Limelight Award for Fading

We are thrilled that Fading has been awarded Vocal Recording of the Year by Limelight. “These performances are superb: precision, warmth, power and delicacy united in an utterly beguiling whole, all the while maintaining perfect definition as each vocal tonality inhabits its own sphere,” wrote Lisa MacKinney, also admiring the recording from… Continue reading

Fading nominated for Limelight award

Our latest album, Fading has been nominated for Limelight’s Recording of the Year 2020. Limelight’s critics have picked their 25 favourite recordings from the last 12 months. Rarities include a Mass by Jan Ladislav Dussek (rediscovered by Richard Egarr) and William Alwyn’s operatic version of Strindberg’s Miss Julie. Finally, two discs… Continue reading

Radiant Dawn: new commissions

We are delighted to be co-commissioning a series of new works for our Radiant Dawn programme with trumpeter, Matilda Lloyd. Richard Barnard: ‘Aura’ The first piece we commissioned was written by Richard Barnard, who chose a text by Emily Berry for his piece, ‘Aura’. We gave the world premiere of… Continue reading

Performances in August 2020

St John’s Smith Square Canon and Invention Tuesday 4 August 2020 at 8.00 PM Join us online for our performance as part of St John’s Smith Square’s Digital Exchange project. Our programme explores the roots of fugue in musical canons from Italy, featuring works by Ockeghem, Josquin and Mouton. Broadcast details… Continue reading

Call for Graphic Scores

‪The Hermes Experiment are inviting composers to submit graphic scores for premiere in collaboration with The Gesualdo Six this Autumn. They are looking for pieces linked to reconnection and new beginnings. Email hermesexperiment@gmail.com or tweet @TheHExperiment by 15 September at 5pm.  The winner will be announced on 17 September 2020. #LondonSoundGallery Find out… Continue reading

BBC Choral Evensong

The team at St. Martin-in-the-fields, ready for perform Live on BBC Radio 3's Choral Evensong.

We sang a service of Choral Evensong live on BBC Radio 3 from St Martin-in-the-Fields on Wednesday 19 August at 3.30pm. Many of us grew up singing Choral Evensong at churches around the UK and it was wonderful to bring these shared experiences together. The psalms were specially adapted for… Continue reading

Music at the Tower

On Saturday 1 August, we will be performing our first open-air concert since lockdown as part of ‘Music at the Tower’. The series is an impromptu summer festival started by Mary Bevan MBE and William Thomas, held at the beautiful surroundings of St Mary’s Tower, Hornsey. The aim is to… Continue reading