NEW - All the music from the Choral Pilgrimage 2026

Album Description

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.

Artists

The Sixteen
Harry Christophers

Track Listing

Sebastián de VIVANCO 
1. Christus factus est pro nobis

Cristóbal de MORALES 
2.Emendemus in melius

VIVANCO
3. Assumpta est Maria a6

MORALES 
4. Gaude et laetare Ferrariensis civitas

Kerensa BRIGGS
5. Lead, kindly light *

VIVANCO
6. Magnificat octavi toni

MORALES
7. Jubilate Deo omnis terra

VIVANCO
8. O quam suavis est, Domine a4

MORALES
9. Exaltata est sancta Dei Genitrix a6

MORALES 
10. Lamentabatur Jacob a5

VIVANCO 
11. Caritas Pater est a9

James MacMILLAN
12. Nothing in vain **

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