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17/08/2025

Lovely to hear Helen Leach's 'Buttercup' from Diary of the Bee on BBC Radio 3 while I was sitting in the garden surrounded by bees busy on the lavender!

Prelude – Bluebell; 2. Air – Thistle; 3. Scherzo – Forget-me-not; 4. Romanza – Wild Rose; 5. Introduction and Capriccio – Buttercup. For Clarinet in A and String Quartet Duration

17/08/2025

Happy birthday Edward Cowie ! Your first winter birthday for a while!

Edward Cowie’s first BBC Proms commission was Leviathan, a large scale orchestral work premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1975. It marked the first major event in a career

10/08/2025

Album · 2025 · 24 Songs

06/08/2025

To all choirs planning their Christmas repertoire, please listen to Diana Burrell's 'Green Groweth the Holly'. Commissioned by Edward Wickham for St Catharine's College Cambridge it is an exuberant setting of Henry VIII's text, and a great sing!

Text Henry VIII. For SATB choir a ca****la, with optional high voice choir. Duration c.5′. ISMN M 2244 1228 4

06/08/2025

Edward Cowie introduces his next CD, ‘Because they have Songs’, due for release on Metier Divine Arts on September 19.
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Brilliant playing from Gerard McChrystal (saxophone(s)), and Richard Shaw (piano).

My introduction to ‘Because they have Songs’Due for release on Metier Divine Arts label on September 19!

01/08/2025

We performed another premiere!
Actually, it was the same piece we played last week in the UK - Arietta by David Loeb - but we are still happy to say that our performance of this piece last night was the first to be heard in Europe!
We have really enjoyed preparing it and combining it with our programme. Thank you very much for sending us the music.

Our concert last night also contained music by our friend Sebastien Vachez, as well as other French music by Satie. We also played some of our favourites by Paganini, Piazzolla, and Sarasate!

We have been so welcomed into this community - we have met so many kind and generous members of Les Amis de Saint-Ilpize who have treated us to a really wonderful experience every time we have been here. Thank you so much to everyone in Les Amis de Saint-Ilpize, and to the huge audience who came to hear us play, in this absolutely beautiful setting on top of a volcano in the Auvergne region of France. We look forward to coming back again, and staying in touch with many friends.