THE PRIMROSE PIANO QUARTET
Susanne Stanzeleit, violin – Dorothea Vogel, viola – Andrew Fuller, cello – John Thwaites, piano
The Primrose Piano Quartet was formed in 2004 by four renowned chamber musicians and is named after the great Scottish violist, William Primrose, who himself played in the Festival Piano Quartet.
The group’s acclaimed discography includes favourites such as works by Fauré, Brahms, Elgar, Strauss and Schubert as well British repertoire featuring neglected masterpieces of the 19th and 20th century and major commissions from Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Anthony Payne (premièred at the Cheltenham Festival and at King’s Place London).
The Quartet enjoy a busy performing schedule throughout the UK and abroad with recent tours taking them to Denmark, Germany, Romania, Portugal and Bulgaria in addition to regular appearances at London’s Kings Place, Wigmore and Conway Halls.
The group’s double CD of the complete Brahms piano quartets on period pianos was the culmination of years of research into Historically Informed Performance Practice. The project involved the musicians and recording team travelling to Vienna to record in the historic “Ehrbahrsaal”, where Brahms himself frequently performed, using three different pianos of the period from the famous Gert Hechner collection. The result has been hailed by critics as “revelatory”.
Their latest recording focuses on the French Romantics. The disc features works by Fauré, Saint-Saëns and Chausson using a contemporary Erard piano and was released in 2024.
Their own festival here in West Meon is now in its 16th year, and they were appointed ensemble-in-residence at the Battle Festival in 2016. Since 2025 they have been artistic directors of Torbay Musical Weekend. www.torbaymusicalweekend.co.uk
Susanne Stanzeleit
One of the leading violinists of her generation, Susanne has performed worldwide as a soloist and chamber musician. Her unusually challenging and extensive repertoire features many commissions and UK premières of works by composers such as Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Anthony Payne, John Adams, Lou Harrison, György Kurtág, John Woolrich, Philip Cashian and many others. Her long list of critically acclaimed commercial recordings feature the works of Bartók, Enescu and Dvořàk as well as Beethoven violin sonatas and an extensive series of English sonata recordings. Chamber music recordings include seven discs with the Maggini and Edinburgh Quartets, music by Kenneth Leighton, three CDs with Jane’s Minstrels and six discs with the Primrose Piano Quartet. In 2006 she was appointed producer for Meridian Records. She was leader of the Maggini Quartet until 2013 and is in high demand as guest leader of many of the leading symphony and chamber orchestras, ensembles and contemporary music groups in Britain. She was head of strings at the London College of Music and Media from 2002–2006 and now teaches at the Birmingham Conservatoire.
Dorothea Vogel
Dorothea was born in Switzerland and studied with Rudolf Weber in Winterthur. After winning first prize in the Swiss Youth Competition, Dorothea won scholarships to study with Paul Coletti at the Peabody Institute, USA, and with David Takeno and Micaela Comberti at the Guildhall School in London, where she graduated with the coveted Concert Recital Diploma.
She was a founder member of the Amar Quartet. Dorothea has played the baroque viola in the Kings Consort and Florilegium and has been both principal viola in the Gustav Mahler Orchestra and the World Youth Orchestra in Israel.
In 2001 she joined the Allegri String Quartet, one of the UK’s longest-standing chamber groups, with whom she enjoys a busy performing, touring and recording schedule.
She teaches viola and chamber music at the Royal Welsh College as well as chamber music at Pro Corda and festivals throughout the UK.
Andrew FUller
Andrew has been a member of the Primrose Piano Quartet since 2008. With the quartet he has toured extensively both in the UK and Europe and made many broadcasts and recordings including recent landmark Historically Informed recordings for Meridian: the Brahms Piano Quartets with period pianos in Vienna’s Ehrbar Hall, and in 2023 the Fauré and Chausson quartets with a late 19th century Erard.
His recordings of British works with pianist Michael Dussek on the Dutton Epoch label received critical acclaim several being selected as Editor’s Choice in Gramophone Magazine. His duo with guitarist John Mills released their latest CD “Latin Serenade” in 2024 on the Meridian label.
As chamber musician he has made many appearances at The Wigmore Hall the South Bank and King’s Place, and at festivals and music societies around the world.
He was a member of Primavera, the York Piano Trio, the Fibonacci sequence and Aquarius. He has also been a guest player with other Groups including the Sorrel, Brindisi and Coull String Quartets, Endymion and the Schubert Ensemble.
He was Associate Principal cello with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (1990-1997). Since then he has regularly worked as guest principal for the RPO as well as many other orchestras including the Philharmonia, BBC Concert Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the City of London Sinfonia and the Orchestra of St Johns.
John Thwaites
John is best known for his collaborative work with strings. He has worked over decades with cellists Alexander Baillie and Johannes Goritzki, and appeared with Pierre Doumenge, Adrian Brendel, Natalie Clein, Li Wei, Jian Wang and others. A string of recordings with Alexander Baillie for the SOMM label include a Five Star Chamber Music Choice of the Month for BBC Music Magazine.
He has played quintets with the Martinu, Maggini, Dante Schidlof, Emperor and Aurea String Quartets. Theatrical collaborations have included work with Simon Callow, Tony Britton and Tim Piggott-Smith.
His research focus is on Historically Informed Performance Practice in Brahms and British Chamber Music. He has appeared in many major British and International Festivals, the major London concert halls, and many broadcast channels including BBC Radio Three.
John’s teaching career is extensive and he is currently Course Director of the Cadenza International Summer Music School and Head of the Department of Keyboard Studies at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where he has directed major festivals of Ireland, Delius, Bax, Skryabin and Brahms as well as a celebrity-Gala at Birmingham Town Hall.
This Year's guests (in order of appearance)
Amiri Harewood
A postgraduate student at the Royal College of Music under the tutelage of Danny Driver, pianist Amiri Harewood has performed at some of the UK’s most prestigious venues, including the Royal Albert Hall (as part of the Steinway Young Artist series), St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Wigmore Hall and Royal Festival Hall.
After being selected as a Grand Prize winner of the Young Classical Artist Trust and Concert Artists Guild International Auditions in May 2024, Amiri has since been named a Classic FM Rising Star for 2025 and has performed throughout the UK including at St George’s Hanover Square, Brunton Theatre near Edinburgh and Harrogate International Festival Sunday Series. His appearances further afield included recitals at the Conservatorio in Venice, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Kissingen KlavierOlymp, Grachtenfestival Amsterdam and the Mozart Music Festival in Forli, Italy. He was selected as one of the participants in the 2025 Lieven Piano Festival, attending masterclasses with Arie Vardi, Andreas Staier and Eldar Nebolsin.
Over the 2025/26 season Amiri’s career shows no signs of slowing down as he makes his debut at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Berlin Konzerthaus, returns to Wigmore Hall and makes his North American debut with a tour including recitals in Chicago and New York.
Amiri’s Royal Festival Hall concerto debut with Chineke! Orchestra was universally acclaimed, described as a “…Royal Festival Hall debut of considerable panache…” (Geoff Brown, The Times) as he brought “…confidence and a touch of grandiloquence to Grieg’s Piano Concerto…” (Richard Fairman, The Financial Times).
Amiri uses his versatile experiences to inspire his playing. He has sought to help the next generation of musicians develop their passion and talent, performing youth outreach work with Music Masters and as one of the first Tabor Piano Ambassadors of the Leeds International Piano Competition representing the Royal College of Music.
Martin Stanzeleit
Born in Bamberg, Germany, Martin Stanzeleit began playing the cello at the age of five. He studied with Yong-Chang Cho at the Essen University of Music, graduating with honors. He continued his studies with Christoph Richter, Siegfried Palm, Heinrich Schiff, and Janos Starker. He joined the Royal Danish Opera in 1995 and was subsequently invited to become principal cellist of the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1998 to 2026, he served as the principal cellist of the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra. He is currently a member of the National Orchestra of the United Arab Emirates. In addition to performing as a soloist with orchestras throughout Japan, including the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, Martin Stanzeleit is also frequently invited to perform as a guest principal cellist. In 2011, he received the Prefectural Cultural Encouragement Award from the Kenshin Cultural Promotion Foundation for his contributions to the development of regional cultural activities. In 2015, he released the CD “Live in Karuizawa”. In 2019, with members of the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra he formed the “Nerion Quartet”, which released their debut album “A Concert For Peace” in 2021 and the CD “Souvenir” in 2024.
Beth Stone
As an avid player of all flutes from renaissance all the way through to modern flute, London-based Beth Stone enjoys a colourful career performing in many different settings in the UK and Europe. She has had the pleasure of working with a variety of orchestras including the Academy of Ancient Music; Irish Baroque Orchestra; Ex-Cathedra; The Sixteen; Armonico Consort; Cambridge Handel Opera Company; among many others. Her playing can also be heard on recordings with the Taverner Consort and the Academy of Ancient Music. Beth’s radio debut took place in Germany for WDR3 and she has recorded albums with Lumas Winds for Champs Hill and Flutes & Frets Duo for EM Records. She has won several prizes in competitions including the 2023 International H.I.F. Biber Competition; 2022 Royal Overseas League Competition; and the Telemann Fantasia Recording Competition 2021.
Chamber music has always been a central part of Beth’s music making. She has performed with several chamber groups, and now primarily, the award-winning Flutes & Frets Duo and Lumas Winds which have enabled her to perform in many festivals, concerts, competitions and events. Supported by several schemes and trusts including The Munster Trust; Kirckman Concerts; Making Music, Tunnell Trust and the European Festivals Association she has had the opportunity to tour all over the UK and Europe.
Beth spent seven years studying at Chetham’s School of Music from age eleven, taking an interest in historical flutes in her final two years there. As an Ian Evans Lombe Scholar, she graduated from the Royal College of Music with a first class honours in 2022, where she studied modern flute with Gitte Marcusson and historical flutes with Rachel Brown as part of the joint principal course, winning the RCM McKenna Prize for the highest end-of-year recital mark in a baroque instrument.
Daniel Murphy
Daniel Murphy specialises in performing a variety of plucked-stringed instruments and enjoys a solo career as well as collaborating with many different singers and instrumentalists. Inspired by the great lute players of the past, historical accuracy is at the heart of his music-making.
As a young guitarist, Daniel Murphy studied at the Junior Guildhall Music Department for 4 years with Mark Eden and Matthew Robinson. He then started his Undergraduate studies at the Royal College of Music studying Classical Guitar with Carlos Bonell. During the first two years of his degree, he gradually transitioned to the historical performance department and in his third year, he became RCM’s first ever undergraduate principal-study theorbo player, studying with Jakob Lindberg. In 2023, he graduated from a Masters of Performance Degree with distinction.
Daniel’s freelance work includes collaborating with ensembles such as the Gabrieli Consort, the Dunedin Consort, Ex-Cathedra, Armonico Consort, and London Baroque Orchestra. As a lutenist, he regularly performs lute song with numerous singers including Emma Kirkby, Mary Bevan and Hugh Cutting. Opera forms a large part of his continuo playing, performing works including Handel’s Rodelinda; Purcell’s Fairy Queen, Dido & Aeneas and Monteverdi’s l’Orfeo.
As a member of the Bellot Ensemble, Daniel found a love for 17th century music. 2025 saw the ensemble selected as the BBC Young Generation Baroque Ensemble, as Britten Pears Artists and the release of their Debut Album “Cupid’s Ground Bass”.
Career highlights include performing with the Taverner Consort, conducted by Andrew Parrott in Frauenchiemsee, Germany and numerous features on Radio 3’s Early Music Show and a recent performance on WDR 3 Alte Musik. Daniel is the winner of the German Lute Society’s 1st International Lute Competition 2025 and the 2024 La Risonanza EMSA Competition.
Laura Rickard
Acclaimed British violinist Laura Rickard is crafting a multifaceted international career as a highly sought-after chamber musician and soloist, festival director, and passionate teacher. In demand as a concerto soloist, she regularly appears with orchestras across the UK, with recent performances at Royal Festival Hall and the Purcell Room. She has been featured on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, and NBC, and was also recently elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in recognition of her remarkable contributions to the field.
As violinist of the Mila Piano Trio, Laura has performed on many of the world’s renowned stages. Recent successes include winning first prize at Verao Classico, debuts at St Martin-in-the-Fields and St. John’s Smith Square, and appearing at many of the UK’s leading festivals. As a chamber musician Laura is regularly invited to play at festivals including HearAndNow (Amsterdam), Montesinho (Portugal), San Miguel de Allende (Mexico), Atlantic (USA) and Presteigne (Wales).
A keen proponent of contemporary music, Laura has commissioned and premiered works by some of the leading composers of her generation. Recent premieres include Robert Peate Concerto for Violin and Double Orchestra, Cydonie Banting Alpha for solo violin, Eleanor Alberga Glimpses, Glances and Martin Butler Five Vignettes.
Laura is the founder and Artistic Director of the Romsey Chamber Music Festival, one of the UK’s leading festivals of its kind, which brings world-class artists to her hometown each Spring, featuring an imaginatively curated and diverse programme of chamber music. Praised by Classical Source as “a little gem” and by Seen and Heard International as “remarkable”, the festival’s activities continue throughout the year. It has an ambitious education programme which has reached over 3000 children in Hampshire which covers first access in primary schools, a Young Artists Programme which includes coaching young musicians, side-by-side projects and masterclasses. Other activities include regular residencies and concerts, and commissions of new works. “The atmosphere of camaraderie and joie de vivre has characterized the festival since its inception in 2018” – The Hampshire Chronicle. For more information about RCMF please visit www.romseychambermusic.com
Laura studied at St John’s College, Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music, where her teachers included Erich Gruenberg, Remus Azoitei, Alex Redington. Supported by the Academy and the Craxton Memorial Trust, she received the DipRAM for an outstanding final recital and the Doris Faulkner Prize, later serving as Meaker Fellow in Violin. She now teaches violin and chamber music at the Academy and King’s College London. As a passionate educator Laura has given recent masterclasses and coaching at the University of Cambridge, Cadenza International Summer School and Musikakademie in Liechtenstein amongst others.
Eden Stell Guitar Duo
EDEN STELL GUITAR DUO – Mark Eden & Christopher Stell
Widely regarded as one of the world’s leading guitar ensembles, the duo’s chameleon-like ability to communicate in a multitude of musical styles makes them a constantly evolving entity with a unique creative voice.
Likened to a ‘miraculous single guitarist blessed with an impossibly wonderful technique and an exceptionally delicate touch’ The Observer the Eden Stell Guitar Duo have performed around the world and regularly tour in USA, China and Europe, appearing on television and radio including the BBC, ITV, European and North American networks.
Mark Eden and Christopher Stell began their duo as teenage undergraduates at the Royal Academy of Music, completing their studies with the Principal’s Prize for Achievement and the Julian Bream Prize. They continued their studies in Brussels with the Sérgio and Odair Assad with aid from the Worshipful Company of Musicians.
The Duo made their debut at London’s Southbank Centre as part of the Park Lane Group’s Young Artists’ Concert Series, soon after winning the South East Musicians’ Platform giving them further concerts including a Wigmore Hall. They are regulars at London venues, especially Kings Place for music organisations such as ‘Live Music Now!’, Kirckman Concert Society, Classical Guitar Magazine, and a long association with IGF (International Guitar Foundation).
Mark and Chris’ recent engagements have featured performances with the Baden-Baden Philharmonie performing Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concerto Madrigal in the presence of Cecilia Rodrigo, 92&Y New York City, International Festival Changsha China, The Baltic Guitar Festival Lithuania, the Maui Guitar Summer School, and the Jüchen Guitar Festival Germany.
They have worked with Internationally acclaimed composers Adam Gorb, Dusan Bogdanovic, Laura Snowden, Gary Ryan, and Johannes Moller; but the duo have had a personal association and musical affinity with the composer Stephen Dodgson going back to the beginning of their duo partnership, resulting in a Concertino for two guitars and strings as well as a recordings of Stephen’s music which was Editor’s Choice in Gramophone magazine on release.
The Duo have recorded 9 CDs to date on BGS, Hannsler Classics, and Naxos covering a diverse range of musical projects including baroque keyboard transcriptions of Rameau and Couperin, Brazilian music, and a multi media CD of music inspired by places around the British Isles. Their recording ‘Cançons i Dansas’ (BGS129) features the compete Songs and Dances by Catalan composer Federico Mompou. “There is real soul in this music and these guys consistently find it in these deeply humane, wonderfully unassuming performances.” MusicWeb International
The Duo now record exclusively for Deux-Elles releasing a set of ten sonatas by baroque keyboard master Domenico Scarlatti in 2023 which was likened to Horowitz piano recordings on BBC Radio 3.
The Duo celebrated the 2024 centenary of guitar legend Ida Presti and her duo partnership with Alexandre Lagoya recording works by Presti and original duos dedicated to them as well as the groundbreaking Johannes Moller piece ‘When buds are breaking ….’ “Eden and Stell relish Möller’s accessible yet complex writing, their singing tones and ability to colour a note, phrase or paragraph with equal nuance and intensity matched by a near-telepathic sense of independence and ensemble.” Gramophone 2024
As well as creating imaginative arrangements Chris in recent years has also composed new works, many inspired by the poetry, music and ancient heritage of Armenia, culminating in a new recording for 2025 called ‘Invisible Guests’.
Mark and Chris enjoy many collaborations and projects including performing regularly as part of the acclaimed Vida Guitar Quartet, (tenor) James Gilchrist, (flautist) Jessica Maria Quinones, (lutenist) Matthew Wasworth, Play2 Armenia, Jackdaws Educational Music Trust, Winchester Guitar Festival, and Ammerdown Guitar Summer School.
Chris and Mark are Associates of the Royal Academy of Music in recognition of their musical achievements and both currently teach at the Royal College of Music London, and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire respectively. The duo are D’Addario strings endorsed artists.
“Presti’s tuneful Étude fantasque, Jolivet’s weightier Sérénade pour deux guitares, Daniel-Lesur’s lyrical Elégie and Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s moving Fuga elegiaca – To the Memory of Ida Presti. These Eden and Stell dispatch with immense feeling and even a certain reverence. But in both the conception and the execution, it’s Chris Stell’s fine arrangement of Bach’s Concerto in D minor, BWV974 (after Alessandro Marcello), that perhaps brings us closer to the true
spirit of the Presti-Lagoya project – the earlier duo’s sheer taste, ambition and style.” Gramophone
“The (Scarlatti) arrangements work so well. The clarity of the lines remind me of listening to classic Horowitz piano recordings. It’s a good recording!” Record Review – BBC Radio 3
“The fantastic Eden Stell duo manage to extract every gram of essence from this music and re-present it tastefully and imaginatively” MusicWeb International
“The Eden Stell Duo played to the max!” New York Times
“In every respect the performances and recording are of the highest quality. The Eden-Stell Duo are one of the best dubs around. This is a landmark recording on the guitar’s map.” Gramophone
“… utterly entertaining and absorbing but with a refinement that could also melt your heart.” Classical Guitar Magazine
“Mark Eden and Christopher Stell have breathed new life into the world of the classical guitar … they do what a whole generation of guitarists haven’t – they communicate the music first and foremost … Here is the future of the guitar music.” Rotterdam Dagblad, Netherlands
“Their performance exuded such natural vitality and joy in their skills and rapport that I was hanging on almost every note … a riveting experience.” The Independent
James Gilchrist
James Gilchrist began his working life as a doctor, turning to a full-time career in music in 1996. His musical interest was fired at a young age, singing first as a chorister in the choir of New College, Oxford, and later as a choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge. Gilchrist’s extensive concert repertoire has seen him perform in major concert halls throughout the world with conductors including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Roger Norrington, Bernard Labadie, Harry Christophers, Harry Bicket, Masaaki Suzuki and the late Richard Hickox. A master of English music, he has performed Britten Church Parables in St Petersburg, in London and at the Aldeburgh Festival, Nocturne with the NHK Symphony in Tokyo and War Requiem with the San Francisco Symphony and the National Youth Orchestra of Germany. Equally at home in Baroque repertoire, appearances include Handel L’Allegro il Penseroso ed il Moderato with Stuttgart Bachakademie and at Teatro Real, Madrid, Solomon with Les Violons du Roy, Semele with Concerto Köln, Elijah with the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España, Madrid, Goteborgs Symfoniker and Bach Collegium Japan, all under the baton of Masaaki Suzuki, Hercules with the English Concert, Ode to St Cecilia with Basel Chamber Orchestra and Messiah with Boston Handel & Haydn Society and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Bach Christmas Oratorio and the St John and St Matthew Passion feature prominently in his schedule, and he is celebrated as perhaps the finest Evangelist of his generation; as one review noted, ‘he hasn’t become a oneman Evangelist industry by chance’. In the 2024-25 season, Gilchrist will reprise of the role of Rev. Horace Adams in Deborah Warner’s acclaimed production of Britten Peter Grimes in his house debut at the Opera di Roma. Concert highlights this season include Bach Mass in B Minor with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Handel Messiah with Finland’s Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Handel Israel in Egypt with the Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic Orchestra in Krakow, Poland, Messiah and Christmas Oratorio at London’s St John’s Smith Square with Polyphony and Stephen Layton and a tour of Bach St Matthew Passion to the Netherlands with De Nederlandse Bachvereniging. In recital, he appears with pianist Anna Tilbrook at the Oxford International Song Festival, Canterbury Music Club, Bayle Music Folkstone, Carwithen Music Festival, Wensleydale Concert Series and the Three Choirs Festival. Gilchrist and Tilbrook will also be joined by horn player, Ben Goldscheider, to present a trio programme at Sherborne Abbey Festival and at Champs Hill. On the opera stage, Gilchrist has performed the role of Rev. Adams with Bergen Philharmonic and Edward Gardner at the Bergen and Edinburgh International Festivals, and later at Den Norske Opera, Oslo, Grieghallen in Bergen and the Royal Festival Hall, London. He subsequently sang the role in Deborah Warner’s production in his company debuts at the Opéra national de Paris, Teatro Real Madrid (cond. Ivor Bolton), and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (cond. Sir Mark Elder). Other recent concert highlights include a European tour of Bach’s cantatas, Mass in B Minor and St John Passion with Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki, Christmas Oratorio with Stephen Layton and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Britten Serenade for Horn, Tenor and Strings with the London Mozart Players, Messiah with Tenebrae, Mendelssohn Elijah with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, a live in-concert recording with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales performing works by Warlock, Dowland and Judith Bingham, Haydn Creation with Dallas Symphony Orchestra and for a staged production with Garsington Opera and Ballet Rambert, as well as appearances with Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, a collaboration with the Academy of Ancient Music on a programme of Bach & Purcell, and a celebrated performance of St Matthew Passion at King’s College Cambridge as part of Stephen Cleobury’s final Easter week as Director of Music. Recent engagements in the US have included B minor Mass with Philharmonia Baroque in a tour of California, Bach’s Easter Oratorio with Music of the Baroque in Chicago, and the St John and St Matthew Passions as part of the Oregon Bach Festival. Steering away from familiar styles, Gilchrist recently worked with Eddie Parker’s Debussy Mirrored Ensemble with performances in York, Bristol and London. With a fusion of jazz, classical and improvisation the work was a celebration and creative response to Debussy’s work in the centenary of the composer’s death. In 2022, Gilchrist celebrated 25 years of collaboration with pianist Anna Tilbrook, commemorating the anniversary with a recital at the Oxford Lieder Festival. Recent performances together include recitals ‘Time’s Cruel Hand’ at the Wigmore Hall, ‘Around the World in 30 Songs’ at St John’s Smith Square, and a recital trilogy project for the Wigmore Hall – ‘Schumann and the English Romantics’, pairing Schumann song cycles with new commissions from leading composers Sally Beamish, Julian Philips and Jonathan Dove. Following the release of their disc Solitude in July 2020, JamGilchrist and Tilbrook returned to the Wigmore Hall for an exclusive performance of the programme broadcast live online. The disc, released on Chandos Records, includes Jonathan Dove’s Under Alter’d Skies, commissioned by and premiered at the Wigmore in 2017 for the Schumann song cycle project. Their latest recording of the songs of Roger Quilter was released on Chandos Records in 2024. Gilchrist’s impressive discography also includes recordings of Albert Herring (title role) and Vaughan Williams A Poisoned Kiss, St John Passion with the AAM, the Finzi song cycle Oh Fair To See, the critically-acclaimed recordings of Schubert’s song cycles for Orchid Classics and a disc of Schumann song cycles for Linn Records. More recently he has released Songs of Travel for Chandos, alongside Anna Tilbrook, and 100 Years of British Song, a three-part recording project focussing on ’The Art of British Song’, in collaboration with pianist Nathan Williamson, on Somm Recordings. This season, Gilchrist again collaborates with Nathan Williamson in a recording of the songs of Thomas Pitfield on the Divine Art label.