Latest stories
-
Piers Connor Kennedy on Nowel el el
11th Dec 2025
The composer and singer talks about his new works featured on Ensemble Pro Victoria's latest album, Nowel.
Featured product
Nowel: Advent & Beyond
Ensemble Pro Victoria, Toby Ward
-
Presto Presents... Alexandra Whittingham
13th Oct 2025
The guitarist joined us last week to celebrate the release of her new album Letters from Paris, a quintessentially French-tinged collection of miniatures and chanson arrangements.
Featured product
Letters From Paris
Alexandra Whittingham (guitar), Carducci Quartet (stringquartet, string quartet), Thea Sayer (doublebass), Matthew Denton (violin), Michelle Fleming (violin), Eoin Schmidt-Martin (viola), Emma Denton (cello), Margarita Balanas (cello), Stephanie Jones (guitar), Jess Gillam (sopranosaxophone)
More products from this article -
Biber's 1681 sonatas from Rachel Podger and Bojan Čičić
4th Jul 2025
Two sparkling performances of the Bohemian violinist-composer's most demanding and virtuosic sonatas, the 1681 Sonatae Violino Solo, come along at once!
-
The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy
19th Jul 2024
Two substantial elegies for Hardy and his first wife Emma by up-and-coming composer Arthur Keegan bookend this mesmerising recital from mezzo Lotte Betts-Dean, guitarist James Girling and the Ligeti Quartet, which also includes Keegan's arrangements of Hardy settings by Imogen Holst, Benjamin Britten and others.
-
Episode 50: A Close-Up Look – Heloïse Werner on her latest solo album
22nd Jun 2024
The singer and composer talks about her second solo album on Delphian, with vocal works ranging from medieval to contemporary (including several of her own adventurous compositions).
-
Brindley Sherratt on Fear No More
25th Apr 2024
Ahead of the release of his debut solo recording (due out on Delphian tomorrow), the veteran British bass discusses his 'upside-down' singing career, overcoming his anxieties about song-recitals, and being told to give up the trumpet by Janet Baker...
Featured product
Fear No More
Brindley Sherratt (bass), Julius Drake (piano)
-
Bob Chilcott's Christmas Oratorio
1st Dec 2023
Benjamin Nicholas and the choir of Merton College, Oxford perform Bob Chilcott's new Christmas Oratorio - filled with lyrical solo writing, beautiful choral numbers and sweeping congregational tunes.
-
Bob Chilcott on his Christmas Oratorio
1st Dec 2023
The composer talks about his new choral work, setting a range of traditional texts to re-tell the Christmas story and just released by the choir of Merton College, Oxford on Delphian Records.
-
Benjamin Nicholas on Orchestrated Anthems
25th Jul 2023
Merton College Choir, the Britten Sinfonia and Benjamin Nicholas present a selection of magnificent orchestrations of favourite church music.
-
Elgan Llŷr Thomas on Unveiled
28th Jun 2023
In the wake of the release of his debut album featuring a bold new translation of Britten's Michelangelo Sonnets (plus music by Tippett, Gipps and Thomas himself), the Welsh tenor discusses queer representation in opera and song - and why he feels that 'it's about time we started adding other stories into the mix'...
-
Ian Venables on the first recordings of his Requiem
18th Jan 2023
The composer talks to David about his Requiem, recorded on Somm Records in 2020 by the choir of Gloucester Cathedral, and more recently in its full orchestral version by the choir of Merton College Oxford and the Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia.
-
Bojan Čičić on La Notte
5th Jan 2023
The Croatian violinist speaks to David and Katherine about his collection of 'Concertos and Pastorales for Christmas Night' with the Illyria Consort, released on Delphian in late November.
Featured product
La Notte
Bojan Čičić (violin), The Illyria Consort
-
Daniel Trocmé-Latter and Patrick Allies on The Mysterious Motet Book of 1539
21st Dec 2022
Siglo de Oro's director Patrick Allies and musicologist Daniel Trocmé-Latter talk about a new recording of Renaissance motets with an unexpected origin.
-
Baroque instrumental music for Christmas from Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort
25th Nov 2022
Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort present an alternative Christmas sound-world, replacing vocal and choral music with string concertos and sonatas from around Europe.
-
Bojan Čičić on Adriatic Voyage
13th Jan 2022
The Croatian violinist talks to Katherine about his Presto Award-winning recording of 'Seventeenth-Century Music from Venice to Dalmatia', released on Delphian last summer and featuring music by composers including Francesco and Gabriele Usper, Ivan Lukačić and Tomaso Cecchino.
-
Episode 24: On Song with The Hermes Experiment
31st Oct 2021
Paul meets the members of The Hermes Experiment, one of the UK's most innovative contemporary music groups, in the week that their second album is released on Delphian Records.
-
Baroque fireworks from Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort
29th Oct 2021
The violinist and his ensemble present four virtuosic concertos, showcasing the legacy of Vivaldi's incredible panache as a performer as well as the earliest origins of what would eventually become the solo violin caprice.
-
Alexandra Whittingham on My European Journey
19th Jun 2021
The guitarist talks about her debut album, released recently on Delphian, which sees her explore European guitar repertoire from Spain to Denmark, via Austria-Hungary and England.
Featured product
My European Journey
Alexandra Whittingham (guitar)
-
A Christmas double-bill from Mexico and Ireland
27th Nov 2020
Two glorious albums from Siglo de Oro and the Choral Scholars of University College Dublin bring us onto the final straight to Christmas – focusing on Central American and Gaelic festive celebrations.
-
Joseph Fort on Holst's Cloud Messenger
30th Jun 2020
Conductor Joseph Fort talks about his recently-released new recording of Holst's Himalayan-inspired work, in Fort's own arrangement for chamber orchestra.
