The famend choir The Sixteen, one of many finest choirs on the planet, is known for its choral voices and delightful performances. The choir was based in 1979 by conductor Harry Christophers, whose formative expertise as a cathedral chorister and choral scholar was instrumental in his imaginative and prescient for a brand new choir.
The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra’s finest Christmas recordings
Conventional Christmas Carol Assortment Vol. II
The Sixteen play Christmas with a commendably straight bat – seasonal favourites, with tinkering stored to a minimal.
The Christmas Assortment
- COR 16054 (3 CDs)
- £25.99
Recorded initially on the Collins label, this wonderful three-disc set combines Conventional Christmas Assortment Vol. I with one CD every of early and Twentieth-century Christmas music.
Britten A Ceremony of Carols
A superbly balanced efficiency that serves as an efficient reminder that Britten initially supposed his finest identified Christmas work for ladies’s, not boys’, voices.
Poulenc Choral works
- Virgin Classics 562 4312
- £11.99
Admittedly, a lot of the music on this disc is just not festive in any respect. Nonetheless, the beautiful unaccompanied Quatre Motets pour le temps de Noël make it a should to incorporate right here.
Christmas Music from Medieval and Renaissance Europe
- Hyperion CDA 66263
- £12.99
The likes of Tallis and Mouton rub shoulders with ‘Trad.’ and ‘Anon’ as The Sixteen, of their early days, lead us via the 14th to sixteenth centuries.
