A podcast exploring old music and new music. The Marian Consort is a Gramophone Award-nominated vocal ensemble, recognised for its innovative presentation of a ...
Our Executive Director, James, talks to East Anglia-based musician and composer Laura Cannell about her new commission for The Marian Consort. We talk about Laura's love of folklore, what it was like writing for voices for the first time, and how ancient music has influenced her contemporary practice.
Intro music: Laura Cannell - When I returned you were gone
Outro music: Laura Cannell - The Girl Who Became an Owl
In this episode Rory McCleery talks to Scottish-Greek composer Electra Perivolaris. Next month we give the world premiere of our commission from Electra called 'A Winged Woman', which we'll also release on record later this year. Electra tells us about her time living on the Isle of Arran, her musical influences and big breaks with the BBC, and what inspired her in writing this new work.
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Heinrich, Hans, and the Thirty Years War
Rory McCleery speaks to Peter H. Wilson, Professor of the History of War at Oxford University, and author of 'The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy'. They discuss the origins of the war, and its impact on life, culture, and Heinrich Schütz, who wrote his Kleine geistliche Konzerte during this time of war, famine, and plague.
This episode accompanies Schütz 2: A lump of earth, which you can watch here: https://www.marianconsort.co.uk/demand/lump-of-earth.
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Performing death
This podcast looks at Heinrich Schütz's Musikalische Exequien, funeral music written for Heinrich 'Posthumous' of Reuss. Rory McCleery is joined by Dr Lesel Dawson (Bristol University/Good Grief Festival) to discuss 17th-century ideas about death and mourning, and what psychological as well as spiritual benefit there might be to planning your own funeral.
The Orbis sensualium pictus can be seen here: https://archive.org/details/johamoscommeniio00come/mode/2up
This episode accompanies Schütz 1: Vale of tears, which you can watch here: https://www.marianconsort.co.uk/demand/vale-of-tears.
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Produced by James Hardie
A podcast exploring old music and new music. The Marian Consort is a Gramophone Award-nominated vocal ensemble, recognised for its innovative presentation of a broad range of repertoire. Led by founder and director, Rory McCleery, The Marian Consort performs across the UK, Europe and North America, and features regularly on BBC Radio 3.
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