Music from the Sistine Chapel. Album by The Sixteen

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Music from the Sistine Chapel. Album by The SixteenAlbum Description This disc offers a fascinating collection of works written for the Papal Chapel. Researched and sung by one of the world's leading choirs, The Sixteen and Harry Christophers, this recording includes many world premiere recordings of these rarely heard sacred works. Felice Anerio displays a fluid mastery of the Roman style of composition, and some of his surviving settings are shown to advantage here, in particular his glorious twelve

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He smote all the first-born of Egypt

Four motets

all displaying the magnificent fervent sonorities for which he is famous

Catherine Denley

All these elements are well to the fore in this magnificent recording

precision and contrapuntal clarity that cannot be achieved in the orchestral version

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and a multiple award-winner

Treasurer of Saint Martin of Tours

An astonishing disc of Handel Arias sung by one of opera’s rising stars

she succumbed to smallpox