Browse: Coro (label)

Singing and playing on the highest level from every department. — BBC Music Magazine More…

Deft, precise and cleanly executed, these performances from The Sixteen's Britten choral series come up fresh as paint in this repackaging (A Boy was Born is the other main work). — BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Christophers is in his element here, and though his string ensemble is half the size of Purcell’s Twenty-Four Violins, he coaxes a robust, full-bodied sound from his players. The detailed recording... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Sixteen, under Harry Christophers, has developed its own mellifluous, disciplined manner, manicured and highly polished. — The Telegraph More…

[Christophers] fields an impressive period-instrument orchestra, and a game and regularly strong choir...Of the soloists, the finest is Gillian Keith, consistently graceful and utterly winning... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The Sixteen’s complete recording of the Selva morale collection has been praised in these pages, and the qualities of ensemble are certainly worth noting here also. They are heard to best effect... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2016 More…

The artistry of The Sixteen makes this disc worthwhile. More satisfying, however, would be if the group would re-engage with under- or never-recorded Tudor masterpieces, rather than with its... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This Marian 'kick-start' to the Sixteen's Victoria series is with one exception given over to sumptuous eight-part polyphony showing the 'fit' and 'finish' of the choir at its most scrupulous. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…