Anerio / Allegri / Palestrina / Marenzio: Music from the Sistine Chapel

A new program from The Sixteen features music written for the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican during the Renaissance. Includes several world premiere recordings. The Sixteen is one of the jewels in the musical crown of Britain, and enjoys a worldwide reputation. Founded in 1977 by its director, Harry Christophers, its eighty+ CDs 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 a naturalness of performance, a revealing clarity and beauty of sound, precision, and a dramatic intensity of delivery.