After more than a year of planning, the first day, of 27 days of reckoning was upon us last Friday as we were in Guildford Cathedral for the first performance of the 2009 Choral Pilgrimage. To add to the excitement the concert was being recorded for a CORO live disc that'll be on general release in April.
Check back here to watch a short 'making of' film in the next few days. In the meantime, it's on to the University cities of Cambridge and Oxford on March 13 & 14 respectively. The Sixteen formed in Oxford so it'll be an especially memorable performance for Harry Christophers as the group he formed, back in 1979, celebrates its thirtieth anniversary.
Sunday, 1 March 2009
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
2009 The Year of Celebration
Purcell was born 350 years ago in 1659 and Handel popped his clogs one hundred years later. We're celebrating these historic musical landmarks, alongside contemporary composer James MacMillan's 50th birthday and our very own 30th anniversary on our major national tour, The Choral Pilgrimage 2009.
We're touring to at least 25 venues across the UK with two different programmes - an a cappella Purcell & MacMillan programme which includes Purcell's heartfelt Funeral Sentences and James MacMillan's powerfully emotive A Child's Prayer, written in memory of the Dunblane Tragedy. In 6 venues we'll be performing Handel's Coronation Anthems with both the choir and orchestra of The Sixteen - a celebration not to be missed.
Visit our website to see what and when we're performing near you!
http://www.the-sixteen.org.uk/tours/tour_cp_dates.htm
We're touring to at least 25 venues across the UK with two different programmes - an a cappella Purcell & MacMillan programme which includes Purcell's heartfelt Funeral Sentences and James MacMillan's powerfully emotive A Child's Prayer, written in memory of the Dunblane Tragedy. In 6 venues we'll be performing Handel's Coronation Anthems with both the choir and orchestra of The Sixteen - a celebration not to be missed.
Visit our website to see what and when we're performing near you!
http://www.the-sixteen.org.uk/tours/tour_cp_dates.htm
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Christmas is coming
It's getting dark, the Christmas lights are up and crackers are on sale at the supermarket. But the sign that the festive season is truly upon us is The Sixteen's glorious Messiah, which they'll be performing along with a stellar line-up of soloists, at the Barbican Hall on Wednesday 3 December 2008. BBC New Generation Artist Elizabeth Watts will be joined on stage by Catherine Wyn-Rogers (who can be heard on our new recording of Messiah 'graphically evoking the refiner's fire'), James Gilchrist and Christopher Purves, also to be heard on our new recording 'adding a sonorous bass extension to his incisive baritone'.
Join us if you can for what promises to be a remarkable evening - not least because it will be the 150th time that The Sixteen have performed Messiah.
Join us if you can for what promises to be a remarkable evening - not least because it will be the 150th time that The Sixteen have performed Messiah.
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