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 are absolutely delighted to share that we have won an Opus Klassik Award for our performance of Handel’s Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music. We were awarded the ‘Orchestra/Ensemble Live Performance of the Year’ prize for our performance in Wiesbaden on 6th December 2024. In Nigel’s words, performing the Messiah is always a… 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

Tenebrae was delighted to be invited back to the Lammermuir Festival this season presenting its new programme of Brahms and Bruckner Motets (in advance of the official launch concert on November 12th). This was followed by a selection of music by Orlando Gibbons with Tenebrae Consort and the fantastic viol consort, Phantasm which received rave reviews:… continued

Our latest album, with celebrated British composer Will Todd, will be Classic FM‘s Album of the Week for the week beginning 29 September 2014.  This new release on Signum Records builds on the success of Tenebrae’s previous partnerships with the composer, including the 2012 recording of Todd’s ‘The Call of Wisdom’ alongside the English Chamber Orchestra, described… continued

Tenebrae have returned from their three day residency at the Lammermuir Festival, Scotland.  We performed a variety of programmes in some of East Lothian’s most beautiful venues and were completely bowled over by the audience reception we received. Alan Coady from Bachtrack gave the choir a wonderful 5 star review for our Russian Treasures concert… continued