CONCERTS
The Daily Telegraph - Choral Pilgrimage 2008
"Harry Christophers, director of the chamber choir The Sixteen, wants to do more than just ravish our ears.
He wants to set us feeling and thinking, and every detail of this wonderful concert was carefully planned for maximum expressive effect...the shock of all that glorious vocal euphony just takes your breath away."
The Herald - 'Ikon' programme
"The Sixteen's performance at the Perth Festival came - as it always does - as a fresh shock to the system, one of those magical moments...
their singing is warm, expressive and human, with Christophers' supreme direction - a joy to observe...one of the great choral concerts of our time."
The Times - 'Ikon' programme
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After 28 years in the business, the Sixteen remain a superb choir"
The Guardian - Choral Pilgrimage 2007
"...****...it's a fair bet that the Pope's 16th-century choristers never sounded as polished as this...a vibrant performance"
The Daily Telegraph - Choral Pilgrimage 2007
"...The Sixteen, under Harry Christophers, has developed its own mellifluous, disciplined manner, manicured and highly polished"
The Guardian - 'Streams of Tears' programme
"...the choral sounds were wonderfully clear and unfailingly precise...Christophers' group can be just as impressively extrovert as they had been austerely restrained"
The Times - 'Streams of Tears' programme
"Here was exultant and agile singing"
The Independent - 'German Requiem' programme
"Brahms' Requiem was a triumph...it was as if Christophers had lifted a mighty layer of dust from an Old Master...a masterly stroke"
The Independent
"...what recherché treasures they had unearthed from the archives...Tallis'"Puer natus est" took the breath away with its bold harmonic audacity...5 STARS "
The Daily Telegraph
“Jesus autem transiens by Robert Wylkynson and William Cornysh's setting of the Salve regina served to exemplify the richness and variety that Renaissance music can yield, and the Sixteen, directed by Harry Christophers, were ardent exponents of it.”
The Times
“a thrilling dramatic choral tour de force . . . . . . invigorating.”
The Independent
“The Sixteen scintillated with Handel’s Dixit Dominus.”
The Guardian
“the precision of The Sixteen, with the instrumental accompaniment woven artfully through the voices, was beguiling.”
Handel in Oxford 2006
The Oxford Magazine, November 2006
Peter Schofield
Alexander's Feast, 16th September 2006
It was awe-inspiring to hear this music in the Sheldonian Theatre...and to wonder how close the glorious sound produced under Christophers' direction resembled how it sounded in 1738. The singing of the eighteen singers of The Sixteen was immaculate with every word audible, every note responsive to their sense.
