Genesis Foundation

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Listen to excerpts from Genesis Foundation commissions by clicking on the track in the audio player below. 

James MacMillan: Stabat mater

The Sixteen, Britten Sinfonia, Harry Christophers
COR16150

In March 2017, The Sixteen released the world premiere recording of James MacMillan’s Stabat mater, commissioned by the Genesis Foundation and dedicated to John Studzinski, on their own record label, CORO. Stabat mater has received rave reviews across the board and was selected as Gramophone’s Recording of the Month in May 2017.

  • More information can be found here.
  • A video about the project can be viewed here.

 

An excerpt from an interview given by John Studinski on Resonance FM The Opera Show

 

Stabat Mater: Spirit, Strength & Sorrow

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
COR16127

Released in November 2014, the CD Spirit, Strength & Sorrow is the result of The Sixteen’s third major collaboration with the Genesis Foundation, featuring three new commissions of Stabat Mater settings by Alissa Firsova, Tõnu Kõrvits and Matthew Martin. The works received their world premieres at a sell-out free lunchtime concert at LSO St Luke’s in June 2014.

  • To read more about Alissa Firsova, Tõnu Kõrvits and Matthew Martin please visit the commissions page.
  • To read more about this project, click here.

 

O Guiding Night

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
COR16069

The productive partnership between The Sixteen and the Genesis Foundation continued in May 2011 with the release of a CD of six new choral works from three of Britain’s most exciting contemporary composers: Tarik O’Regan, Roderick Williams and Ruth Byrchmore.

 

Padre Pio – Prayer

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
COR16071

In June 2008 at Westminster Cathedral, The Sixteen gave premieres of three works commissioned by the Genesis Foundation, each a setting of Padre Pio’s Prayer after Communion, Stay with Me Lord.