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Review title: Shamefully Bad!
Product review: And shamefully hyped, as well! "In Honor of JS Bach"? Where's the honor in such a patched-together program?This is basically Bach's oft-recorded "Magnificat", with headers and footers, portions of other Bach cantatas, an awful massacre of Antonio Caldara's "Crucifixus and a snippit Heinrich Schuetz's "Musikalische Exequien", both elegant 17th C works sung by The Sixteen as if they were choruses from a lost Wagner opera. The "Magnificat" is music so magnificent that it's hard to spoil, but The Sixteen come close. Their version is thick and church-choir-like in timbre, sluggish in tempi, and from gruff to maudlin in affect.The Sixteen have made some splendid recordings. This is not one of them.
