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grandmother moon – Eleanor Daley

Grandmother moon is a setting of a mystical text by a Mi’kmaq poet, Mary Louise Martin, who lives on a small island in British Columbia. The text describes the beauty and tranquillity of a full moon on a clear night…

The Road Home – Paulus

A performance of ‘The Road Home’ by Stephen Paulus, who sadly passed ten years ago now. With this performance, we would like to pay our greatest respects to this remarkable composer. The road home sets Browne’s text to the tune ‘Prospect’, an American shape-note hymn tune compiled in Southern Harmony in 1835…

There is an Old Belief – Parry

With the impact of the First World War, Parry’s ‘Songs of Farewell’ mark a musical call for peace and unity. This, the fourth movement, features a setting of John Gibson Lockhart’s poem, which hopes that one might awaken to a new, serene life ‘on some solemn shore’…

The Turtle Dove – Vaughan Williams

‘The Turtle Dove’ by Ralph Vaughan Williams performed at the Tolosa Choral Contest earlier this year.

Fare you well, my dear, I must be gone, And leave you for a while; If I roam away I’ll come back again…

Il est bel et bon – Passereau

Emulating the style of predecessor Janequin, Passereau’s chanson was supposedly a popular hit on the streets of Venice. It features Passereau’s trademark nonsense syllables to emulate the sounds of chickens, or in fact gossiping.

Vigilate – Byrd

William Byrd’s ‘Vigilate’, performed here in the prize giving ceremony of the Tolosa Choral Contest in the Basque Country, Spain by the Phoenix Consort. Our late offering to Byrd 400, ‘Vigilate’ features some of his finest examples of word painting and counterpoint.