The Sixteen - Spanish Renaissance Music: R3 Live in Concert

[doversoul1]

Anyone listening? They should be good but I’m not too sure about this performance or how it sounds. It sounds…. modern to me. (more than likely, it’s just me)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060zrx5

[ardcarp]

The Sixteen - Live in Concert...

...right now from York Minster, in a programme of Guerrero and Lobo (or Lobbo as the announcer would have it.)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060zrx5

[Roehre]

Anyone listening? They should be good but I’m not too sure about this performance or how it sounds. It sounds…. modern to me. (more than likely, it’s just me)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060zrx5

Well, to my ears too: I still prefer an approach not dissimilar to that of Ensemble organum.
Beautifully sung, but to my ears this is too soft-edged, too smooth if you like

[DracoM]

The BBC bills the concert as set in 'cosmopolitan' Seville. In that case, there would seem to be a reasonable chance in a relatively small city that influences of Arabic, Judaic music would come to bear on Christian, even monastic music, and how it sounded and maybe how it was performed, either by deliberate imitation, or osmosis.

The Sixteen's unparalleled, consummate, mixed gendered professionalism is about as far from that rich polyglot atmosphere as it is possible to get, I would hazard.

Ensemble Organum might indeed have been closer. For me, The Sixteen are self-consciously beautiful, and tend to homogenise. It is of course 'their brand', and they do it brilliantly.

[Old Grumpy]

Enjoying it now...


... and looking forward to seeing The Sixteen in Durham Cathedral later this year