Name: The Sixteen
Start: 2015-06-03T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2015-06-03T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Christ Church Spitalfields

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Spitalfields Summer Festival

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The Sixteen Orchestra

Conductor

Harry Christophers

The Sixteen

London

United Kingdom

Christ Church Spitalfields

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Faire Is The Heaven

The Gallant Weaver

Hymn To Saint Cecilia

Lay a garland

Dance, Clarion Air

Take him, Earth, for cherishing

When David Heard

Three Motets Op. 76

Bring us, O Lord God

When David heard that Absalon was Slain

Into Thy Hands

Five Motets

When David heard

Jnanakumar P

Approved

Vocal ensemble The Sixteen return to the glorious surroundings of Hawksmoor’s Christ Church Spitalfields. They explore the intimate relationship between poetry and music in a programme of a cappella English works from across the centuries. Resounding harmonies are matched with powerful texts from a wide array of writers.

Enjoy William Harris’s sensitive setting of Elizabeth poet Edmund Spenser’s Faire is the heaven, Benjamin Britten and WH Auden’s collaboration Hymn to St Cecilia, and the recently rediscovered anthem by World War I poet and composer Ivor Gurney of Robert Bridges’s Since I believe in God the Father Almighty.

Supported by Alan Moses & Dinah Casson in memory of Eric & Pearl Moses

English

The Sixteen by Harris, W. H., MacMillan, Britten, Pearsall, Tippett, Howells, H., Weelkes, Rubbra, Ramsey, R., Dove, Tomkins, T., East, From (2015/2015), Conductor Harry Christophers, Christ Church Spitalfields, London, United Kingdom

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