The Sixteen R3 in Concert 15 January

[doversoul1]

Monteverdi's music is linked to the earlier polyphonic tradition that so influenced him, and is interleaved with the Dante-inspired poetry of Seamus Heaney.
The Sixteen, recorded at Kings Place, London on 13 January 2018

Monteverdi: Missa In illo tempore
Gombert: In illo tempore
Victoria and Guerrero: Settings from the Song of Songs
Seamus Heaney: Selections from Station Island

Sean Campion, narrator
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09m8k9s

[BBMmk2]

I will be catching up to with this today! I have seen this choir live three times so far!

[DracoM]

To my surprise, suspicions of vibrato at the top end. Heaney poems nicely delivered and for me were frankly the best things about the programme.
And I never thought I'd ever say a thing like that of a Sixteen programme.

[ardcarp]

I think Kings Place does not have an ideal acoustic...or at least the usual sort of 'Sixteen' acoustical properties...making the singers work a bit harder to produce the goods.

I think many on this Forum who are choral singers will know that a resonant acoustic not only makes you sound better, it helps you to sing better.

There were a few fluffs in the plainsong. Scary stuff unless you do it day in day out and have maybe imbibed it with your mother's milk.....