Special offer. Lead, Kindly Light
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2026, Choral Choice
The thread is spiritual intensity – how composers, centuries apart, give voice to penitence, ecstasy, doubt and resolve…Kerensa Briggs’s Lead, Kindly Light, commissioned for this pilgrimage,...
Special offer. Lead, Kindly Light
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2026, Choral Choice
The thread is spiritual intensity – how composers, centuries apart, give voice to penitence, ecstasy, doubt and resolve…Kerensa Briggs’s Lead, Kindly Light, commissioned for this pilgrimage,...
About
Spain’s Siglo de Oro, the Age of Gold, gave rise to some of the greatest sacred choral music of the Renaissance. Lead Kindly Light explores majestic works by Cristóbal de Morales, famed throughout Europe and in the New World, and the exquisite polyphony of Sebastián de Vivanco, whose intricately crafted counterpoint adorned services at the cathedrals of Ávila and Salamanca during the late 1500s. Contrasting and complementing these 16th-century masterpieces are spellbinding settings of words by Saint John Henry Newman by Sir James MacMillan and Kerensa Briggs.
Contents and tracklist
- Katy Hill (soprano), Daniel Collins (vocalist)
- The Sixteen
- Harry Christophers
James MacMillan, Saint John Henry Newman, Robert Willis:
Nothing in vain
Work length11:03
This work is only available as an album download.
- Katy Hill (soprano), Jeremy Budd (tenor), Ben Davies (bass-baritone)
- The Sixteen
- Harry Christophers
Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineApril 2026Choral Choice
April 2026
The thread is spiritual intensity – how composers, centuries apart, give voice to penitence, ecstasy, doubt and resolve…Kerensa Briggs’s Lead, Kindly Light, commissioned for this pilgrimage, sits comfortably within the programme, its solo lines emerging in relief from sustained choral textures.
April 2026
The Sixteen under Harry Christophers exhibit their customary perfect intonation, blend and diction, combining sonority with detail in the spacious acoustic of All Hallows, Gospel Oak.
