recorded
2019
Field of Study
Classical Music
Content Type
Music recording
Performer / Ensemble
The Sixteen
Contributor
Harry Christophers, 1953-
Author / Creator
The Sixteen
Date Published / Released
2020
Publisher
Coro
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2017 CORO
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Ceremony and Devotion: Music for the Tudors
conducted by Harry Christophers, 1953-; produced by Mark Brown, 1962-; performed by The Sixteen (Coro, 2010), 1 hour 16 mins
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conducted by Harry Christophers, 1953-; produced by Mark Brown, 1962-; performed by The Sixteen (Coro, 2010), 1 hour 16 mins
Date Written / Recorded
2009-10
Field of Study
Classical Music
Content Type
Music recording
Performer / Ensemble
The Sixteen
Contributor
Harry Christophers, 1953-, Mark Brown, 1962-
Author / Creator
The Sixteen
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
Coro
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2010 by The Sixteen Productions Ltd.
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Choral Works
composed by Francis Poulenc, 1899-1963; conducted by Harry Christophers, 1953-; produced by Mark Brown, 1962-; performed by The Sixteen (Coro, 2017), 1 hour 5 mins
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composed by Francis Poulenc, 1899-1963; conducted by Harry Christophers, 1953-; produced by Mark Brown, 1962-; performed by The Sixteen (Coro, 2017), 1 hour 5 mins
Date Written / Recorded
2016-11-10
Field of Study
Classical Music
Content Type
Music recording
Performer / Ensemble
The Sixteen
Contributor
Harry Christophers, 1953-, Mike Hatch, Mark Brown, 1962-
Author / Creator
Francis Poulenc, 1899-1963, The Sixteen
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Coro
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2017 The Sixteen Productions
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Claudio Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale, Volume 1
composed by Claudio Monteverdi, 1567-1643; conducted by Harry Christophers, 1953-; produced by Raphael Mouterde, 1974-; performed by The Sixteen (Coro, 2010), 1 hour 7 mins
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composed by Claudio Monteverdi, 1567-1643; conducted by Harry Christophers, 1953-; produced by Raphael Mouterde, 1974-; performed by The Sixteen (Coro, 2010), 1 hour 7 mins
Date Written / Recorded
2010-07
Field of Study
Classical Music
Content Type
Music recording
Performer / Ensemble
The Sixteen
Contributor
Harry Christophers, 1953-, Raphael Mouterde, 1974-
Author / Creator
Claudio Monteverdi, 1567-1643, The Sixteen
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
Coro
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2010 by The Sixteen Productions Ltd.
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Conductus funebris; Litaniae de Providentia Divina; Missa Rorate caeli
conducted by Eamonn Dougan; produced by Raphael Mouterde, 1974-; performed by The Sixteen (Coro, 2015), 1 hour 8 mins
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conducted by Eamonn Dougan; produced by Raphael Mouterde, 1974-; performed by The Sixteen (Coro, 2015), 1 hour 8 mins
Date Written / Recorded
2014-11
Field of Study
Classical Music
Content Type
Music recording
Performer / Ensemble
The Sixteen
Contributor
Eamonn Dougan, Mike Hatch, Raphael Mouterde, 1974-
Author / Creator
The Sixteen
Date Published / Released
2015-04-14
Publisher
Coro
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2015 by Coro
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