Signum Records

11/11/2022

🎄 The all male ensemble Cantus have released their first Christmas album on Signum Records

🎧 Buy, stream and download the album lnk.to/IntoTheLight

★★★★ "[Cantus] manages to re-energize seasonal favorites in some entertaining ways that remain appropriate for Christmas…[The] low-voice arrangements are inevitably delivered with warmth and the kind of dark beauty befitting the winter season" - Transcentury Blog

🇺🇸 US customers can purchase from ArkivMusic https://arkivmusic.com/products/into-the-light-635212072325

“What it shows in this seasonal recording is that even straightforward celebratory music, even music with which listeners have been familiar for years or decades, can sound new and more special than ever when proffered in well-thought-out arrangements by singers who, individually and collectively, seem fully to have internalized the secular joy as well as the spirituality of the Christmas season – and who are able to express the meaning and meaningfulness of this time of year through unerringly paced, lovingly presented versions of every single piece on the disc.”

Thanks to Infodad.com for another great review of “Into the Light”, our new holiday album with Signum Records!! ❤️🎶❄️

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11/11/2022

It's finally here - Forza Azzurri! is released today! 🥳

You can listen to it here 👉 https://lnk.to/ForzaAzzurri

A feast of lesser-known Italian Baroque instrumental music, Forza Azzurri! features the world premiere recording of Brescianello's Overture-Suite for strings & continuo in D 💿

We are also excited for you to hear Tabea Debus - Recorder who joins us for both the Sammartini concerto for soprano recorder in F major and the Vivaldi Concerto for sopranino recorder, strings & continuo in C, RV 443 🎵

If a world premiere and a fantastic soloist aren't enough to tempt you to have a listen today, how about this; Adrian reckons it's "our most bangingest album ever." 🥁

This album was generously supported by Continuo Foundation and the Arts Council England Culture Recovery Fund.

Recorded in Cedars Hall, Somerset 🎤

Robin Bigwood Signum Records The Orchard Premier Classical Simone Pirri Carina Drury - cello Vladimir Waltham - cello

08/11/2022

Not long to go... 👀

Be the first to hear our new album by pre-saving or ordering your copy here 👉 https://lnk.to/ForzaAzzurri

Thanks to Continuo Foundation and the Arts Council England Culture Recovery Fund for supporting this album.
Signum Records Premier Classical The Orchard

02/11/2022

🕊️To A Skylark: Julie Cooper featuring Grace and Joshua Davidson

The first single to be released off Julie Cooper’s next album
OCULUS, the third album of hers to feature the acclaimed soprano Grace Davidson

🎧Stream here: lnk.to/ToASkylark

T H E S T O R Y: When Grace shared a phone video clip with Julie of her son Joshua (then 12) rehearsing with the harpist Camilla Pay earlier this year, she was completely taken with not only Joshua’s incredible sound and musicianship, but particularly with the unnerving similarity between his and Grace’s voices. Inspired to capture this extremely rare Mother and Son talent, Julie wrote the duet ‘To a Skylark’ for them, setting text from the beautiful poem of the same name by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Joshua is delighted to take the lead with the words as Grace soars above in answer to him. He has recently finished his final year at St.John’s College, Cambridge as Head Chorister.

📺 Watch the full music video here: shorturl.at/krWZ2

Harpist Camilla Pay
Oculus Ensemble strings
Conducted by Simon Hale
Produced by Jonathan Allen
📹 Video: Alex Barnes of Apple and Biscuit Recordings

30/09/2022

A Percussionist's Songbook is out today!

“Percussionist extraordinaire Joby Burgess” returns with his fifth album on Signum Records, “A Percussionist’s Songbook” – a collection of specially commissioned ‘songs without words’ from John Metcalfe, Tunde Jegede, Dario Marianelli, Yazz Ahmed, Graham Fitkin, Dobrinka Tabakova and Gabriel Prokofiev.

Scored for an arsenal of pitched percussion and electronics the songbook is inspired by texts ranging from the poetry of Robert Graves and Birago Diop to novels by Michael Ondaatje and Isaac Asimov; American philosopher Michael Sandel, songwriter Peter Gabriel, United Nation population growth statistics and Saudi Arabian folk tales.

➡️lnk.to/PercussionistsSongbook

Release Day 😊

A Percussionist’s Songbook - a collection of specially commissioned ‘songs without words’ from John Metcalfe, Tunde Jegede, Dario Marianelli, Yazz Ahmed, Graham Fitkin, Dobrinka Tabakova and Gabriel Prokofiev.

http://lnk.to/PercussionistsSongbook

John Metcalfe Yazz Ahmed Graham Fitkin Dobrinka Tabakova Gabriel Prokofiev Signum Records Premier Classical

22/09/2022

🌙🌙A double MOON treat to celebrate a double digit kind of day (September 22, 2022)

Hear Titan now - lnk.to/TheMoonsSymphony
Pre order lnk.to/TheMoonsSymphony

London Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop
Nicole Stott
The Moons Symphony

20/09/2022

🎧OUT TODAY: The Albion Quartet: Walton String Quartet in A Minor: II. Presto
http://lnk.to/WaltonShosQuartets

➡️ Swipe to see images of the recording sessions in Saffron Hall, July 2021.

‘The concept for the album was to juxtapose two masterpieces written in the same year in the immediate aftermath of war (1946) by composers inhabiting two entirely different social and political worlds in the Soviet Union and Britain respectively. The sense of deep anxiety and trepidation (more openly expressed in the Shostakovich quartet but nevertheless felt in the Walton too) is something we did not realise at the time of recording would be so apposite in these times of war in which we find ourselves’

🎧 The quartet’s upcoming release ‘Walton & Shostakovich String Quartets’ is out on 4 November, you can listen to first single now ➡️ lnk.to/WaltonShosQuartets
💿 Pre order: lnk.to/WaltonShosQuartets
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13/09/2022

Our very own Anna Lapwood!

A spontaneous performance from an unassuming train station employee caught in a touching viral moment...

07/09/2022

01/09/2022

The Psalms - Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge

➡️ Swipe to see images of the recording sessions in 2018 and 2019.

‘Psalms are at the heart of our choir’s musical identity. They inform everything else we perform – technically, musically and emotionally. They are the best medium for a choir to communicate directly with members of a congregation. The Chapel at St John’s is a perfect space in which to sing psalms’ - Andrew Nethsingha

🎧 The choir’s latest release ‘The Psalms’ is out on 16 September, you can listen to three tracks from the album now ➡️ lnk.to/Psalms
💿 Pre order: lnk.to/Psalms