The recording project involved a significant financial undertaking, with the budget being described as 'frightening' before sufficient funds were raised.
Composition History
Several works on this recording, which survive as incomplete fragments, have been specially reconstructed to approximate their original state.
Interpretation
This recording deliberately varies performance styles, sometimes combining wind instruments like cornetts and sackbuts with voices and organ for grand ceremonial sounds, and other times featuring voices alone or with viols.
Composition History
Many works on this album were created for specific royal occasions, including James I's coronation in 1603, his recovery from illness, and the investiture and funeral of his son, Prince Henry.
Composition History
Some pieces on this album address political issues of their time, such as the execution of Jesuit priests in 1581 and the Civil War in the 1640s.
Recording & Production
This recording celebrates 25 years of The Sixteen, a vocal ensemble, and was conceived to showcase both musical roots and advances in recording technology.
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