Letters

Celebrating 400 Years Since William Byrd

Note: Don’t miss your FREE SHOW below! When William Byrd left the royal court in 1594 and went to Essex to live among the relative safety of the local Catholic landowners who supported his creative efforts, he may not have imagined another nearly three decades to a life that he finally left in 1623. We now […]

A Free Monteverdi Christmas for You

Note: Don’t miss your FREE SHOW below! It was during Christmas of 1616 Monteverdi wrote to the great poet Alessandro Striggio in Mantua, apologizing for not getting back in reply to Striggio’s original letter. By this time, Striggio had also become secretary to the new Duke. This was Ferdinando I, the second son of the […]

A Statement from Suzi Digby

I have a great sense of personal loss, in addition to the loss to the Nation, the Commonwealth, and indeed, the world. I met the Queen several times over the years. She was able to create a feeling of relaxed intimacy. Everything was imbued with the subtlest sense of humour with no trace of imperiousness […]

A Special Spring Gift from Suzi Digby!

Stella is the latest from our friend Suzi Digby with her Ora Singers. Inspired both by the beautiful early Medieval hymn to the Virgin Mary, likening her to the star that guides sailors on the ocean, and the glorious Marian settings by the Renaissance Spaniard Tomás Luis de Victoria, it is also reflective of Suzi’s […]