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Around Europe in Holy Week

To mark Holy Week this year we will be giving a series of concerts with The Chilingirian String Quartet. The programme will combine Haydn's Seven last Words from the Cross with Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday. The tour begins in Valencia on 7th April and ends in Cyprus on the 14th. In between we shall be in London, Berlin and Oxford.

I went to the house but did not enter

This new theatre piece by Heiner Goebbels is a co-production of Théâtre Vidy, Lausanne and others. It had its premiere at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival. You can read about it in more detail here. You can find information about further performances on the Concerts page.

Heiner Goebbels

All production photos © Mario del Curto

Co-produced by Theatre Vidy Lausanne, Schauspielfrankfurt, spielzeiteuropa / Berliner Festspiele
Grand Theatre Luxembourg, Fondazione Teatro Comunale & Auditorium Bolzano
co-comissioned by University North Carolina,Hopkins Center / Dartmouth College,
Walker Arts Center, Savannah Music Festival, Wexner Center (USA)

New Compositions

We have several new pieces on the way. Fabio Vacchi's Memoria Italiana will receive its first performance in Città di Castello on 1st September and we will be performing a new piece by Simon Bainbridge together with the Arditti Quartet in November - more details to follow shortly.

Roger Marsh's Il Cor Tristo, a setting of texts from Dante's Inferno, had its first performance in Perugia on 15th September 2008. We have a couple of performances coming up and hope to incorporate this work into a new regular programme.

New Recordings

We have two new albums out on ECM; Audivi Vocem includes Christopher Tye's Mean Mass in a new edition by David Skinner, together with motets by Tye, Tallis and Sheppard. For this recording we were joined by Robert Macdonald.

The second recording includes Alexander Raskatov's realisation of Alfred Schnittke's last symphony and features us in Rasktov's tribute to Schnittke Nunc Dimittis. You can find details of the recordings and background notes on the ECM website.

Hilliard LIVE

If you have been to any of our concerts over the past few years you may be aware of the Hilliard LIVE series of recordings. All four of these were recorded at public concerts and, until now, have only been available at our gigs. That is all changing. The four discs are now available on the Coro label. We are really pleased that these recordings are now accessible to a wider audience.

For more information visit the Coro website.

These reissues include texts, translations and the original notes but not the four articles on tuning written by Rogers Covey-Crump. These are now available for you to download.

Rogers's tuning articles