One for Italian speakers out there: wrapping up 2025 with a programme featuring @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir's CD on Italian Radio: www.raiplaysound.it/audio/2025/1...
Something a bit unusual for the season, from our new @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir disc: Byrd's Ne irascaris, Domine re-arranged for Christmas, as heard in Peterhouse Chapel at Christmas in the 1630s
open.spotify.com/track/51kurW...
Last year I commissioned Ben Ponniah to write a new setting of Herbert's Christmas poem 'The Shepherds Sing' - the result is simply divine. @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir's new recording of it is about to be released this afternoon at 1pm over on youtube:
youtu.be/fENaIO5DpIY?...
Really thrilled to see that @stmartinsvoices.bsky.social have included this carol by James Whitbourn on their latest album from @resonus.bsky.social, which I commissioned back in the dark days of Covid for @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir - do listen:
open.spotify.com/track/3DR3HE...
Look what we have here then.
Listening now: really rather liked that new Rutter introit that marries together Herbert's 'The Call' with a Gibbons 'Song 13' (but then I would say that about anything that combines Herbert and Gibbons...)
Recommended release from MusicWeb International:
“well prepared, with accurate intonation and most expressive singing, and the whole disc is a pleasure to hear…I hope the choir goes on to record more from their Partbooks"
Full review: musicwebinternational.com/.../music-fr...
naxos.lnk.to/8574700AC
Very pleased to see our Bee-ing Human film on the @leverhulme.ac.uk website. I will be sharing more from our science-humanities project on bee sentience soon as we finalise our bee book this autumn media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/charle...
Just received the first review of our new @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir CD, and it's a cracker:
🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 from BBC Music Magazine
Praised for its “warmly blended account”, & the way it “catches winningly the bounding enthusiasm...and bright buoyant rhythms” of this music
Echoing Victoria: it was such a privilege to take part in what turned out to be Melvyn's last series of #InOurTime - and it's really flattering to see our episode on George Herbert listed in @thetimes.com top 15 episodes of the show yesterday
www.thetimes.com/article/bdea...
If anyone is interested in a 20% discount for my Herbert and Music book, I've just received this flyer with a discount code:
www.cambridge.org/se/universit...
Inevitable, I suppose, but #InOurTime won't be quite the same again: what a landmark moment. I feel so lucky to have snuck in at the eleventh hour for his final series. All the best to Melvyn on his retirement, & @simontillotson.bsky.social as he steers the ship into new waters with a new presenter
And, if you're interested in my thoughts about the experience of performing this weird and wonderful piece of 17thC ecological minimalism (yes - it absolutely has all of those things) you can read my short essay here (& do explore the rest of the site!)
bee-inghuman.newcastle.ac.uk/music/perfor...
🐝🐝🐝 New to the @leverhulme.ac.uk 'Bee-ing Human' book: do watch and share our 7 mins film about Charles Butler's queen bee piping song, recorded in @theul.bsky.social and @peterhousecam.bsky.social with @sjjackson32.bsky.social Magnus Williamson, Richard Wistreich and choir.
“Church-bels beyond the starres heard” 3-5 Oct: a relaxed weekend of listening, reflecting and learning on the home soil where Herbert was parish priest @sarumcollege.bsky.social with the wonderful Prof Helen Wilcox and the eorge Herbert in Bemerton Group: www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course... Book now!
And, for some déjà vu (déjà entendu?) here’s the 18 year old Wilson taking his lead from Byrd, note for note, in Peterhouse Chapel the 1630s: open.spotify.com/track/4XEVQu...
Today, two tracks: one very well-known, the second more unfamiliar. Thomas Wilson, about 18 when he became organist at @peterhousecam.bsky.social, borrowed the opening of William #Byrd’s “Prevent us O Lord” and then takes off in his own fresh direction. Here’s Byrd: open.spotify.com/track/0r3TpY...
Come one, come all to lovely Liverpool to hear some fabulous scholarship!
Wonderful!
I want to share some tracks over the next few days from our new @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir Naxos CD:
William Smith’s Responses are well-known, but have you ever heard his incredible festal setting of Psalm 85? I think it’s fabulous:
open.spotify.com/track/2hXPpZVH…
Out now! Peterhouse Choir's debut album, 'Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks', is released today and available to stream and buy. Find out more: www.pet.cam.ac.uk/news/choirs-...
This is a realy powerful piece. How on earth did we get to where we are now?
Always proud of the things Peterhouse Choir achieve, but never more so than on days like this, when the Choir's first ever album goes on general release with Naxos. Remarkable music from @peterhousecam.bsky.social Chapel from the 1630s
Listen here: naxos.lnk.to/8574700AC
Reading Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus. That's a pretty nice chord, Thomas:
After several years of neglect, I’ve finally got round to updating my academia profile - check it out here:
cambridge.academia.edu/SimonJackson
On general release later this month:
youtu.be/TaJdKily0Iw?...
@peterhousecam.bsky.social
Possibly the last photo of the @leverhulme.ac.uk Bee-ing Human team, as we work to bring our project to conclusion later this year. We will share the url for our project site soon! @viveknityananda.bsky.social @oliviasmith.bsky.social @racheljwillie.bsky.social @sjjackson32.bsky.social
So excited for the release of my first disc with the Peterhouse Choir and Naxos - glorious music from 1630s @peterhousecam.bsky.social Chapel. For release August 22nd. Watch the trailer here:
youtu.be/oduIl9eRA0Y?...
Something for May Week from the Choir of @peterhousecam.bsky.social
youtu.be/3UVoioiV_mE
