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Nico Muhly's choral works from Magdalen College, Oxford
22nd May 2026by David Smith
The trebles and adults of Magdalen College present a year's worth of anthems, motets and other sacred music written (mostly) for them by Nico Muhly.
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2026: The Winners!
23rd Apr 2026by Chris O'Reilly
Exciting news from last night's glittering ceremony at Kings Place, including details of the well-deserved Recording of the Year and Personality of the Year Awards...
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Mark Williams on Be Still My Soul
21st Jul 2025by David Smith
Magdalen College's Informator Choristarum (Director of Music) talks about his new album of favourite hymns with the choir, the role they play in the choir's daily life, and the trick to writing a really good descant.
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Harry Christophers on 'Angel of Peace'
24th Mar 2025by David Smith
The conductor talks about his new album of choral works, released to accompany The Sixteen's 2025 Choral Pilgrimage.
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Robert Hollingworth on Benevoli's multi-choir magnificence
7th Nov 2023by David Smith
The director of I Fagiolini talks about his new album, featuring a four-choir work of unparalleled Baroque splendour by the seventeenth-century Italian composer Orazio Benevoli.
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James MacMillan discusses his Stabat Mater
6th Apr 2017by David Smith
As a follow-up to our earlier interview with Harry Christophers, the Scottish composer talks to David about his new work.
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Harry Christophers on James MacMillan's new Stabat Mater
6th Apr 2017by David Smith
David talks to The Sixteen's Harry Christophers about his recording of a brand-new major work by James MacMillan.
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Flight of Angels
4th Feb 2015by David Smith
David talks to Harry Christophers about his new disc of polyphonic gems from the Spanish Renaissance with The Sixteen.
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Tomás Luis de Victoria
28th Feb 2011by Chris O'Reilly
Harry Christophers and The Sixteen marks the 400th anniversary of the Spanish composer’s death with a ‘beautifully sung and superbly recorded’ new album centring on the Missa Alma Redemptoris Mater.
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Beautiful Messiah and Exquisite Morales
25th Aug 2008by Chris O'Reilly
Harry Christophers and The Sixteen offer a Messiah of ‘formidable achievement’, whilst The Brabant Ensemble present a compelling programme motets and lamentations by the Spanish Renaissance composer Cristóbal de Morales.