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25 October 2011The Prince Consort's latest album, Other Love Songs, featuring a new song cycle by Stephen Hough and the Brahms Liebeslieder is now available for download and pre-order from the Linn website. The album also features special guests Philip Fowke and Stephen Hough joining Alisdair Hogarth at the piano. Click here for more info.
16 May 2011
Up to two weeks before any concerts we will accept applications for reduced-price tickets for the unemployed. Please apply via the contact form on this website.
10 May 2011
The Prince Consort is featured as the lead interview in the June edition of Gramophone Magazine. Read the interview here.
8 March 2011
Up to two weeks before any of our concerts we will accept applications for reduced-price tickets for the unemployed. Please apply via the form on this website.
6 March 2011
An interview with The Prince Consort on their forthcoming album, Other Love Songs, is featured in the 26 February issue of Classical Music Magazine. "The Prince Consort is anything but average - innovative programming and first-class performances mark it out as one of the most distinctive presences on today's concert scene."
1 March 2011
Beginning on 14 March 2011 The Prince Consort begins a five day residency at Aldeburgh Festival culminating in a recital in the Jubilee Hall on Friday 18 March. We'll be working on American songs by Musto, Heggie, Rorem, Copland, Bolcom, Barber and Jason McCoy, and the residency will include regular blog posts, podcasts and video coverage.
4 January 2011
The Prince Consort has been named in The Observer's Best Classical Music of 2010, highlighting their world premiere of Stephen Hough's Herbstlieder at Oxford Lieder Festival in October.
10 October 2010
Stephen Hough has written a blog post in the Telegraph about his song-cycle "Herbstlieder" which we are premiering at Oxford Lieder Festival on 21 October at the Holywell Music Room. Pre-concert talk at 7pm with the concert at 8pm. The programme also includes Schumann Spanische Liebeslieder and songs by Quilter and Barber. Read Stephen's blog post here.
3 October 2010
Our next recording with LINN Records will feature both sets of Brahms Liebeslieder and new cycle written specially for us by Stephen Hough called Other Love Songs. The recording will be released in June 2011 and special guests Philip Fowke and Stephen Hough will join Alisdair Hogarth at the piano. See our previous album, of Ned Rorem songs here
1 October 2010
We have just performed two brand new songs by Stephen Hough at the 2010 Gramophone Awards at The Dorchester, where our fantastic record label LINN Records won Label of the Year! Congratulations LINN!
13 July 2010
Following on from Editor's Choice in The Gramophone last year, The Prince Consort collects another award from International Record Review. "The five singers are a vocally attractive lot and truly sensitive both to the texts and to the ways in which Rorem's music illuminates those texts", raves Raymond Tuttle; "These performances, cannily sequenced, are a model of how these songs should be sung". Director Alisdair Hogarth "makes a treasurable contribution… Rorem's piano … demands artistry and technical skill. Hogarth supplies it unstintingly." Read the complete review here
3 November 2009
The Prince Consort's debut CD of the songs of Ned Rorem, 'On an Echoing Road' is now available in the shops and for download (www.linnrecords.com). Ned Rorem wrote to the group "Dear friends, your performances alone and together are in every way ideal. The recording is flawless. Thank you, thank you - NED ROREM."
29 October 2009
The Prince Consort received a four star review from Andrew Clements in The Guardian for their recent European premiere of Rorem's Evidence of Things Not Seen at Oxford Lieder Festival. "The outstanding singers of the Prince Consort caught the sense of accumulating weight of experience perfectly."
26 March 2009
The Prince Consort is delighted to announce its new general management with Rayfield Artists.
23 January 2009
The Prince Consort received a rave review from Anna Picard in The Independent, for their recent Wigmore Hall debut: 'Stylistically and tonally, the blend was sensational...a vivid, compelling performance.'
25 November 2008Tickets are now available for The Prince Consort's much anticipated concert at Wigmore Hall on 11 January 2009 at 4pm. Joined by guests Graham Johnson and Anna Grevelius, the programme will include the complete Brahms Liebeslieder and duets by Schumann. Tickets available on +44 (0)20 7935 2141.
2 August 2008
It has just been confirmed that the Prince Consort will be giving the official European premiere of Ned Rorem's masterpiece song cycle 'Evidence of things not seen' at the 2009 Oxford Lieder Festival to coincide with their CD and DVD release of his songs.
28 July 2008
The Prince Consort will be performing a programme entitled 'Zigeunerlieder' at the 2008 Oxford Lieder Festival. The concert is on 16 October, starts at 8pm and will take place in the Jacqueline du Pre Music Building. Tickets are available on +44 (0)1865 305305.
31 May 2008
The Prince Consort is pleased to announce that their debut recording of Ned Rorem songs will be released on Linn Records in 2009.
26 May 2008
The Prince Consort is giving a recital of the Brahms Liebeslieder at Wigmore Hall on 11 January 2009 with special guest Graham Johnson.
26 February 2008
It has just been confirmed that the Prince Consort will be performing as part of the prestigious line-up in the Young Singers Welfare Foundation Gala Concert later this year at Wigmore Hall, London.
12 February 2008
The Prince Consort is delighted to announce their collaboration with Canis Media who will be sponsoring and producing their forthcoming DVD.
26 January 2008
The Prince Consort will be doing a residency at Aldeburgh in the 2008 season.
17 January 2008
The Prince Consort performs at the Young Singers' Welfare Foundation launch concert and are joined by their patron Sir Thomas Allen, as well as Rosemary Joshua, Donald Maxwell and Lillian Watson. The evening raised over 8000 for this great cause and we're really pleased to have been involved. Thanks to all those that supported the event!
