My choice is Geistliches Lied by Johannes Brahms from the Brahms and Bruckner disc. It speaks for itself. My only advice is to turn up the volume for the Amen. It was an honour to be a member of that bass section. Everything else on the disc is great too. I’ve been watching the HBO… continued

Lissie: Funnily enough, we’ve both picked tracks from the same Tenebrae album, Songs of Farewell; it was the first recording of Tenebrae’s I heard and contains some of my all-time favourite music. It’s so hard to choose between the numbers on the CD, let alone between the individual movements of the Parry! I have to… continued

I’m going with the Gretchaninov Now the Powers of Heaven – first track of Russian Treasures CD.  The Russian Treasures album launch at St James’ Spanish Place was my first Tenebrae gig back in early 2015, and it still sends shivers down my spine from the very first chord.  I think it’s a track that… continued

Since the last time I wrote a blog our world has seemingly turned upside down. No-one can have escaped the effects of the current outbreak of COVID-19, and whilst we are mindful of those who need help most we are also, as musicians, suffering in our own particular way. I won’t bore readers with the… continued

We’ve asked our singers to name their favourite Tenebrae tracks and the music that’s keeping them going at the moment. Have a listen to the Spotify playlist for the full selection. Hannah King: A favourite track of mine is Footsteps, by Owain Park. I’m a bit biased as he’s my other half, but that’s actually… continued

What inspired the programme you’re bringing to the Holy Week Festival? Tell us a bit about the music and what we should listen out for. The Mass in B Minor is Bach’s final great work, a testament of his life’s work. For me it is deeply philosophical, and one can sense completely what Bach the… continued

What inspired the programme you’re bringing to the Holy Week Festival? Tell us a bit about the music and what we should listen out for. Our concert consists entirely of various settings of the famous Easter text Crucifixus pro nobis. Whilst some interpretations we will present date back to the early 1700s, we will be performing… continued

What inspired the programme you’re bringing to the Holy Week Festival? Tell us a bit about the music and what we should listen out for. We’re performing an amazing eight-part mass setting for Easter by the late Renaissance composer Hieronymus Praetorius. It’s effervescent music. We’ve contrasted it with a series of motets for Holy Week… continued

I’m sitting in a well-known-yet-as-usual-slightly-disappointing coffee chain in Boston, reminiscing about the wonderful week I spent with my Tenebrae friends last month. It’s been three years since I left Europe and headed down-under to take up the post of Director of Music at Trinity College, Melbourne, and it was a real treat to be invited… continued

36,000 feet up in the air and somewhere over the Hudson Bay, we are on our way home. We have turned back from the furthest point on the tour (122° W and thus a third of the way around the globe) after the last gig of the trip in Ashland, Oregon at the University of… continued

The day started with an 08.30 departure for our drive to Salt Lake City for our flight to LA. The weather was pretty rough as we departed and there were a fair few bumps on the flight both on the way up and the way down. Not my favourite thing… We arrived into LA to… continued

We had a rare morning off, and I began it by eating too much granola. As a relative newcomer to touring life, one thing I’m still learning is how to pace myself at hotel breakfasts. With an empty stomach and effectively unlimited food, I overdo it time after time. I realised I’ve developed a lot… continued