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Today's Video of the Day is a performance of Paul Smith's new composition 'Karitas' by VOCES8 and the VOCES8 Scholars, conducted by Barnaby Smith, with guest soloists Christophe Duquesne, Teena Lyle, ...
Part of the Choir & Organ New Music partnership scheme, composer Conrad Asman has commissioned a new text from Rory Stewart for this double-choir work ...
Music by JS Bach and Vaughan Williams featured prominently at the 2001 edition of the Gramophone Awards, with the top prize going to RVW's A London Symphony ...
This week we explore new releases from the BBC Philharmonic and John Storgårds, Dover Quartet, Gilbert Rowland, Abel Selaocoe and Can Çakmur ...
Encouraging the American male voice Jonathan Ambrosino Friday, August 15, 2025 At a seminary in Texas, Jonathan Ambrosino finds something beyond the French names in a new instrument from the Noack ...
Cecilia McDowall has a gift for dramatizing those stilled and frozen moments in ordinary life when infinity seems to intrude into the everyday, eternity stalls the ticking of the clock. The covid ...
With its Grammy awards and numerous high-profile collaborations across 20 years, what makes The Crossing a choir of its time is more about the people and the risks they are willing to take, finds ...
Based in Manchester, Kantos Chamber Choir is the only professional chamber choir in the North of England. As it celebrates its 10th anniversary, and with a debut album released, Megan Steller meets ...
Unearthing Britain’s forgotten piano quintet treasures Leon Bosch Friday, August 15, 2025 'I derive infinitely greater satisfaction from bringing new, unknown, and unjustly neglected compositions to ...
In a time-honoured liturgical sequence sacred music finds its essential meaning: here it can be experienced as a Mass and Benediction for Corpus Christi. Since the middle ages the veneration of the ...
An exceptionally fine survey of Rorem’s sacred choral music – riveting performances that reveal both finesse and fire ...