As the season of Advent continues, looking forward to Christmas – and in this particular case, beyond to Epiphany – we offer our recording of ‘Videntes Stellam’, the third of Francis Poulenc’s ‘Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps de Noël’. Click this link to hear: https://youtu.be/igcJ9ybI8bo * Latin text: Videntes stellam, Magi gavisi sunt gaudio...

As we continue the season of Advent, looking forward to Christmas, we offer our recording of ‘Quem Vidistis Pastores’, the second of Francis Poulenc’s ‘Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps de Noël’. Click this link: https://youtu.be/yxw5sM6sXog * Latin text: Quem vidistis pastores dicite,annuntiate nobis in terris quis apparuit?Natum vidimus et choros angelorumcollaudantes Dominum. Dicite quidnam...

  As we enter the season of Advent, looking forward to Christmas, we offer our recording of ‘O Magnum Mysterium’, the first of Francis Poulenc’s ‘Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps de Noël’. To play the video, click on the black box below! Latin text: ‘O magnum mysterium, et admirabile sacramentum, ut animalia viderent Dominum...

Rosemary Day, who died on September 18th, was a remarkable and fearless woman who possessed great vision and energy. JCS Music Director Peter Broadbent writes: ‘When I first met Rosemary, she was a Director of London Buses Ltd, where she was preparing the company for privatisation, and she demonstrated enormous confidence and ability to...

Today, 26th September, is the 75th Anniversary of the death of Béla Bartók, one of the most important composers of the 20th Century and one of Hungary’s greatest sons. There will be Bartók commemorations around the world today: click on the link below to hear JCS performing the last of his Four Hungarian Folksongs...