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The Sixteen

Barbican Hall, 15-May-2024 / 19:30

Monteverdi

Cadogan Hall, 11-Feb-2024 / 19:30

Monteverdi

Wigmore Hall, 11-Feb-2024 / 19:30

An all Bach programme

Wigmore Hall, 18-Dec-2023 / 19:30

St Martins-in-the-Fields, 5-Dec-2023 / 19:00

Handel: Messiah

Cadogan Hall, 14-Dec-2023 and 15-Dec-2023 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 23-Mar-2023 / 19:30

An all Byrd programme with Fretwork

Cadogan Hall, 15-Dec-2022 / 19:30

Favourite pieces by Byrd

Ad Dominum cum tribularer performed in 2020 (October) and 2016 (November).

Come woeful Orpheus performed in 2023 (March) and 2020 (February, 21).

Laudibus in sanctis performed in 2014 (April) and 2013.

O lux beata Trinitas (Hymn) performed in 2018 (June, 16) and 2016 (November).

Retire my soul performed in 2021 (February, 21).

This sweet and merry month of May performed in 2020 (February, 21) and 2014 (April).

The Sixteen performed Handel's Messiah on the 6th of December 2022 at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

Kings Place, 24-Nov-2022 / 19:30

  • Hildegard Of Bingen, De Victoria, Raffaella Aleotti, Palestrina, John Barber, Raffaella Aleotti, Papa, Jean-yves Daniel-lesur

Wigmore Hall, 1-Oct-2022 / 19:30

An all Bach programme

  • Bach:
    • Dazu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes BWV40
    • Mass in G minor BWV235
    • Alles nur nach Gottes Willen BWV72
    • Mass in F BWV233

Concerts, unfortunately, cancelled or postponed due to the pandemic.

On the 23rd of April 2021 at Kings Place.

On the 2nd of April 2021 at the Barbican Hall.

On the 22th of October 2020 at the Wigmore Hall.

On the 23rd of September 2020 at Kings Place.

On the 9th of September 2020 at the Croydon Minster.

On the 6th of July 2020 at St James's Church Spanish Place.

On the 9th of June at the Wigmore Hall.

On the 6th of May at Greenwich Old Royal Naval College.

On the 20th of March 2020 at Kings Place.

St Martin-in-the-Fields, 6-Sep-2022 / 19:30

  • Parry: Songs of Farewell
  • mediaeval carols:
    • Deo gracias, Anglia
    • O blessed Lord
    • Benedicite Deo
  • Campion:
    • Tune thy music to thy heart
  • Cecilia McDowall: An Unexpected Shore

Royal Albert Hall, 24-Aug-2022 / 22:15

  • Tavener, Tallis, MacMillan, Christopher Tye, Górecki, Sheppard, Byrd
  • Harry Christophers - Conductor

Wigmore Hall, 19-Jun-2022 / 19:30

An all Purcell programme

Kings Place, 27-Apr-2022 / 19:30

  • Mediaeval carols, Parry, Campion, Howells and Mcdowall

Wigmore Hall, 27-Mar-2022 / 19:30

  • Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Diogo Dias Melgas, Antonio de Cabezón

Cadogan Hall, 16-Feb-2022 / 19:30

  • Handel:
    • Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon

Cadogan Hall, 15-Dec-2021 / 19:30

  • Bob Chilcott, Traditional, Alec Roth, Murray, Victoria, Arvo Pärt, Howells, Guerrero.

Unless otherwise specified Harry Christophers directed the choir's concerts displayed on this page.

Kings Place, 17-Nov-2021 / 19:30

  • Gibbons: O clap your hands together
  • Tallis: If ye love me
  • Byrd: O Lord, make thy servant, Elizabeth
  • Thomas Morley, Tye

Favourite pieces by Arvo Pärt

Morning Star performed in 2020 (September) and 2015 (December, 10).

Nunc dimittis performed in 2016 (November, August).

The Deer’s Cry performed in 2020 (September), 2016 (November) and 2015 (December, 10).

Wigmore Hall, 13-Sep-2021 / 19:30

An all Handel programme

  • Sonata from Chandos Anthem No. 6 'As pants the hart' HWV251b

Wigmore Hall, 31-Jul-2021 / 19:30

  • Campion, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Finzi, Stanford, Ciro Pinsuti

Kings Place, 1-Jul-2021 / 19:00

  • plainsong: De Lamentatione (LU p754)
  • Victoria:
    • Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday I, II & III:
      • Recessit pastor noster
      • O vos omnes
      • Ecce quomodo moritur iustus
  • Josquin: Pater noster

Wigmore Hall, 3-Apr-2021 / 19:30

  • Purcell: Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes Z135

Other Favourite pieces

Anon I am a jolly foster performed in 2021 (February) and 2020 (October).

Antonio Lotti's Crucifixus a 8 performed in 2016 (September, 16 - Kings Place) and 2014 (November, 20 - The Temple Church).

Bach's Singet dem Herrn BWV225 (14") performed in 2017 (February, 8) and 2016 (August).

Britten's Hymn to Saint Cecilia performed in 2019 (November, October) and 2018 (November).

Britten's Hymn to the Virgin performed in 2019 (November) and 2018 (November).

Caldara's Crucifixus a 16 performed in 2019 (November) and 2018 (November).

Campion's Author of Light and Never, weather-beaten sail performed in 2022 (September) and 2020 (October).

Cecilia McDowall's Of a Rose performed in 2019 (December, 16 and 17) and 2019 (November).

Cornysh's Ah, Robin, Gentle Robin, Ave Maria, Mater Dei, My love she mourneth and Woefully array’d performed in 2020 (October) and 2018 (November).

Diogo Dias Melgas's Popule meus - Improperia, Lamentacao de Quinta Feira Santa and Salve Regina performed in 2016 (September) and 2014 (November, 20).

Howard Skempton's Adam lay ybounden performed in 2016 (December, 15 and 10).

Howells' Take him, earth for cherishing performed in 2022 (September) and 2019 (November).

Joao Lourenco Rebelo's Panis angelicus performed in 2016 (September) and 2014 (November, 20).

Mediaeval carols' Saint Thomas honour we performed in 2022 (September and April).

Puer natus est nobis as Plainsong twice performed in 2015 (December).

Salve Regina as Plainsong performed in 2019 (April 3), 2018 (June 16) and 2015 (January).

Poulenc's Un Soir de neige performed in 2017 (December 18,19 and April).

Purcell's Swifter, Isis, swifter flow (Welcome Song for King Charles II) Z336 performed in 2019 (January) and 2014 (September).

Scarlatti's Iste Confessor and Stabat Mater a 10 performed in 2016 (September) and 2014 (November, 20).

Sheppard's In manus tuas Domine I (Compline) performed in 2018 (June, 16) and 2015 (January).

Sheppard's In manus tuas Domine III (Compline) performed in 2018 (June, 16), 2015 (January) and 2014 (April).

Tallis' Miserere nostri performed in 2015 (January), 2013 (November).

Victoria's Salve Regina a8 performed in 2018 (June, 16) and 2015 (January).

Wigmore Hall, 15-Feb-2021 / 20:00

  • John Browne: Jesu, mercy, how may this be?
  • Anon:
    • My heart is in great mourning
    • In a slumber late as I was
  • Richard Davy: Ah, mine heart, remember thee well

Kings Place, 19-Sep-2020 / 19:00

  • F. Anerio: Litaniae Beatissimae Virginis Mariae
  • Arvo Part: Da pacem Domine
  • Josquin:
    • O virgo prudentissima
    • Pater noster / Ave Maria
  • John Sheppard: Libera nos I
  • Victoria: Litaniae Beatae Mariae

Temple Church, 13-Oct-2020 / 19:00

David Miller - Lute

  • Campion:
    • Most sweet and pleasing are thy ways
    • To music bent is my retired mind
    • Shall I come sweet love to thee?
  • Cornysh: Hoyda, jolly rutterkin
  • Byrd: Quomodo cantabimus
  • de Monte: Super flumina Babylonis

Wigmore Hall, 21-Feb-2020 / 19:30

  • Byrd:
    • Come, let us rejoice unto our Lord
    • How vain the toils
    • Arise Lord into thy rest
    • Make ye joy to God
    • This day Christ was born
    • Sing we merrily
    • Come jolly swains
    • Crowned with flowers and lilies
    • Praise our Lord, all ye Gentiles
    • Turn our captivity, O Lord
  • Dowland:
    • Disdain me still, that I may ever love
    • Welcome black night/Cease these false sports
    • Thou mighty God
    • In darkness let me dwell
    • Up merry mates
    • Sweet stay awhile
    • Galliard
    • Shall I strive with words to move

The Sixteen performed Handel's Acis & Galatea on the 11th of February 2020 at the Cadogan Hall. See Grace Davidson for more programme details.

Cadogan Hall, 16th and 17th of December 2019

  • Walton: Make we joy now in this fest
  • Matthew Martin: Adam lay ybounden
  • Warlock: Corpus Christi
  • Holst: This have I done for my true love
  • Praetorius: Lo, how a rose e’er blooming (arr. Jan Sandström)
  • James Burton: Balulalow
  • Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
  • Selection of and traditional carols

Kings Place, 29-Nov-2019 / 19:30

  • Ruth Byrchmore:
    • Prayer of St Theresa of Avila
    • A Birthday (St Cecilia)
  • Cecilia McDowall: Now May We Singen
  • Margaret Rizza: O Speculum Columbe
  • Alissa Firsova: Stabat Mater
  • Roxanna Panufnik: Prayer
  • Peter Maxwell Davies: Lullaby for Lucy

Barbican Hall, 14-Oct-2019 / 19:30

  • Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
  • James MacMillan:
    • The Sun Danced
    • Symphony No 5 (Le grand inconnu)
  • The Sixteen
  • Genesis Sixteen & Alumni
  • Britten Sinfonia

The Sixteen performed on the 5th of June 2019 at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

Kings Place, 3-Apr-2019 / 19:30

  • Tavener:
    • Hymn to the Mother of God
    • Hymn for the Dormition of the Mother of God
  • Sheppard:
    • Gloria from Cantate Mass
    • Agnus Dei from Cantate Mass
  • Whitacre: Sainte-Chapelle
  • Wylkynson: Salve Regina
  • Fayrfax: Aeternae laudis lilium
  • Gabriel Jackson: Ave Maria
  • James Macmillan: O virgo prudentissima (new commission – based on Wylkynson fragment)

Wigmore Hall, 17-Apr-2019 / 19:30

  • Cooke: O Lord, thou hast searched me out
  • John Blow:
    • In the time of trouble
    • Salvator mundi
  • Pelham Humfrey:
    • Lord, I have sinned
    • O Lord my God
    • By the waters of Babylon
    • Wilt thou forgive that sin (A Hymne to God the Father)
  • Samuel Pepys: Beauty retire (arr. Cesare Morelli)
  • Henry Cooke: Put me not to rebuke

Cadogan Hall, 12-Feb-2019 / 19:30

Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610

  • The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra, Harry Christophers - Conductor, Katy Hill - Soprano, Charlotte Mobbs - Soprano, Jeremy Budd - Tenor, Mark Dobell - Tenor, Ben Davies - Bass, Eamonn Dougan - Bass

Wigmore Hall, 17-Jan-2019 / 19:30

  • Purcell:
    • The Lord is my light Z55
    • Theodosius, or The Force of Love Z606
      • Prepare, the rites begin!
      • Canst thou, Marina
      • The gate to bliss
      • Hark! Behold the heavn'ly choir
      • Now, now the fight's done
    • God save our sov'reign Charles Z250

Cadogan Hall, 18-Dec-2018 / 19:30

  • Sweelinck: Hodie Christus natus est
  • Howells: Sing lullaby
  • RR Bennett: Susanni
  • Traditional: The Saviour’s Work (The babe in Bethlem’s manger laid)
  • Walton: All this time
  • Plainsong: Anima nostra (Offertory for Holy Innocents)
  • Kirbye: Vox in Rama
  • Leighton: Coventry Carol

Favourite Christmas pieces

Walter Lambe's Nesciens mater performed in 2015 (December 10 and 16).

Morten Lauridsen 's O magnum mysterium (1994) performed in 2015 (December 10) an 2014 (December).

Elizabeth Poston's Jesus Christ the Apple Tree performed in 2019 (December 16 and 17 and November).

Kim Porter's Christmas bringeth Jesus (Christmas Eve) performed in 2019 (November) and twice in 2017 (December).

Tallis' ‘Gloria’ from Puer natus est nobis and Videte miraculum performed in 2015 (December 16 and 10).

John Tavener's O, do not move (a miniature Ikon of the Nativity) and The Lamb performed in 2015 (December 16 and 10).

Plainsong Nesciens mater performed in 2015 (December 16 and 10).

Kings Place, 9-Nov-2018 / 19:00

  • Britten:
    • Advance Democracy
    • Sacred and Profane
  • Cornysh: Salve Regina

The Sixteen first performed the above programme at St James's Spanish Place on the 11th of September 2018.

Wigmore Hall, 23-Jun-2018 / 19:30

Handel: Acis and Galatea HWV49

  • Grace Davidson as Galatea, Mark Dobell as Damon, Jeremy Budd as Acis, Simon Berridge as Coridon, Stuart Young as Polyphemus

Kings Place, 16-Jun-2018 / 19:00

  • Sheppard:
    • In manus tuas Domine II (Compline)
    • Libera nos I and II (Matins)
    • In pace (Ps 4)
  • Byrd:
    • Oculi omnium in te sperant Domine (Ps 144)
    • Miserere mei (Ps 4)
  • Palestrina: Ecce nunc benedicite Dominum (Ps 133)
  • Lassus:
    • Lauda Jerusalem Dominum (Ps 147)
    • Lauda anima mea Dominum (Ps 145)
  • antiphon: Suscepit Deus
  • Anerio: Magnificat a8

The Sixteen is an ensemble founded by conductor Harry Christophers CBE and consisting of a choir and period-instrument orchestra mostly performing early English polyphony, masterpieces of the Renaissance, and other early Classical music.

The Sixteen performed at The Old Royal Naval College on the 9th of May 2018.

Cadogan Hall, 7-Feb-2018 / 19:30

The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra

  • Vivaldi:
    • Sinfonia from La Dorilla RV 709
    • Gloria in D major RV589
  • Bach: Mass in G major BWV236
  • Handel: Overture from Esther (1st version)

Wigmore Hall, 22-Jan-2018 / 19:30

An all Purcell programme

Kings Place, 13-Jan-2018 / 19:30

Cadogan Hall, 18th and 19th of December 2017 / 19:30

The Sixteen performed at St Luke’s Church, between Clapham and Wandsworth Commons on the 9th of December 2017 and at Temple Church on the 14th of November 2017.

Wigmore Hall, 24-Oct-2017 / 19:30

The Sixteen performed a '17th Choral Pilgrimage' on the 6th of September 2017 at St James's Roman Catholic Church in Spanish Place.

Kings Place, 30-Jun-2017 / 19:30

Kings Place, 13-Apr-2017 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 20-Feb-2017 / 19:30

Recital with Fretwork

Cadogan Hall, 8-Feb-2017 / 19:30

An all Bach evening

Kings Place, 3-Nov-2016 / 19:30

Royal Albert Hall, 16-Aug-2016 / 22:15

Wigmore Hall, 7-Jun-2016 / 19:30

An all Purcell programme

Kings Place, 7-May-2016 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 3-Mar-2016 / 19:30

An all Purcell programme

Cadogan Hall, 8-Feb-2016 / 19:30

Cadogan Hall, 16-Dec-2015 / 19:30

Kings Place, 10-Dec-2015 / 19:30

The Temple Church, 9-Nov-2015 / 19:00

Wigmore Hall, 3-Nov-2015 / 19:30

Kings Place, 8-Oct-2015 / 19:30

Kings Place, 7-Jan-2015 / 19:30

Queen Elizabeth Hall, 12-Dec-2014

Cadogan Hall, 10-Nov-2014

Wigmore Hall, 17-Sep-2014

Sixteen Choir and Orchestra

Cadogan Hall, 10-Apr-2014

The Temple Church, 11-Nov-2013

The Sixteen with Harry Christophers conducting made their BBC Proms debut on the 17th of August 1990 in a performance of Francis Poulenc's Figure humaine.