Podcasts about delphian

2:50:24 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: What’s in the box?, Birchwood Palace Industries, Corwood Industries, Jandek, fonts, Delphin, Delphian, Palatino, publications from Birchwood Palace Industries (Videoland: A Visual Catalog of American Video Store Logos, 1980-1995, Private Worlds: A Visual Catalog of Progressive Toy Designs, 1970-1990, Trust Me, I’m a Doctor: A […]

2:50:24 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: What’s in the box?, Birchwood Palace Industries, Corwood Industries, Jandek, fonts, Delphin, Delphian, Palatino, publications from Birchwood Palace Industries (Videoland: A Visual Catalog of American Video Store Logos, 1980-1995, Private Worlds: A Visual Catalog of Progressive Toy Designs, 1970-1990, Trust Me, I’m a Doctor: A […]

Benjamin Nicholas, Music Director of Merton College, Oxford joins Editor Martin Cullingford to talk about his new recording of Gabriel Jackson's The Christmas Story. This major new commission by the college, available now on the Delphian label, has been recorded by the Choir and Girl Choristers of Merton College and the Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia, and is an Editor's Choice in the latest edition of Gramophone.

Soprano and composer Héloïse Werner speaks to Gramophone Editor Martin Cullingford about her new album, ‘Close-ups', which features composers Barbara Strozzi, Julie Pinel and Hildegard of Bingen as well as compositions by Werner herself. Her second album sees her collaborating with fellow musicians Colin Alexander, Julian Azkoul, Max Baillie, Kit Downes, Ruth Gibson and Marianne Schofield.  ‘Close-ups' is out now on Delphian.  

This episode, hosted by Dr Ellie Woodacre, features another roundtable with members of the Henry on Tour project team--we discuss the progresses of Henry VIII and the big themes of the project including kingship & queenship, logistics, legacy and performance.About the project: This exciting three-year venture brings together a cross-disciplinary team of scholars and technical specialists from both the academic and heritage sectors to explore, evaluate and reconceptualise Henry VIII's progresses. Led by Historic Royal Palaces in collaboration with the Universities of York and Newcastle, the main research focus will be on the logistics of Henry's journeys around his realm and their performance as a spectacle, their significance in demonstrating kingship and queenship, and their legacy for the study and interpretation of the Tudors in schools and at heritage sites. The project will map Henry VIII's complete itinerary for the first time and the associated landscapes, the routes taken, the venues visited and the palaces, country houses and ecclesiastical institutions that accommodated the royal household. Henry VIII on Tour will thus be presenting new stories, posing and answering innovative research questions, and hopefully inspiring greater curiosity about local places and heritage sites. As well as contributing to our understanding of Henry VIII, his wives and court and the relationship with his people in historical terms, the project will be reflecting on what monarchy and visibility means to us in the 21st century.Check out their upcoming project events HERE.Guest Bios:Anthony Musson Project lead / Theme lead: logisticsHistoric Royal PalacesProfessor Anthony Musson joined Historic Royal Palaces in 2018 to lead and foster a distinctive vision for the charity's research into historic palaces, diverse communities, landscapes and collections. He is editor with JPD Cooper of Royal Journeys in Early Modern Europe (Routledge, 2022).Kate Giles Theme lead: legacyUniversity of YorkKate is a building historian and archaeologist with a particular interest in the study of late medieval and early modern communal and public buildings. As Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity & Culture, Kate works with national, regional and local organisations to find creative ways of sustaining and sharing their heritage with others.Kirsty Wright Post-Doctoral Research AssistantHistoric Royal PalacesMy research focuses on early modern architecture, politics and government. I completed my PhD at the University of York on the Exchequer of Receipt in the Palace of Westminster, which explored the relationship between institutional development and the architecture of the palace. Toby WardEnsemble Pro VictoriaFounded at Cambridge in 2015, EPV is a pioneer in combining high-level performance with the latest research. Under their director Toby Ward, EPV won joint-first prize at the London International Festival of Early Music Young Ensemble Competition (2020).  Their Gramophone award-nominated debut recording, Robert Fayrfax: Music for Tudor Kings and Queens, was released by Delphian in 2021. Their second album, Tudor Music Afterlives (Delphian, 2022) includes new polyphonic reconstructions. 

The British bass Brindley Sherratt has released his first solo album, ‘Fear No More', a Delphian recording, with Julius Drake at the piano. One of the UK's most distinguished singers, and with an international reputation on the great concert and operatic stages, Sherratt talks to James Jolly about this new, and belated, chapter in his musical career. This Gramophone Podcast is produced in association with Wigmore Hall.

Fali Pavri is the current Head of Keyboard at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. As well as being a sought-after teacher, his international career sees him performing as both soloist and chamber musician; premiering many new contemporary works by distinguished composers including Giles Swayne and Howard Skempton; recording for the Guild and Delphian labels and sitting on the jury of many international piano competitions. In this episode, Fali talks all things conservatoires, competitions, and teachers that live off their students' reputations. I also ask him how he came to end up touring with Rostropovich, and he recounts his rather unique encounter with Horowitz…Fali's links:Fali Pavri: official websiteRoyal Conservatoire of ScotlandThis episode was recorded in October 2023.-------------------Follow The Classical Circuit on InstagramDid you enjoy this episode? If so, ratings and reviews help a lot with visibility, if you have a spare moment... *bats eyelashes*No offence taken if not.--------------------This podcast is also available to listen to via The Violin Channel--------------------Music: François Couperin - Le Tic-Toc-Choc ou Les MaillotinsPerformed by Daniel Lebhardt--------------------The Classical Circuit is made by Ella Lee (radio music producer by trade, pianist at heart).-------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's an exciting first for Composing Myself this week, with this episode's guest holding a position in none other than The Royal Household of the United Kingdom. Judith Weir - Master of The King's Music (and former Master of The Queen's Music) – talks to Wise Music Group CEO Dave Holley and Creative Director Gill Graham about an illustrious life of creative adventure, from a fortuitous mentorship by Sir John Tavener to being appointed to a Royal position by Queen Elizabeth II. Stops along the way include the Battle of Stamford Bridge (“an iconic moment in English history”); how deadlines – “the composer's curse” – are actually a big help; Judith's inspiring work in the broader community; why singers are “the most amazing people in our profession”, and the myriad joys of blogging. A life less ordinary reflected on by a wonderfully eloquent composer.https://www.judithweir.com/Judith Weir (b 1954 to Scottish parents in Cambridge, England) studied composition with John Tavener, Robin Holloway and Gunther Schuller. On leaving Cambridge University in 1976 she taught in England and Scotland, and in the mid-1990s became Associate Composer with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and Artistic Director of Spitalfields Festival. She was a Visiting Professor at Princeton (2001) Harvard (2004) and Cardiff (2006-13) and in 2014 was appointed Master of the Queen's Music. Since Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II died in September 2022, Weir is now Master of The King's Music. From 2015 to 2019 she was Associate Composer to the BBC Singers.She is the composer of several operas (written for Kent Opera, Scottish Opera, ENO and Bregenz) which have been widely performed. She has written orchestral music for the BBC Symphony, Boston Symphony and Minnesota Orchestras. Much of her music has been recorded, and is available on the NMC, Delphian and Signum labels. She blogs about her cultural experiences at www.judithweir.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 2023 we mark the 400th anniversary of the deaths of two composers who wrote beautiful music, and who lived in extraordinary times. William Byrd (c.1540-1623) lived through a remarkably turbulent period of history, under no fewer than six monarchs. He wrote a huge amount of exquisite choral works, including Catholic masses which – depending who was on the throne – would only have been performed under conditions of secrecy.   Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623) was an organist and composer, best-known for his brilliant and vivid madrigals (as well as for his somewhat chaotic lifestyle). Music Opening and ending: ‘Kyrie' and ‘Agnus Dei' from Byrd's Mass for Four Voices. Performed by the Marian Consort, conducted by Rory McCleery from the album Singing in Secret (Delphian, 2020).During the podcast: Byrd's ‘Ave verum corpus'. Performed by the Choir of Merton College, Oxford conducted by Peter Philips from the album Viri Galilaei: Favourite Anthems from Merton (Delphian, 2016).With grateful thanks to Delphian for giving us permission to use these recordings.  

Rosalind Ventris's new album for Delphian, 'SOLA', finds her in the company of both contemporary and 20th century women composers who wrote solo repertoire for the viola. An album like this, showcasing works for solo viola written by women, is the first of its kind, taking us through the folk landscapes of Amanda Feery and Sally Beamish to Elisabeth Lutyens's defiant style and a beautiful solo suite by Imogen Holst. Hattie Butterworth caught up with Rosie in Foyles to learn more about the album and why she thinks it's important to advocate for this music. Credits: Mixing and mastering - Katy Ehrlich Photo of Rosalind - Oxford Atelier 

Helen Charlston has recorded her first entirely solo album for Delphian, for which she was joined by the theorbo player Toby Carr. 'Battle Cry: She Speaks' combines music of the 17th century with a new work written for her by Owain Park, 'Battle Cry', which gives the album its title. James Jolly caught up with her to talk about the album and find out about what's coming up from this much sought-after young singer. A BBC New Generation artist, Helen won First Prize in the 2018 Handel Singing Competition and was a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for 2017-19. Her first album for Delphian, mainly of duets with her soon-to-be-husband Michael Craddock, was 'The Isolation Songbook', warmly welcomed by Gramophone's Alexandra Coghlan who wrote that 'the results are varied, from comic miniatures to distilled dramas and contemplative outpourings, but together add up to a recital that's hard to resist, at once fresh and profoundly familiar'.

Helen Charlston and Toby Carr release 'Battle Cry' in May 2022 - available from 27th on Delphian records featuring songs by Barbara Strozzi, Henry Purcell, John Eccles, Claudio Monteverdi & Owain Park. To coincide with the release, both performers appear at the London Festival of Baroque at St John's Smith Square and the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. TICKETS: https://www.lfbm.org.uk/whats-on/helen-charlston-and-toby-carr

Ansambli The Hermes Experiment teisel heliplaadil kõlavad spetsiaalselt häälele, klarnetile, harfile ja kontrabassile loodud seaded juba muusikaajalukku kirjutatud teostest.

Today I talked to Christopher Clohessy about his book Angels Hastening: The Karbalāʾ Dreams (Gorgias Press, 2021), When, on an autumn Medina night in 61/680, the night that saw al-Ḥusayn killed, Umm Salama was torn from her sleep by an apparition of a long-dead Muḥammad, she slipped effortlessly into a progression of her co-religionists who, irrespective of status, gender or standing with God, were the recipients of dark and arresting visions. At the core of those Delphian dreams, peopled by angels or ğinn or esteemed forbears and textured with Iraqi dust and martyrs' blood, was the Karbalāʾ event. Her dream would be recounted by an array of Muslim scholars, from al-Tirmiḏī, stellar pupil of al-Buḫārī, and Ibn ʿAsākir, untiring chronicler of Syrian history, to bibliophile theologian Ibn Ṭāʾūs and Egyptian polymath al-Suyūṭī. But this was not Umm Salama's only otherworldly encounter and she was not the only one to have al-Ḥusayn's fate disturb her nights. This is their story. Adam Bobeck is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. His PhD is entitled “Object-Oriented Azadari: Shi'i Muslim Rituals and Ontology”. For more about his work, see www.adambobeck.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Today I talked to Christopher Clohessy about his book Angels Hastening: The Karbalāʾ Dreams (Gorgias Press, 2021), When, on an autumn Medina night in 61/680, the night that saw al-Ḥusayn killed, Umm Salama was torn from her sleep by an apparition of a long-dead Muḥammad, she slipped effortlessly into a progression of her co-religionists who, irrespective of status, gender or standing with God, were the recipients of dark and arresting visions. At the core of those Delphian dreams, peopled by angels or ğinn or esteemed forbears and textured with Iraqi dust and martyrs' blood, was the Karbalāʾ event. Her dream would be recounted by an array of Muslim scholars, from al-Tirmiḏī, stellar pupil of al-Buḫārī, and Ibn ʿAsākir, untiring chronicler of Syrian history, to bibliophile theologian Ibn Ṭāʾūs and Egyptian polymath al-Suyūṭī. But this was not Umm Salama's only otherworldly encounter and she was not the only one to have al-Ḥusayn's fate disturb her nights. This is their story. Adam Bobeck is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. His PhD is entitled “Object-Oriented Azadari: Shi'i Muslim Rituals and Ontology”. For more about his work, see www.adambobeck.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/islamic-studies

Today I talked to Christopher Clohessy about his book Angels Hastening: The Karbalāʾ Dreams (Gorgias Press, 2021), When, on an autumn Medina night in 61/680, the night that saw al-Ḥusayn killed, Umm Salama was torn from her sleep by an apparition of a long-dead Muḥammad, she slipped effortlessly into a progression of her co-religionists who, irrespective of status, gender or standing with God, were the recipients of dark and arresting visions. At the core of those Delphian dreams, peopled by angels or ğinn or esteemed forbears and textured with Iraqi dust and martyrs' blood, was the Karbalāʾ event. Her dream would be recounted by an array of Muslim scholars, from al-Tirmiḏī, stellar pupil of al-Buḫārī, and Ibn ʿAsākir, untiring chronicler of Syrian history, to bibliophile theologian Ibn Ṭāʾūs and Egyptian polymath al-Suyūṭī. But this was not Umm Salama's only otherworldly encounter and she was not the only one to have al-Ḥusayn's fate disturb her nights. This is their story. Adam Bobeck is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. His PhD is entitled “Object-Oriented Azadari: Shi'i Muslim Rituals and Ontology”. For more about his work, see www.adambobeck.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Today I talked to Christopher Clohessy about his book Angels Hastening: The Karbalāʾ Dreams (Gorgias Press, 2021), When, on an autumn Medina night in 61/680, the night that saw al-Ḥusayn killed, Umm Salama was torn from her sleep by an apparition of a long-dead Muḥammad, she slipped effortlessly into a progression of her co-religionists who, irrespective of status, gender or standing with God, were the recipients of dark and arresting visions. At the core of those Delphian dreams, peopled by angels or ğinn or esteemed forbears and textured with Iraqi dust and martyrs' blood, was the Karbalāʾ event. Her dream would be recounted by an array of Muslim scholars, from al-Tirmiḏī, stellar pupil of al-Buḫārī, and Ibn ʿAsākir, untiring chronicler of Syrian history, to bibliophile theologian Ibn Ṭāʾūs and Egyptian polymath al-Suyūṭī. But this was not Umm Salama's only otherworldly encounter and she was not the only one to have al-Ḥusayn's fate disturb her nights. This is their story. Adam Bobeck is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. His PhD is entitled “Object-Oriented Azadari: Shi'i Muslim Rituals and Ontology”. For more about his work, see www.adambobeck.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

Today I talked to Christopher Clohessy about his book Angels Hastening: The Karbalāʾ Dreams (Gorgias Press, 2021), When, on an autumn Medina night in 61/680, the night that saw al-Ḥusayn killed, Umm Salama was torn from her sleep by an apparition of a long-dead Muḥammad, she slipped effortlessly into a progression of her co-religionists who, irrespective of status, gender or standing with God, were the recipients of dark and arresting visions. At the core of those Delphian dreams, peopled by angels or ğinn or esteemed forbears and textured with Iraqi dust and martyrs' blood, was the Karbalāʾ event. Her dream would be recounted by an array of Muslim scholars, from al-Tirmiḏī, stellar pupil of al-Buḫārī, and Ibn ʿAsākir, untiring chronicler of Syrian history, to bibliophile theologian Ibn Ṭāʾūs and Egyptian polymath al-Suyūṭī. But this was not Umm Salama's only otherworldly encounter and she was not the only one to have al-Ḥusayn's fate disturb her nights. This is their story. Adam Bobeck is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. His PhD is entitled “Object-Oriented Azadari: Shi'i Muslim Rituals and Ontology”. For more about his work, see www.adambobeck.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Halloween! The most wonderful time of the year is upon us! We've had another awesome October and it culminates now. The legendary Misfits are the quintessential Halloween band. And our Halloween weekend is being kicked off by catching a Misfits tribute act. Psycho 78 is a band of local "misfits" from a number of local punk bands. So we sat down with Evan, William, Scott, and Drew to talk their love of the Misfits as well as the pro and cons of tribute acts. In our "News, Views, and Tunes", we discuss our own Misfits experiences and hit a local record con! Musically, we crank new and used from Armored Saint, Hirax, Evil Damn and introduce LA metallers Delphian in our "Indie Spotlight". Horns Up and Stay Healthy!! This Episode is sponsored by Trve Kvlt Coffee. Summon the coffee demons to possess yourself a cup today! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.  

Leah and Mike welcome back Julian Wain, who appeared with his wife Katherine in Episode 49. This time they discuss the Delphian schools -- Julian both attended and taught there. These, like other "Applied Scholastics" schools use Hubbard "technology" to indoctrinate kids and act as recruitment pools for the Sea Org, despite the public claims they make. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Leah and Mike welcome back Julian Wain, who appeared with his wife Katherine in Episode 49. This time they discuss the Delphian schools -- Julian both attended and taught there. These, like other "Applied Scholastics" schools use Hubbard "technology" to indoctrinate kids and act as recruitment pools for the Sea Org, despite the public claims they make. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Raymond Yiu's music is featured on a new Delphian album featuring performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under David Robertson, Sir Andrew Davis and Edward Gardner. In this Gramophone Podcast, James Jolly talks to him about the inspiration and evolution of the three works, The London Citizen Exceedingly Injured, which takes its title from an early 18th-century pamphlet; Yiu's Symphony, a 2015 BBC Proms commission, and The World Was Once All Miracle, commissioned to commemorate the centenary of the author and composer Anthony Burgess.

A whole 8 Months since my last upload (oops) It has given me some time though to work on content to keep my going for a while in 2021 This is my first book review with hopefully more to come If you are interested in this book you can find it at: https://shop.delphiangallery.com/products/navigating-the-art-world If you like this type of content check out my other content at Website: www.harleybainbridge.com Twitter: @hbainbridge Insta: @harleybainbridge --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/harleybainbridge/message

Tom Service takes on the largest instrument created by human hands: the organ. With the help of organist Anna Lapwood, Tom asks: what makes the organ so mighty? Why has it fascinated musicians from Bach to Procol Harum? Along the way, Tom will delve into the Delphian roots of the organ and we'll hear what its ancestor the Hydraulis sounded like, created in ancient Egypt. And we'll drop in on Madison Square Garden where Gladys Gooding entertained huge audiences at sports events for over thirty years, starting in the 1930s. Finally, we'll hear what makes the organ timeless and immortal in music by John Cage and Olivier Messiaen. All hail: the organ!

Paul Thomas is joined by guitarist, broadcaster and concert organiser Tom McKinney for a wide-ranging conversation about contemporary music. As well as discussing some recent new releases the discussion touches upon performances in unconventional venues and the art of commissioning new works.www.prestomusic.comThe music discussed in the show:Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76 Nos. 1 - 3Chiaroscuro QuartetBIS - BIS2348https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8777472--haydn-string-quartets-op-76-nos-1-3Vienne 1900 – Music by Mahler, Zemlinsky, Berg & SchoenbergEric Le Sage (piano), Zvi Plesser (cello), Daishin Kashimoto (violin), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Emmanuel Pahud (flute)ALPHA - ALPHA588https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8789365--vienne-1900Here We AreHéloïse Werner (soprano); The Hermes ExperimentDelphian - DCD34244https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8794320--here-we-areMessiaen: Quartet for the End of Time & Catlin Smith: Among the Tarnished StarsAnton Lukoszevieze (piano), Mira Benjamin (violin), Heather Roche (clarinet) & Philip Thomas (piano)Another Timbre - AT143https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8623053--messiaen-quartet-for-the-end-of-time-catlin-smith-among-the-tarnished-starsMorton Feldman PianoPhilip Thomas (piano)Another Timbre – AT144https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8676745--morton-feldman-pianoSpilled Out From TanglesJuliet Fraser (soprano)Huddersfield Contemporary Records - HCR23CDhttps://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8768008--spilled-out-from-tanglesMessiaen: Catalogue d'oiseaux Books 1-7Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)PENTATONE - PTC5186670https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8404435--messiaen-catalogue-doiseaux-books-1-7

We discuss: The Print Space, The benefits of not having a permanent gallery space, Working with young and emerging artists, Being and artist and a gallerist, Using social media effectively, How to engage with galleries, their new book Navigating The Art World - Professional Practice For The Early Career Artist, #LockdownEditions, Storing art work, Online art sales, Selling artwork online, Treating your art career as a business, Teaching art business at university, Professional practices in the arts, The benefits of being an assistant https://delphiangallery.com http://www.nickjsthompson.com http://www.benjaminmurphy.info   Please be sure to visit our Patreon page and help support the podcast by being part of the conversation. The more money raised, the larger the global reach we can offer you: https://www.patreon.com/thewisefool For more information about the host, Matthew Dols http://www.matthewdols.com

We discuss: The Print Space, The benefits of not having a permanent gallery space, Working with young and emerging artists, Being and artist and a gallerist, Using social media effectively, How to engage with galleries, their new book Navigating The Art World - Professional Practice For The Early Career Artist, #LockdownEditions, Storing art work, Online art sales, Selling artwork online, Treating your art career as a business, Teaching art business at university, Professional practices in the arts, The benefits of being an assistant https://delphiangallery.com http://www.nickjsthompson.com http://www.benjaminmurphy.info   Please be sure to visit our Patreon page and help support the podcast by being part of the conversation. The more money raised, the larger the global reach we can offer you: https://www.patreon.com/thewisefool For more information about the host, Matthew Dols http://www.matthewdols.com

MAX & Friends with Max Tucci Season 12 / Episode 6 Guest: Lauren Lawrence Author of 'Private Dreams of Public People', / TV Host / Dream Decoder / Dream ExpertTopic: Lauren Lawrence will be decoding callers dreams and explaining why many of us are having crazy, unexplainable dreams during this time.Questions:Have you been having crazy, wild, unexplainable, reoccurring dreams?Do you want to know what your psyche is trying to tell you?If you said YES! To the above questions then tune in!About the book:For the first time, public figures like @madonna #MichaelDouglas, #OliverStone #CandaceBushnell #KelseyGrammer, #chriskattan #LucianoPavarotti #paulmccartney #juliettebinoche and a host of others confess their intimate dreams.Dream expert Lauren Lawrence dissects these dreams, giving us unprecedented insight into celebrities' deepest thoughts and what makes them shine.From ancient times of Delphian oracles to present day psychoanalysis, dreams have always captivated, inspired and fascinated us. What secrets do we unlock when we close our eyes? We are in a constant search for meaning in our dreams, hoping to discover the mysteries of our unconscious.#PrivateDreamsOfPublicPeople published by Assouline approaches the dream like never before, focusing on celebrity dreamers, and the expression of talent inherent within their nighttime journeys.#dreams #crazydreams #dream #dreamdecoder #dreamexpert #laurenlawrence #assouline #celebritydreams #celebrity #maxtucci #radio #talkradio #interview #latalkradio #tellyawards #CommunicatorAward #host #podcast #tunein #podcastmovement

Our guest on the Delphian Podcast for this episode is longtime friend and Delphian collaborator Wingshan Smith. Wingshan is an artist, curator, and educator based in Nottingham and Hong Kong. She is Youth Programmer at Nottingham Contemporary as well as having her own practice in performance-based art. We discuss the role of art in the community and striking a balance between working in curation and personal practice. We also talk about the importance of looking at networking in a different way, not as a chore, but as a genuine way of meeting friends and building a community. 

A puzzle that may baffle the inquiring mind is how a college dropout, a computer nerd without any notable biological or medical background, and at one time the wealthiest person in the world before being unseated by the self-centered playboy Jeff Bezos, could rise to become one of humanity's leading spokespersons about vaccination. After transitioning away from Microsoft to work full time for his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2006, funding vaccine development and agricultural genetic engineering seems to have turned into one of Bill Gates' deeper passion. in the past, he has been a public protector of Monsanto's chemical-dependent GMOs and continues to promote the agro-chemical paradigm throughout the developing world. Although there is nothing wrong with philanthropic enterprises for causes we believe in, what is disturbing is that a non-medical expert has assumed the role of being a national thought leader on vaccination safety and policy. What people do is less important than their motivations and intentions.  Personality- wise, it is no secret that Gates was a difficult boss to work with. He was known to be extremely critical, belligerent, sarcastic and his anger would often degrade employees. He was a fierce taskmaster as the Washington Post reported, and Fortune magazine listed him as an "egotistical jerk" along with other billionaires such Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos.  Now with COVID-19 upon us, some, such as NPR, would call Gates prophetic for warning about viral pandemics five years ago. However, there is nothing extraordinarily novel, and definitely not Delphian, in this pronouncement. Gates is certainly no oracle. As personal experience confirms, such conversations among scientists have gone on in the corridors and cafeterias of biotech firms for over three decades. More likely is Gates simply fear mongering to turn his enormous investments into vaccine research and development for a coronavirus vaccine with the outcome being greater profits? To call Gates a vaccine and genetic engineering fanatic is an understatement. While lecturing at the elitist TED 2010 conference in Long Beach, CA, he slipped a statement while speaking about the dangers of climate change and over population: “Vaccines? I love them.” His admission was made in the context of his philanthropic strategy and vaccines play a crucial role in his firm conviction that population reduction is an urgent priority for the survival of humanity. Of course the question that arises is who should be eliminated from the population? And who is elected from the public to make such decisions? The short answer is no one. Nevertheless this agenda is covertly proceeding through foundations, international agencies, non-profits, and private industry. In 2000, the Gates Foundation founded the International Finance Facility for Immunization (GAVI) and that organization's Global Fund for Children's Vaccines. GAVI is a global collaboration that includes governments health ministries, the Rockefeller Foundation, the World Bank, WHO, the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, UNICEF, corporate vaccine makers, and other influential entities. All of these are zealot vaccination promoters. One of the organization's goals is to vaccinate every child in Africa. In 2019, GAVI reported having reached over 960 million campaign immunizations in developing countries.  In his deconstruction of Bill Gates' charitable agenda, F. William Engdahl writes, “Vaccinating a child who then goes to drink feces-polluted river water is hardly healthy in any respect. But of course cleaning up the water and sewage systems of Africa would revolutionize the health conditions of the Continent.” Far more effective would be the Foundation donating its billions to improve sanitation and hygiene, and provide nutrition to the 2.6 billion people who have little to none, for increasing clean water sources so 900 million global residents can have access to drinkable water (now at 1 in 3 Africans). Instead, the Foundation could be funding thousands of health clinics focusing on the chronic illnesses these populations suffer from most. This is simply common sense. “Bad water,” says the Stockholm International Water Institute's director, Anders Bentell, “kills more people than HIV, malaria and war together.”  And globally, contaminated water, which kills approximately 9 million people annually, is a far more serious crisis than the evidence now indicates for coronavirus.  Over the past several years, the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet has printed a series of in-depth analyses of the Gates Foundation with disturbing revelations. In a September 2008 article, “Misfinancing Global Health: A Case for Transparency in Disbursements and Decision Making,” the authors' investigation came to the conclusion that aside from excessive funding of high profile Western institutions and organizations, there was “a heavy bias in funding towards malaria and HIV/AIDS, with relatively little investment into tuberculosis, maternal and child health, and nutrition–with chronic diseases being entirely absent from its spending portfolio.” And a later study by Dr. David McCoy from the Center for International Health found that “the grants made by the Foundation do not reflect the burden of disease endured by those in deepest poverty.” None of these findings have been covered to any extent by mainstream media nor any governing body. Seemingly Gates is riding on the coat tails of the COVID-19 panic that has infected much of the global community, when in fact, some analyses, such as one recently out of Stanford, indicate that the danger is likely over exaggerated. Earlier this month, Gates announced he would be spending billions of dollars to fund seven separate coronavirus vaccine development initiatives. As a result, his Foundation has emerged as perhaps the foremost leader in the vaccine industry's response to the pandemic. Gates has gained free entrance into the offices and boardrooms of all the leading players savoring the opportunity to launch a fast-tracked coronavirus vaccine that may likely be made mandatory for Americans, including National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Disease director Anthony Fauci, the CDC's vaccine advisory committee and the WHO. Thus far, Gates has shown reservation against a hasty launch of a vaccine that will likely not have been reviewed long enough to determine its safety and efficacy in long-term immunity. During a White House press conference with Trump, Fauci indicated a vaccine might take a year or two before approval. The anti-science Trump replied he would prefer it were a couple months. There is a strong possibility that like the influenza vaccine, immunity will wane quickly. We may recall that Fauci aggressively pushed for fast-tracking the H1N1 flu vaccine during the swine flu epidemic that never appeared as predicted. He was called out on this failure by Senator Tom Coburn for advocating a vaccine found to be only 30% effective in trials conducted in Thailand. Recent studies out of Shanghai already show that 30 percent of those who contract a wild COVID-19 virus show only minor or no neutralizing antibodies. And South Korea is now reporting cases of individuals getting infected with COVID-19 a second time. Other seasonal coronaviruses, which are only mild common colds, return repeatedly and indicate infection triggers only short temporary immune responses and even then not in everyone. However, not all leading vaccine advocates are on board with rushing a vaccine. During a Philadelphia Inquirer interview with rotavirus vaccine inventor Dr. Paul Offit at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Offit warned against efforts being made to get a vaccine on the market as swiftly as possible. This is a virus, according to Offit, that we still know very little about. He stated, "If you're going to be testing this in otherwise healthy people who are very, very unlikely to die from this infection, you better make sure it's safe." He offers the example of the poorly developed dengue vaccine that was tested in Latin America and the Philippines and found to increase the risk of dengue shock syndrome. The same could happen with a COVID-19.  Peter Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor University, developed a vaccine against SARS in 2016 before money dried up. Yet in a recent appearance before Congress, he testified a coronavirus vaccine could have a "unique potential safety problem."  We should be warned that questions would remain if and whether Hotez's team were to get a vaccine into advanced trials. An earlier University of Texas effort to develop a vaccine against the SARS coronavirus was appalling. Despite inducing neutralizing antibodies, all the mice in the trial exhibited immunopathological events in the lungs. More recently, a global analytics firm, Clarivate, investigated two COVID19 vaccines in the pipeline that have reached later clinical trials. Their report estimates that it will require over 5 years for developing a safe vaccine and it will likely be only 5 percent effective. In other words, it is an enormous waste of funding.  Gates, on the other hand, seems to be ignoring these warnings from persons who have devoted their lives to vaccine development. He is stubbornly determined, irrespective of money spent, to get a COVID19 vaccine onto the market. A question that arises in our minds is how concerned Gates might be of vaccine safety issues. If the past is any indication of his priorities, it appears his focus is to increase vaccine compliance while ignoring the high incidence of serious adverse events and deaths. Bobby Kennedy Jr. at the Children's Health Defense organization has listed some of the vaccination debacles that are directly associated with his Foundation: In 2002, operatives in the Gates network enforced a meningitis campaign in Sub-Sahara Africa that paralyzed up to 500 children. In 2010, his foundations support for Glaxo's experimental malaria vaccine trials killed 151 African infants and seriously injured another 1,000.  Gates collaboration with India's National Technical Advisory Group resulted in a catastrophe of unmonitored overlapping polio immunization programs triggering an epidemic of non-polio acute flaccid paralysis that affected 490,000 children. Gates vaccine programs were forced to leave India. Cases of vaccine derived polio now outnumber cases from wild polio.  In 2014, Foundation funds went to experimental HPV vaccine trials in India, in joint collaboration with Glaxo and Merck, that violated ethical standards. Over 1,000 girls developed severe autoimmune diseases and fertility disorders.  It is easy to overlook the larger significance of the results Gates' vaccination campaigns. In short, Gates was responsible for implementing and funding these programs that injured and caused the deaths of innocent children and adults. Due to his stature among governmental and international health agencies, he has not been held accountable. People such as Gates are judged by a different standard, meaning they are not judged at all. Equally worrisome, aside from his vaccine frenzy, Gates makes efforts to influence the nation's health policies. In the past he has been a fanatical advocate for mandatory vaccination.  During a recent TED Talk interview, Gates advocated a national campaign to issue certificates for those who have been either infected with COVID-19 or vaccinated against it. "Eventually what we'll have to have is certificates of who's a recovered person and who's a vaccinated person," he stated, "because you don't want people moving around the world... (without their certificates)." Gates however is a symptom of another side of national crisis. There would be no need for citizen billionaires to be taking the helm to manipulate national policy responses to health crises, such as the COVC-19 pandemic, if there was in place a functioning healthcare system. Unfortunately it has been the gross failures of the Trump and previous presidential administrations that have opened the doors for others like Gates to step in. For too long, the US's federal health agencies have been thoroughly compromised and corrupted by private pharmaceutical interests. The pandemic is revealing to Americans that we have the most dysfunctional medical system in the developed world.  Unfortunately the wealthiest elite on the planet are rarely questioned about the correctness of their actions and schemes. As long as a Bill Gates says he is giving huge sums of money to a cause to end disease and suffering, we are not suppose to probe further. Rather, in the case of mainstream media, such people are to be worshiped as saviors. The oligarchic elite are so well interconnected on multiple boards of directors, clubs for the rich and powerful, think tanks, media conglomerates, and among the high ranks of elected legislators and politicians that it is difficult to have an open and honest debate on the merits of their actions and spending.  So when someone like Ted Turner says we should reduce the world's population by more than half, and Bill Gates suggests a 15 percent reduction, do we fully understand the potential for eugenic efforts?  And this is another issue about Gates that should disturb every person on the planet.  As a keynote speaker at the TED 2010 conference, Gates laid out his rationale for an international effort towards global depopulation. He said, “If we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that [projected to be 9 billion people by 2050] by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.“ Therefore it was shocking to learn that a tetanus vaccine administered to Kenyan women in child bearing years was purportedly laced with Human Chorionic Gondatropin (hCG) that causes miscarriage and renders a woman sterile. The discovery was made by the Kenyan Catholic Doctors Association that noted something was seriously wrong with women following vaccination and had the vaccine analyzed. But more appalling was tracing the vaccination campaign to funding by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for distribution by UNICEF. Further evidence is found in a 2005 Foundation press release stating Gates' gift of $26 million to UNICEF for a vaccine to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus. Curiously, Brian Shilhavy at Health Impact News observed, "there was no outbreak of tetanus in Kenya, on the perceived threat of tetanus due to local flood conditions." Therefore, why the campaign to vaccinate young women en masse? In conclusion, we have the world's second richest billionaire who deeply believes he has a personal authority to be a policy maker for America's public health. Therefore, do we truly realize the dangers of billionaires, unelected to any position of authority over the nation, and their threats that undermine democracy?  

This time we're joined by Ben Murphy and Nick Thompson of Delphian and Gallery and artist Lucia Ferrari. Delphian is a nomadic gallery, founded in 2017, with a focus on pioneering emerging contemporary art. Their hugely popular open call, which happens annually, has gained them a huge online following and given them the wherewithal to support the winners as well as runners up. We talk to them about Delphian's recent Lockdown Editions, which Lucia is part of, as well as being an entry to this years open call. The editions are a series of prints, released by Delphian with, 100% of the profits going to the artists in hope they can help them through this turbulent time. We also speak to them about how they're keeping busy during the lockdown and also what the most significant changes to there practices have been.

In this second special edition episode of the Delphian Podcast, Delphian director Nick JS Thompson interviews Delphian director Benjamin Murphy. We talk about his work, journey in the art world, and advice for young artists just starting out. We also delve into the topic of freedom within your work and the importance of experimentation to keep you inspired and work fresh. 

Benjamin Murphy is a visual artist, writer and co-director of Delphian Gallery. Based in London, he is known to create artworks using the esoteric medium of electrical tape. Innocence, fragility, obscenity, beauty, despair, chaos, love, vanity, and vice are all frequently occurring themes. . . Recent shows for Benjamin have included: Vile Oblivion – Creat Gallery (Helsinki) 2016 Gilded Chaos – Beers Contemporary (London) 2016 Innocence Is A Thing Of Which We Know Nothing – Great Eastern Bear Gallery (London) 2013 Abandon All Hope – Hoxton Gallery (London) 2012 . . Delphian Gallery is an artist run, nomadic gallery and arts platform that they launched in 2017. Primarily London based, they aim to show the most captivating and challenging work by emerging and early-career contemporary artists. They also often endeavour to give a platform to artists that aren’t regularly shown in London . . Past exhibitions have included shows from Florence Hutchings, Jordy Kerwick and Bertrand Fournier, as well as large-scale group exhibitions. And In 2018 they launched their inaugural annual open call competition which was entirely free-to-enter. This year’s competition attracted over 10,000 entries from all around the world . . As well as the gallery, Delphian also produce the Delphian Podcast, Delphian Magazine, and host free talks and panel discussions for early-career artists. . . You can get in touch with us with opinions and suggestions at: Email - tothestudio@gmail.com Instagram - instagram.com/tothestudio Facebook - facebook.com/tothestudiopodcast . . This podcast features an edited version of the song "RSPN" by Blank & Kytt, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blank__Kytt/Heavy_Crazy_Serious/Blank__Kytt_-_Heavy_Crazy_Serious_-_08_RSPN

Episode 9 is a special one, a very different sound to usual - so you're in for a treat. We joined the guys from the Delphian, ArtProof and Mizog podcasts to discuss art, our backgrounds and share some industry insights. It's a fun introduction to a larger world of art podcasts, so delve right in: The Delphian Podcast: @delphiangallery on InstagramArtProof Podcast: @artproofpodcast on InstagramMizog Podcast: @mizogart on Instagram

Special Christmas edition of the ART PROOF podcast with with Delphian Gallery, Artfully and Mizog Podcasts.

In this episode The Mizog Art Podcast joins the Artfully Podcast, the Art Proof Podcast and Delphian Podcast for an end of year Christmas Podcast Crossover.  We each explain the format of our podcasts as well as how and why we started them, giving each of our listeners a wider range of Art Podcast options. We discuss our dream guests, art world fraudsters, damaging artwork and [Delphian’s Killer Question] one piece of advice we’d give to an early career artist.   Please subscribe to the following art podcasts: Artfully Podcast (@artfullypodcast) Art Proof Podcast (@artproofpodcast) Delphian Podcast (@Delphiangallery) Ministry of Arts Podcast (@ministryofartsorg)     For full line up of confirmed artists go to https://www.mizogart.com Email: info@mizorg.com Social Media: @ministryofartsorg

It's December, nearly the end of the year and we're in a reflective mood. We take a moment to think of what art we'd like to unwrap on Christmas Day, and ponder our New Year art resolutions. Back to 2019, our gallery visits took us to Bridget Riley at the Hayward Gallery, the Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, and the End of Year show at The Royal Drawing School.It's been a big month of news for the art world, what with the Turner Prize nominees sharing the final prize, which of course we had to discuss. And one of the artists we've previously mentioned, Tal R, has been to court to try and stop his artwork being cut up to make watches. Yes we know, it's a bonkers story. And, Liz wouldn't let us finish the year without discussing ‘unseen' artist Eric Tucker. We all need some feel good stories after all!Our Artist Focus this episode is French-American artist Louise Bourgeois. Jessie enjoyed a 1989 feisty video interview with the artist and Tate Modern Director, Frances Morris, and we're struck by the multiple similarities between Bourgeois and Yayoi Kusama. Finally, a big MERRY CHRISTMAS to our listeners, and remember to look out for us once more before the end of the year: we have a Christmas Special podcast that comes out on 23rd December, where we sit down with fellow podcasters: Art Proof, Delphian and Mizog. It'll be a Christmas Mash Up!SHOW NOTESMollie Barnes: @mollieebarnes Art Proof podcast: @artproofpodcast Delphian podcast: @delphiangalleryMizog podcast: @mizogartBridget Riley at the Hayward Gallery, until 26 January 2020: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/hayward-gallery-art/bridget-riley Olafur Eliasson ‘In Real Life' at Tate Modern, until 5 January 2020: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/olafur-eliasson Delphian Gallery x Guts Gallery: https://delphiangallery.com/portfolio/delphian-x-guts/ Richard Woods ‘Door and Window Paintings' at Albion Barn, by appointment only: http://www.albionbarn.com/currentexhibitions.php Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery until 6 February 2020: https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/taylor-wessing-photographic-portrait-prize-2019/exhibition/ Snezhana von Buedingen: @snezhana_von_buedingen End of Year Exhibition at the Royal Drawing School, until 15 January 2020: https://www.royaldrawingschool.org/exhibitions/drawing-year-2019-end-year-exhibition-gallery/ Turner prize awarded four ways after artists' plea to the judges: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/dec/03/turner-prize-2019-lawrence-abu-hamdan-helen-cammock-oscar-murillo-and-tai-shani-shared Are award winners and losers going out of fashion? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50651827 Danish artist seeks to stop his work being cut up to make watches: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/02/danish-artist-tal-r-paris-chic-watches Eric Tucker: exhibition fulfils ‘unseen' artist's final wish: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50500885 Louise Bourgeois Tate Shot: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/louise-bourgeois-2351/louise-bourgeois-transform-hate-love Louise Bourgeois and Pablo Picasso ‘Anatomies of Desire' at Hauser and Wirth: https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/24525-louise-bourgeois-pablo-picasso-anatomies-desire ‘This Be The Verse' by Philip Larkin: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-verse

We sit down with long time Delphian friend and Beers London artist Andrew Salgado at his London studio. Andrew, a Canadian painter has been based in London for a long time now and we and discuss social media, politics and theory in art as well as consistency in an artists output.

In this episode Delphian are in downtown LA at Andy Dixon's studio. Andy, a Canadian painter, now based in LA talks about growing up in Vancouver, his background in music and DIY bands and how that led him into the art world. 

In this episode, Tim sits down with Mark Siegel, Assistant Headmaster at the Delphian School in Oregon, to discuss the success behind the school's approach with proficiency-based education. This has helped shape their students' experience when learning the material in school. It has also transformed the traditional grading system by ensuring students are mastering the skills they are learning to be successful in the future. Listen to this podcast and learn more about this approach in this blog. ​ More about Mark: Mark Siegel, JD, is Assistant Headmaster at the Delphian School (delphian.org), Oregon’s premier international day and boarding school in Sheridan, Oregon. Mark has held many different positions since helping start the school in 1974. He was born in Boston, went to school in southern California and graduated from California State University, Fullerton. He attended UC Davis School of Law and moved to Oregon in 1974 to help found the Delphian School. He has headed the Oregon Federation of Independent Schools since 1989, and he is now serving his 24th year on the board of the Council for American Private Education. He’s served on Oregon State Board of Ed and the Oregon Department of Ed Task Forces, and he serves on the Department’s Private School Partnership Committee. He travels the country speaking to educators and parents as an advocate for private education and for proficiency-based education. He wants to see all schools shift from the factory-model to more personalized, student-centered approaches. He works with public and private schools to help them in that transition. He is also very active in the business community and has chaired the McMinnville Area Chamber of Commerce. He takes about 30 students on 10-day business seminar field trips to the east or west coast each year.

The director of the Marian Consort tells Editor Martin Cullingford about Music for the Queen of Heaven, the ensemble's disc of modern Marian motets, released by Delphian.

Sean Shibe, a real rising star of the guitar world, has just released his first disc, called 'Dreams and Fancies' on the Delphian label - and we've named it an Editor's Choice recording in the September 2017 issue of Gramophone. In this Gramophone podcast he talks to Editor Martin Cullingford about English music for guitar, about Julian Bream, and about the unique appeal of the instrument and its repertoire.

For their latest album on Delphian, called ‘Set upon the rood', the Choir of Gonville and Caius, Cambridge invited contemporary composers to write works for ancient instruments. The college's music director Geoffrey Webber tells Editor Martin Cullingford about the project.

Pianist Iain Burnside talks about recording Rachmaninov's complete songs for Delphian Records

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers from "Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale, Vol. 1" (Coro) Buy at iTunes Music Store More On This Album Without doubt, Monteverdi was the greatest of the early baroque European composers. He revolutionized the music of the theater and the church by his dramatic and imaginative use of voices and instruments and by his daring harmonies and rhythms. Next to his Vespers of 1610, the Selva morale e spiritual of 1641 is his most significant and virtuosic collection of sacred music. Over the next few years we intend to record the complete publication with a variety of forces. His much performed Beatus vir is a mere appetizer for this delightful yet thrilling music.BYU Men's Chorus "Goin' Home" (mp3) from "The Pilgrim's Journey Home" (Tantara Records) Buy at iTunes Music Store More On This AlbumLift your spirits with a brand-new collection of inspirational folk hymns and songs. Although life may be difficult, the youthful and energetic voices of the BYU Combined Choirs and Orchestra will inspire and strengthen you on your own journey home.Florilegium & Arakaendar Bolivia Choir, Ashley Solomon "Fuera, Fuera! Haganles Lugar!" (mp3) from "Bolivian Baroque Vol. 3" (Channel Classics Records) Buy at Napster Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at Amazon MP3 More On This Album Welcome to our third volume of Bolivian Baroque music which was, unusually, recorded in three different venues, in two different countries almost 6250 miles apart. This time the majority of the CD was recorded in Holland (in both the Waalse Kerk in Amsterdam and the Doopsgezinde Kerk in Deventer) during Arakaendar Bolivia Choirís first tour of Europe with Florilegium in 2008. In addition we have included a number of solo organ pieces from the Bolivian archives which James Johnstone recorded on the restored anonymous 18th century Blockwerk organ in the Mission Church of Santa Ana de Velasco. This is the first European recording on this remarkable instrument, its raw sound recorded here for posterity. The music on this volume differs considerably from the other two Channel Classics recordings (CCS 22105 & CCS 24806) as it mainly showcases Arakaendar Bolivia, the choir I set up in 2005. They continue to thrive and have shown tremendous commitment and determination in preparing this challenging and varied programme. We were delighted to be nominated by BBC Music Magazine for the best choir recording of 2008 for our last CD recording, as well as receiving our 5th Editorís Choice from Gramophone magazine. I hope this new volume is received as warmly.The Choir of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, Duncan Ferguson "Leroy Kyrie" (mp3) from "John Taverner: Sacred Choral Music" (Delphian Records) Buy at Napster Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at Amazon MP3 More On This Album John Taverner brought the English florid style to its culmination and final flowering; his music is quite unlike anything written by his continental contemporaries and, viewed retrospectively, represents not only the culmination of one period but also the beginning of something new. In his debut recording with the critically acclaimed Edinburgh choir, Duncan Ferguson presents this music with forces akin to those of the sixteenth century ñ a small group of children and a larger number of men. The singers respond with their characteristic freshness, and an emotional authenticity born of the daily round of liturgical performance.Johann Sabastian Bach: MotetsVocalconsort Berlin, Marcus Creed from "Johann Sebastian Bach: Motets" (Harmonia Mundi) More On This Album Album will be availble online around March 22, 2011 The Vocalconsort Berlin was founded in 2003 and made its debut the same year in Monteverdi's LíOrfeo under the direction of RenÈ Jacobs at the Innsbruck Festival. The ensemble specialises in early and high Baroque repertoire, but also interprets Romantic and contemporary music. The Vocalconsort¥s composition can range from quartet to polychoral formations, including also solo performances. It sings both in concert and in operatic and theatrical productions. Under the direction of Marcus Creed, RenÈ Jacobs, Jos van Immerseel and Ottavio Dantone, the ensemble has worked with the Akademie f¸r Alte Musik Berlin and the Accademia Bizantina. With the Akademie f¸r Alte Musik Berlin, it has participated since 2006 in the projects of Sasha Waltz & Guests at Radialsystem V, the new venue for interaction of the arts on the Spree. Marcus Creed, artistic director of the SWR Vokalensemble (South West German Radio Choir) since 2003, studied at Kingís College Cambridge, Christ Church Oxford, and at the Guildhall School of Music in London. From 1977 to 1998 he lived in Berlin, where he was chorusmaster at the Deutsche Oper, taught lied interpretation at the Hochschule der K¸nste, and worked as pianist and conductor with the Gruppe Neue Musik and the Scharoun Ensemble. From 1987 he was artistic director of the RIAS Kammerchor, being awarded many international prizes for his recordings. He has formed close working relationships with the Akademie f¸r Alte Musik Berlin, the Freiburger Barockorchester and Concerto Kˆln, and has appeared at festivals in Berlin, Vienna, Salzburg, Montreux, Edinburgh, Lucerne, Innsbruck, Donaueschingen, Strasbourg, and Gˆttingen. He was appointed Professor of Choral Conducting at the Hochschule f¸r Musik in Cologne in 1998. His recordings of works by Bruckner, Ives, Nono, and Kurt·g with the SWR Vokalensemble have received a number of awards from the critics.