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

Countertenor Mark Chambers reflects on the history of Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles. “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” Plato The ability of a piece of music, a smell or a taste to recall instant memories is something fascinating to me, and having… continued

The atmosphere in and around St Davids Cathedral is truly special and for this, my fourth visit to the town, it was no exception. Walking around all the beautiful houses in the Cathedral Close and looking at the ruins of the old Bishop’s Palace one can’t stop one’s imagination from running wild, picturing what it… continued

We are thrilled to announce that we have won the BBC Music Magazine Choral Award 2016 for our recording of Brahms and Bruckner motets in aid of Macmillan Cancer Research! We are delighted to have won this coveted prize for the second time, having previously received the award for our recording of Victoria Requiem Mass,… continued

A great start to 2016 appearing at the fab London A Cappella Festival at Kings Place curated by The Swingle Singers. They’re clearly doing great things there in developing a huge and varied interest in singing of all manner of vocal ensembles. We were honoured to be opening the festival and it was a hugely… continued

Tenebrae ends 2015 with great success as their latest recording, Bruckner and Brahms Motets is BBC Music Magazine’s Recording of the Month. It celebrates some of the greatest choral motets by Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner, whose music boasts a rich brocade of the old, the new, the complex and the intense. Nigel Short entwines… continued

At St Martin-in-the Fields in November we did the first of our major The Tenebrae Effect workshop. Henry Southern our manager was delighted to tell me it had sold out within a week of being advertised and that we had to increase the capacity for the event in order to fit in everyone who wanted to… continued