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

Rory McCleery talks to British composer Laurence Osborn, ahead of 'Laurence Osborn Day' at Wigmore Hall on 25 November 2023, at which we'll give the world premiere of Spare Parts. Laurence talks about his childhood and route into composing, musical influences from hip hop to rock, collaborators, silliness in classical music, and Pokémon.

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.

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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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