Search - Robert Carver, Harry Christophers :: Robert Carver: O bene Jesu; Missa Dum sacrum mysterium; Magnificat

"Regal sumptuousness ... extraordinary, powerful music." -- The Sunday Times "Christophers is alive to the rhythmic energy contained within the mass and motet ... the sound quality and production values are exemplary." -- Early Music Today Rare repertoire by one of Scotland's most important historic composers. The massive granite-like choral writing of early sixteenth-century Scottish choral music is displayed in Carver's magnificent nineteen-voice votive antiphon O bone Jesu, written for James IV King of Scots. The large-scale Mass Dum sacrum convivium, with its sumptuous polyphony, may well have been sung at the coronation of James V in 1513. Carver's unique and compelling sound world is recreated here with polish and conviction by The Sixteen. Founded in 1977 by its director, Harry Christophers, the group's eighty-plus albums have received nearly every major prize of the recording industry including the prestigious Gramophone Award for Early Music. The Sixteen's special reputation for early English polyphony, masterpieces of the Renaissance, and a diversity of twentieth century music is founded on precision, a naturalness of performance, a revealing clarity and beauty of sound, and a dramatic intensity of delivery.