Jonathan Rose

This is the first recording from the distinguished Choir of Chichester Cathedral on Regent, and celebrates the 400 years since Weelkes’s death with a varied programme of his music, performed in the building where he was Organist and ‘informator choristarum’ (Master of the choristers) for many years, presenting repertoire written for both domestic and sacred performance. This unique collection features a selection of anthems and canticles, both a cappella and with organ continuo, plus six sacred choral works, originally with an outline accompaniment for organ, which have been reconstructed with a full accompaniment for viol consort. Weelkes left no original works for this combination of choir and viol consort so these provide an illuminating and enticing exploration of putative examples of the form. Also included are four original works for viol consort, together with Weelkes’s only two surviving works for solo organ, here played by Thomas Howell, the Cathedral’s organ scholar on the Cathedral’s main organ using the oldest stops – featuring some of the oldest surviving pipework in England – and dating back to the early eighteenth-century instrument, built by John Byfield in 1725. The collaboration of the Cathedral’s Lay Clerks and the The Rose Consort of Viols with the young voices of the Chichester Cathedral Choristers, infuses these accomplished performances with a refreshing element of youthful energy.

Due donne straordinarie: Rose Zimmer, conosciuta da tutti come la Regina Rossa di Sunnyside, nei Queens, è una comunista irriducibile, che s’impone a tutti, vicini, famigliari e membri del partito con l’intransigenza della sua personalità e l’assolutismo delle sue convinzioni. E sua figlia, Miriam, precoce e determinata, lei pure imbevuta di sogni utopici e col desiderio spasmodico di sfuggire all’influenza di Rose per abbracciare la controcultura del Greenwich Village. Sono donne che stregano gli uomini della loro vita…

Among Handel's seventeen English oratorios, Theodora (1750) is unique. The story is not taken from the Bible, it is set in the Christian era, there is no national triumph and it does not end in joy. At the end, the hero and heroine are dead, the community with which the audience identifies is in mortal danger, and the final chorus is in a minor key. As a musical drama, it is the direct ancestor of Dialogues des Carmélites . At the age of 65, Handel produced a work that was too radical and complex for most of his audience. Today, Theodora is regarded as a benchmark "thinking person’s opera", both deeply stimulating and powerfully moving.

2018 release from the old-soul honky-tonkers. Coming off the critical success of 2015's Mockingbird and the following year's jam-packed double-disc Live at WinStar World Casino and Resort, their fifth studio album is not only most ambitious effort to date, but it cohesively showcases the Austin-based band's display of irresistible, good-time spark and spirit of traditional country, classic rock sensibilities and sublime songwriting.