70: A Life in Music. Album by The Sixteen

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70: A Life in Music. Album by The Sixteen70: A Life in Music Album Description Any account of choral music in the early twenty first century would be incomplete without a chapter dedicated to the work of Harry Christophers and The Sixteen. The conductor, in partnership with the ensemble he founded 45 years ago, has set benchmark standards for the performance of everything from late medieval polyphony to new works from todays finest choral composers. While his artistry arises from the great

Sir Peter MAXWELL DAVIES (1934-2016)

and a new commission from Roderick Williams

John AMNER (1579-1641)

Adagio cantabile

dell'incostante

From Tallis’s monumental Spem in Alium and Sheppard’s Media Vita in morte sumus to the delights of Purcell’s The Fairy Queenand MacMillan’s powerfully emotive A Child’s Prayer written in memory of the Dunblane tragedy

Fugue 'The Wedge'

António Teixeira (1707 - c1759)

conjuring up the atmosphere and spirit of the glorious Cathedrals for which it was written

This recording draws together some truly great choral pieces - Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms through to Barber's Agnus Dei

Allegri’s Miserere is the single most famous piece of sacred music ever written

‘A Scattering’

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