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These are performances that…. Trust Harry Christophers and The Sixteen to get to the heart of the matter. This selection of 22 carols is an engaging mix of old and new, sung unaccompanied and without the cloying sentimentality that often mars the Christmas season and threatens to make a mockery of a story that could have particular resonance in our own age of mass human displacement. Here we have singing that conveys wonderment and joy, but also empathetically touches on the less glamorous aspects of the human condition.
The older carols are not necessarily well known. As Christophers notes, some are out fashion, but none the worse for that. A welcome stylistic variety informs the choice of newer carols. Edmund Rubbra is a composer who has faded from English musical history, written out of a narrative that jumps straight from Vaughan Williams and Holst to Britten and Walton. But this release from The Sixteen is a defiant and overdue attempt to rewrite that history, to establish Rubbra where he belongs, as one of the most distinctive harmonic voices of his generation — not the conservative throwback he has been painted, but a composer for whom the possibilities of tonality were far from exhausted.
The sonic imagination here roams widely, from the craggy, sharp-edged beauty of the Tenebrae Motets to the gauzy clouds of modal richness established by the two choirs of the Missa Cantuariensis and the lightly-worn contrapuntal skill of Vain Wits and Except the Lord. This music gives little away on the page — its impact is all in the pacing and careful textural balance of performance. Harry Christophers deploys his singers with care, ensuring absolute vertical clarity and balance, but also a horizontal flow that propels music whose organic, evolving structures can easily become….
This means that tempi are on the whole slightly more flowing and less monumental, allowing some of the more intimate moments to shine through. Christophers adopts a less interventionist approach than McCreesh, with the happy result we still have some favourite turns of phrase: Little is known of his career before he was appointed Kapellmeister at Wawel Cathedral and all but 39 pieces from his output have been lost in the various conflagrations and upheavals that have plagued his nation.
The programme opens with an arresting bugle call that promises grandeur and pomp to come but then proceeds through a selection of a cappella and vocal-instrumental pieces of increasingly soporific dullness. The Mass in stile antico is workman-like with a few quirks in the writing that might be discerned by the attentive choral-scholar but will pass the average listener by. There are some sober beauties to be found in the Conductus Funebris and the concluding Litania de Providentia Divina so maybe this is a programme to dip into rather than wade through the whole.
Henry Purcell left the semi-opera The Indian Queen unfinished at his death in and it fell to his brother Daniel to supply a happy ending of sorts in the form of The Masque of Hymen for the revival. But what the music might lack in quantity, it more than makes up for in quality.
Now at the height of its colonial power, the country also boasted spectacular music and art. These composers, master and disciple, were both in turn maestro di capilla of Seville Cathedral, then one of the grandest Christian structures in Europe. The singers reveal the plangent glories, singing with a wonderful mixture of imposing calm and expertly focused dissonance.
A voice Duo seraphim, an eight-voice Laudate Dominum and the Credo from his Missa de la Batalla Escoutez stand out as examples of artistry. The Sixteen once again demonstrate their profound…. Given the esteem the composer is accorded not only by the Catholic church but by choristers the world over, it is very odd that there has been little sustained exploration of his output. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account.
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