We’re delighted that our album A Prayer for Deliverance (June 2025)  has won the German Record Critics’ Award! “The ensemble’s new CD is an intensely sonorous prayer for deliverance, filled with comforting works and masterpieces of the British Choral tradition.” We’re very grateful for this recognition and would like to thank the Award for the… continued

Nigel was pleased to be interviewed by David Smith at Presto Music about our most recent album release, A Prayer for Deliverance.   Among the highly competitive world of English choral musicmaking, Tenebrae are generally acclaimed as the very best of the best. Their recordings frequently set new benchmarks against which other accounts are measured…. continued

A Prayer for Deliverance has been out for a month! This album, featuring Joel Thompson’s A Prayer for Deliverance, music by living composers including Joanna Marsh and Cecilia McDowall, lesser-heard choral repertoire, and familiar favourites such as Arthur Sullivan’s The Long Day Closes, is available to buy or stream. Since the album launch, we have… continued

We’re thrilled that A Prayer for Deliverance has been named BBC Radio3’s’ Album of the Week! Georgia Mann described us as “one of the best vocal ensembles in the business” and played Cecilia McDowall’s Standing As I Do Before God. To listen to the programme ‘Essential Classics’ on BBC Sounds, click here, and head to… continued

We are touched to have received some wonderful reviews of our recent release, A Prayer for Deliverance. If you would like to listen to the album’s mention on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review, click here, and skip through to about 00:21:30. To buy the album, head to our shop here, or to stream, click here…. continued

We’re excited to share that our new album, A Prayer for Deliverance is available now to buy and stream!   Recorded in July 2024 at Ampleforth Abbey, this disc mixes iconic choral works with music by some of today’s most exciting composers. The programme is centred around themes of rest, and Joel Thompson’s virtuosic new… continued

We are excited to announce that, in order to mark the composer’s 50th birthday and the 100th anniversary of Poland’s independence, we have released an album of choral works by Polish composer Paweł Łukaszewski. Łukaszewski is regarded as the best-known Polish composer of his generation. There is a sacred theme to much of his work… continued