The Sixteen • Lead, Kindly Light (CD)

Name: The Sixteen • Lead, Kindly Light (CD)
Brand: CORO Records
SKU: COR16218
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Spain’s Siglo de Oro, the Age of Gold, gave rise to some of the greatest sacred choral music of the Renaissance. Lead, Kindly Light is devoted to the music of two outstanding Spanish composers exploring majestic works by Cristóbal de Morales, famed throughout Europe and in the New World, and the exquisite polyphony of Sebastián de Vivanco, whose intricately crafted counterpoint adorned services at the cathedrals of Ávila and Salamanca during the late 1500s.

Contrasting and complementing these 16th-century masterpieces are spellbinding settings of words by Saint John Henry Newman: Sir James MacMillan’s Nothing in vain for soloists and double choir and the world premiere of Kerensa Briggs’ Lead, kindly light, specially commissioned for this album and The Sixteen’s 2026 UK Choral Pilgrimage.

VIVANCO Christus factus est pro nobis
MORALES Emendemus in melius
VIVANCO Assumpta est Maria a6
MORALES Gaude et laetare Ferrariensis civitas
BRIGGS Lead, kindly light *
VIVANCO Magnificat octavi toni
MORALES Jubilate Deo omnis terra
VIVANCO O quam suavis est, Domine a4
MORALES Exaltata est sancta Dei Genitrix a6
MORALES Lamentabatur Jacob a5
VIVANCO Caritas Pater est a9
MACMILLAN Nothing in vain **

* New Commission & World Premiere Recording
** Commissioned by the Genesis Foundation for The Sixteen & Harry Christophers

The Sixteen
Harry Christophers director

COR16159 • Released 2018