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Special offer. Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629
RecommendedAnn Murray, Lorna Anderson, Gillian Fisher, John Mark Ainsley, Michael Chance, Richard Suart, Ian Partridge, Michael George
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
The Fairy Queen hardly an 'opera' in the conventional sense: its musical virtues lie in the composer's uncanny ability to summon a discrete, potent atmosphere whose capacity to move the listener... —
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Building a Library, September 2011, First Choice (CD)
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Building a Library, February 2023, Also Recommended
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This is inspiring, immaculate music-making of the highest order – nothing less than you would expect from an ensembkle that can be counted among Britain’s great cultural treasures. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Special offer. Sirens' Song
Julie Cooper, Joshua Cooter, Sioned Williams, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
One would have to travel very far to find an album of British a cappella (mostly) music as beautifully sung as this...The Sixteen’s singing, like Mike Hatch’s recording, is as excellent as one... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Handel: Alexander's Feast
Nancy Argenta, Ian Partridge, Michael George
The Sixteen, The Symphony of Harmony and Invention, Harry Christophers
Handel's 1736 setting of Dryden's ode is heard here with two interpolations made in the first performance - a concerto for harp and one for organ. Harry Christophers's feeling for sonority... —
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From the gorgeously shaped performance of Morten Lauridsen’s modern classic O magnum mysterium which opens the programme, to the urgent, ardent account of James MacMillan’s O radiant dawn which... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Special offer. JS Bach: Organ Works Vol. I
Robert Quinney (Frobenius Organ of The Queen’s College, Oxford)
Quinney embraces the transparency of Bach's trios with an ear for their variety, sparkle and cogency. The Frobenius organ at Queen's College, Oxford, provides him with an enticing palette of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2012, Editor's Choice
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Christophers positions himself halfway between the Purcells and Amsterdamers, settling on a choir of eight voices with predictably transparent results...Christophers's customary precision and... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. JS Bach: Organ Works Vol. II
Robert Quinney (Metzler Organ of Trinity College, Cambridge)
Several of Bach's greatest hits for the organ are heard here on an ideal instrument (Trinity College, Cambridge) in sober performances from Robert Quinney. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013, Editor's Choice
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Director Harry Christophers draws controlled performances which highlight the music's extremes of spiritual serenity and visceral energy. As one might expect from this crack choir, there is... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2007, Editor's Choice
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