Getting to know Tübingen
After an evening singing and socialising with our friends from Semiseria Chor, we've spent our first full day in Tübingen relaxing and exploring this delightfully pretty city.
After an evening singing and socialising with our friends from Semiseria Chor, we've spent our first full day in Tübingen relaxing and exploring this delightfully pretty city.
A look ahead to our first ever overseas tour: we're off to Tübingen, Durham's twin city in Germany, where we'll be singing music from our Sing unto the Lord programme.
Julian Wright's programme note for our summer concert on 30 June, "O Sing unto the Lord"
This recital focuses intensely on absence, loss and the afterlife, through richly scored masterpieces for multi-voice choir from the baroque and the early twentieth century.
A look at Parry's Songs of Farewell: intimate reflections on the end of life that are very different from his better-known pieces for grand public occasions.
Continuing our series blog posts that look beyond the programme biographies, we talked to our Assistant Musical Director Francesca Massey about her musical career and the music she's chosen for our 'Songs of Farewell' concert.
We received generous financial support from the Arts Council National Lottery Fund and from local trusts for our performance of Monteverdi Vespers: this post looks at why this support is so important for our work with young people.
A few examples of the imaginative word painting that we’ve noticed in Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers as we prepare for our performance.
When Monteverdi wrote his 1610 Vespers, the instruments most commonly used in churches, after the organ, were sackbuts and cornetts, and these instruments add their very distinctive flavour to a…
The programme note by our Musical Director, Julian Wright, for our summer concert "The Cloths of Heaven", on 24 June 2017 at St Brandon's Church, Brancepeth. Benjamin Britten’s choral masterpiece, Hymn…