Blest Cecilia: Britten Choral Works Volume I. Album by The Sixteen

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Blest Cecilia: Britten Choral Works Volume I. Album by The SixteenAlbum Description This superb new compilation features some of the highlights of The Sixteen's twentieth century repertoire, Hymns to St Cecilia,St Columba and Hymn to the Virgin, along with Rejoice in the Lamb, and "Choral Dances" from Gloriana. This is Britten, a genius at the centre of his country's artistic life, celebrating his own cultural and historic heritage in the optimistic dawn of the "new Elizabethan" age. A highly appropriate release

Sinfonia (Act 2)

SACRED AND PROFANE

For the flowers are great blessings

Recorded live at The Sixteen's Handel in Oxford Festival

(Soprano I & II) - Laudamus te

For this splendid ceremony the English Chapel Royal and choir of St Paul's were joined by Prince Philip of Spain's Capilla Flamenca to sing music by great composers from both countries

The first disc – Pérotin and the Ars Antiqua - won a Diapason D’Or

Paul's Cathedral in 1554 was a celebratory focal point of an extraordinary resurgence of the Catholic faith in England

For the 3rd Day of Christmas

The depths have covered them

Aria: Venti

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

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