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Hollingworth gets it: this music of exquisite imagination and devotional depth deserves his subtle, intelligent, respectful approach… the singers sound like true believers. The voices are sublime…... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 20th June 2026, Record of the Week
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With St Paul's Deptford standing in for Westminster Abbey the acoustic is ideally focused - no 'billow' blurring the edges of a wonderfully buoyant 'The King Shall Rejoice' (its ensuing 'Exceeding... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2009, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Orazio Benevoli: Missa Tu Es Petrus
RecommendedI Fagiolini, The City Musick, Robert Hollingworth
Recorded here in the round, with a battery of instruments enriching the vocal ensembles, the work engulfs the senses just as it must have done in Benevoli’s day in the echoing spaces of St Peter's. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2024, Recording of the Week
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Special offer. Handel: Saul
Christopher Purves (Saul), Sarah Connolly (David), Robert Murray (Jonathan), Elizabeth Atherton (Merab), Joélle Harvey (Michal), Mark Dobell (High Priest), Jeremy Budd (Witch of Endor) & Stuart Young (Ghost of Samuel)
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
the choruses are always beautifully contoured, as is the incisive playing of The Sixteen's house band. Christopher Purves and Sarah Connolly all but steal the show: Purves's splenetic Saul is... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2012, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Handel: Messiah
RecommendedCarolyn Sampson, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mark Padmore, Christopher Purves
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Three of the four outstanding soloists - fine Handelians all - cut their teeth in the choir, and Catherine Wyn-Rogers has been a regular soloist. Crucially they don't stand apart, regally dispensing... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th August 2008
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Building a Library, April 2009, First Choice
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Special offer. Orazio Benevoli: Missa Benevola
RecommendedI Fagiolini (early music ensemble), The City Musick, Robert Hollingworth
The keynote here again is sheer sonic splendour, captured by a detailed sound recording that’s almost overwhelming at times (but in the best sense), with a particularly powerful bass register. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Special offer. Handel: Acis and Galatea
RecommendedJeremy Budd (Acis), Grace Davidson (Galatea), Stuart Young (Polyphemus), Mark Dobell (Damon), Simon Berridge (Coridon)
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Without undue hurry, [Christophers] keeps the delightful score bouncing merrily along; the instrumentalists supply expert playing…Davidson’s Galatea offers a small but pretty soprano and Jeremy... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Building A Library, April 2025, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Handel: Jephtha
RecommendedJames Gilchrist (Jephtha), Susan Bickley (Storge), Sophie Bevan (Iphis), Robin Blaze (Hamor), Matthew Brook (Zebul) & Grace Davidson (Angel)
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Christophers's taut, vibrant, and beautifully sprung account is bright and dazzling, yet so often the score ought to inhabit the tortured light and shade of Caravaggio...the choruses are finely... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Building a Library, January 2018, First Choice
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Special offer. The Sixteen sing Handel & Steffani
RecommendedElin Manahan Thomas & Grace Davidson (soprano), Ruth Massey (alto), Jeremy Budd & Mark Dobell (tenor) & Eamonn Dougan & Rob Macdonald (bass)
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
The Sixteen's sincere and nourishing performance does glorious justice to Steffani's profoundly moving and lovely setting. The Sixteen's Dixit Dominus… retains only three musicians from two... —
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Building A Library, March 2026, Top Choice (Dixit Dominus)
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Special offer. Bach, J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248
RecommendedLynda Russell (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contralto), Mark Padmore (tenor, Evangelist), Michael George (bass, Herod), Libby Crabtree (angel, Echo)
The Sixteen, The Symphony of Harmony and Invention, Harry Christophers
Like Gardiner… the Sixteen's recording throbs with the joy of it all. —
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Building a Library, December 2005, First Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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