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The Golden Age of Children’s TV

Throwback to last year’s podcast with Tim Worthington Tim Worthington has a new book out called The Golden Age Of Children’s TV – all about the best, worst and most just plain baffling shows you grew up with in the sixties, seventies and eighties – and the lines are open now for an hour of fun, facts,… Continue reading The Golden Age of Children’s TV

Ave Maria, Bernat Vivancos

The other day I came across a beautiful version of Schubert’s Ave Maria by the Catalan composer, Bernat Vivancos, former Director of Music at L’Escolania de Montserrat. I started reading up on the Escolania and have become rather captivated by this ancient boys’ choir which sings liturgically 365 days a year at the Benedictine monastery… Continue reading Ave Maria, Bernat Vivancos

Les Mystères: attendez l’Époux

Les Mystères: attendez l’Époux New composition by Suzy Robinson #womeninmusic #womencomposers

Musical Miniatures: recording workshop

Philomel is back with some socially-distant workshop-recordings of newly written musical miniatures. Stay, O Sweet from Virelais is a setting of words by John Donne by Canadian-born Glasgow-based composer Emily Doolittle. Recorded in Richmond Unitarian Church, August 2020. Suzy Robinson, Janet Oates and Michael Keen perform. Stay O Sweet (video) Emilydoolittle.com Philomel.co.uk

In Paradisum

from the plainsong Requiem Audio: In Paradisum, Missa pro defunctis

Philomel in Richmond and Rotherhithe

The virtuosic vocal fireworks of the six sopranos of Philomel were displayed once again in a programme celebrating music from Hildegard of Bingen and Barbara Strozzi, all the way through to the present day and four specially-commissioned works on Friday 16 and Saturday 17 March 2018.

Philomel: launch concert

Ego Flos Campi, Caterina Assandra (Suzy Robinson, Emily Peace, Emily Owen, Janet Oates) Colombella, che di latte, Domenico Mazzocchi (Suzy Robinson, Charlotte Moss, James Bramley theorbo, Michael Keen harpsichord) The inaugural concert of Philomel, a new group of six sopranos, in an eclectic programme which included four new pieces (by Janet Oates, Dominic McGonigal, Emily… Continue reading Philomel: launch concert

Après un rêve (Op. 7, No. 1), Gabriel Fauré Sure on this shining night, Samuel Barber O Waly Waly, Benjamin Britten Ave Maria (extract), Bach-Gounod Domine Deus, Antonio Vivaldi (live recording from Santa Maria in Aquiro, Rome) Pie Jesu, from Requiem by Gabriel Fauré

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