05/06/2026
The 4th Season has been recorded. Nearly two years after the idea of 4 chamber groups, and four new works for the Seasons started to emerge - we’ve reached this milestone with the amazing Galliard Ensemble recording “Spring in Steep, 1915” in St Bartholomew’s Church, Orford where Britten premiered and recorded much of his later work.
It’s been a long and inspiring road, with & all surpassing my already high expectations of them, both musically, and also being very funny to spend time with. You’re legends all.
Although the project began with a literary structure, the illness and passing of my Mum in the middle of it and the comfort I found in poetry has meant that the whole project is now framed around remembrance texts from WW1. There are key poems from Edward Thomas, Alice Meynell, and May Wedderburn Cannan, and the Seasons actually play in reverse, from Summer 1914 to Autumn 1918.
The album will be out by the end of the year, and I’m hugely grateful to everyone wrangling the multiple groups, locations and recordings.
