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The Sixteen and their conductor Harry Christophers stop at York Minster to perform as part of the 2026 York Early Music Festival as part of their annual Choral Pilgrimage.

Spain鈥檚 Siglo de oro, the "Age of Gold", gave rise to some of the greatest sacred choral music of the Renaissance. The Sixteen explore majestic works by Crist贸bal de Morales, famed throughout Europe and in the New World, and the exquisite polyphony of Sebasti谩n de Vivanco, whose intricately crafted counterpoint adorned services at the cathedrals of 脕vila and Salamanca. The programme also features spellbinding settings of words by St John Henry Newman: Sir James MacMillan鈥檚 "Nothing in vain", and the world premiere of NCEM Young Composers Award alumna Kerensa Briggs鈥檚 "Lead, kindly light".

Recorded at York Minster on 4 July 2026. Presented by Hannah French.

Sebasti谩n de Vivanco - Christus factus est pro nobis
Cristobal de Morales - Emendemus in melius
Sebasti谩n de Vivanco - Assumpta est Maria
Cristobal de Morales - Gaude et laetare ferrariensis civitas
Kerensa Briggs - Lead, kindly light
Sebasti谩n de Vivanco - Magnificat octavi toni
Sebasti谩n de Vivanco - Caritas Pater est
Cristobal de Morales - Lamentabatur Jacob
Sir James MacMillan - Nothing in vain
Cristobal de Morales - Jubilate Deo omnis terra
Sebasti谩n de Vivanco - O quam suavis est, Domine
Cristobal de Morales - Exaltata est sancta Dei genitrix

The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)

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