Products Archive – EXAUDI https://www.exaudi.org.uk/shop/ Vocal Ensemble Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:29:53 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://www.exaudi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cropped-Exaudi_favicon-32x32.png Products Archive – EXAUDI https://www.exaudi.org.uk/shop/ 32 32 Pocket Universe https://www.exaudi.org.uk/product/pocket-universe/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:01:32 +0000 https://www.exaudi.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=1102 Release Date: September 2026
Label: NMC Records

Pocket Universe is a compelling new recording from the internationally acclaimed vocal ensemble EXAUDI and conductor James Weeks, featuring works by Cassandra Miller, Andrew Hamilton, Leo Chadburn and Geoff Hannan.

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]]> Pocket Universe brings together four works commissioned and premiered by EXAUDI between 2013 and 2019 through the ensemble’s EXPOSURE showcase, capturing the remarkable artistic relationships the ensemble has forged with some of the most distinctive compositional voices working today.

Cassandra Miller‘s Guide weaves a Southern Baptist Hymn into ecstatic vocal loops; Andrew Hamilton’s glitched repetitions in Proclamation of the Republic lead a hysterical path through the text of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic; Leo Chadburn explores the sentimentality of the holiday postcard with gentle irony in Affix Stamp Here; and Geoff Hannan’s Pocket Universe condenses the cosmic speculation of Galileo and Newton into an obsessive and virtuosic tour-de-force.

Cassandra Miller (b 1976)

1. Guide (2013)

Andrew Hamilton (b 1977)

2. Proclamation of the Republic (2016)

Leo Chadburn (b 1978)

3. Affix Stamp Here

Geoff Hannan (b 1972)

4. Pocket Universe

EXAUDI gratefully acknowledges the Boltini Trust support of the following funders:

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]]> Chromatic Renaissance https://www.exaudi.org.uk/product/chromatic-renaissance/ Thu, 24 Jul 2025 11:16:07 +0000 https://www.exaudi.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=804 Release Date: August 2025
Label: Winter & Winter

Award-winning vocal ensemble EXAUDI present their latest recording Chromatic Renaissance – a collection of mesmeric, beautiful and incredibly challenging a cappella music from the 16th century that pushed the boundaries of harmony, tuning and microtonality to the extreme.

One of the top recordings of 2025 - The Guardian

Best classical releases of 2025 - The Arts Desk

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]]> The Chromatic Renaissance is a journey into the heart of a forgotten musical revolution. Beginning in 16th-century Italy, composer-theorists like Nicola Vicentino shattered the limits of conventional harmony, dividing the scale into 31 equal notes – not just the usual 12. These revolutionary ideas resulted in intricate microtonal madrigals and highly chromatic works that challenged musical boundaries and delighted ambitious princes and patrons alike.

These masterpieces paved the way for composers like Carlo Gesualdo, Cipriano de Rore, Luca Marenzio and Orlando di Lasso, whose works remain some of the most emotionally intense and sophisticated music of the era.

Since 2017, EXAUDI has been at the forefront of reviving this extraordinary music. To our knowledge, our residency at Aldeburgh Music in 2017 marked the first time in modern history that a vocal ensemble has sung Vicentino’s microtonal works unaccompanied.  EXAUDI is still the only ensemble regularly exploring this incredible and fiendishly difficult music.

EXAUDI is grateful to Angel Early Music for their generous support of this recording.

Orlando di Lasso (1532-94)

1. Timor et tremor

from Prophetiae Sibyllarum

2. Carmina Chromatico

3. I. Sibylla Persica

4. IX. Sibylla Europaea

5. X. Sibylla Tiburtina

6. XI. Sibylla Erythraea

7. XII. Sibylla Agrippa

Vicente Lusitano (1520-c.61)

8. Heu me, Domine

Nicola Vicentino (1511-c.76)

9. Hierusalem

10. Musica prisca caput

Madrigal Fragments

11. Soav’e dolc’ardore

12. Dolce mio ben

13. Madonna il poco dolce

14. Poi che’l mio largo pianto

Orlando di Lasso

15. Anna mihi dilecta

Cipriano de Rore (c.1515-65)

16. Da le belle contrade d’oriente

17. Calami sonum ferentes

18. O sonno

Luca Marenzio (1553-99)

19. O voi che sospirate

20. Solo e pensoso

Luzzasco Luzzaschi (c.1540-1607)

21. Quivi sospiri pianti

22. Itene mie querele

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]]> Jürg Frey: Voices https://www.exaudi.org.uk/product/jurg-frey-voices/ Fri, 28 Mar 2025 08:00:26 +0000 https://www.exaudi.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=730 Release Date: 2025

Label: Neu Records

EXAUDI makes the first recording of Swiss composer Jürg Frey's intimate and shimmering vocal music.

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]]> EXAUDI makes the first recording of Swiss composer Jürg Frey’s vocal music in collaboration with Catalan label Neu Records.  Frey writes incredibly beautiful and intimate music that soothes the mind and soul. His sound varies from sparse, single-voiced passages to soaring and rich harmonic language that shines and glistens – a listening experience both meditative and gently euphoric.

1-4: Out of Chorales (2017-18)

5: Polyphonie der Wörter (1998)

6: Shadow and Echo and Jade (2014-16)

7: Landscape of Echoes (2019)

8: Blue Bird’s Tune (2021-22)

9: Because I could not stop for Death (2021-22)

Jurg Frey (b.1953)

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]]> Catherine Lamb: Parallaxis Forma https://www.exaudi.org.uk/product/catherine-lamb-parallaxis-forma/ Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:05:17 +0000 https://www.exaudi.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=449 Release Date: 2023
Label: Another Timbre

EXAUDI contributes one track to Explore Ensemble’s portrait disc of Cat Lamb, also featuring mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean.

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]]> EXAUDI contributes one track to Explore Ensemble’s portrait disc of Cat Lamb, also featuring mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean.

Catherine Lamb color residua (with Explore Ensemble)

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]]> Fumio Yasuda: The Games Must Go On https://www.exaudi.org.uk/product/fumio-yasuda-the-games-must-go-on/ Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:03:35 +0000 https://www.exaudi.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=447 Release Date: 2023
Label: Winter & Winter

For Stefan Winter’s installation The Games Must Go On, created for the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics, Fumio Yasuda wrote a new work for 6 voices and multi-tracked clarinets.

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]]> For Stefan Winter’s installation The Games Must Go On, created for the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics, Fumio Yasuda wrote a new work for 6 voices and multi-tracked clarinets. The work was later released on this recording, with clarinettist Gareth Davis.

Fumio Yasuda The Games Must Go On (with Gareth Davis, clarinet)

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]]> Christopher Fox: Trostlieder https://www.exaudi.org.uk/product/christopher-fox-trostlieder/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 14:01:23 +0000 https://www.exaudi.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=445 Release Date: 2022
Label: Kairos

A suite of German motets, steeped in the music of Heinrich Schütz and the poetry of Martin Opitz.

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]]> A suite of German motets, steeped in the music of Heinrich Schütz and the poetry of Martin Opitz. A winsome English partsong, setting Shakespeare’s contemporary Edmund Spenser; three angular Italian madrigals intercutting Gramsci with Dante; and an experimental score on a text of Yeats. A thrilling whirlwind of vocal sound, scattering syllables from Wordsworth’s Prelude like dead leaves in a Cumbrian gale. Such are the bewilderingly diverse vocal works on this album, EXAUDI‘s third dedicated to the music of English composer Christopher Fox.

Christopher Fox
Trostlieder
 A Spousal Verse
 Canti del carcere
 Preluding
 Song (24.iv.1916)

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]]> James Weeks: Book of Flames and Shadows https://www.exaudi.org.uk/product/james-weeks-book-of-flames-and-shadows/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 13:59:40 +0000 https://www.exaudi.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=443 Release Date: 2022
Label: Winter & Winter

Book of Flames and Shadows is a continuous sequence of music lasting about an hour, incorporating two pieces by James Weeks and madrigals by Jacques Arcadelt (1507-68).

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]]> Book of Flames and Shadows is a continuous sequence of music lasting about an hour, incorporating two pieces by James Weeks and madrigals by Jacques Arcadelt (1507-68). Its theme is the discovering, or awakening, of the sensual and erotic power of the spoken word, and its transformation into song, through the love poetry of Petrarch (1304-74) and his later imitators, including Pietro Bembo (1470-1547).

James Weeks Fantasie di strani e dolci misteri della parola (with Sophie Appleton, violin)
Jacques Arcadelt Madrigals from Il primo libro de’ madrigali
James Weeks Libro di fiammelle e ombre

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]]> Kevin Raftery: Second Child https://www.exaudi.org.uk/product/kevin-raftery-second-child/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 13:56:57 +0000 https://www.exaudi.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=441 Release Date: 2022
Label: Métier

EXAUDI contributes four tracks to this portrait album of British composer Kevin Raftery.

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]]> EXAUDI contributes four tracks to this portrait album of British composer Kevin Raftery.

Kevin Raftery
Three English Poems
Dimitte nobis

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]]> Alex Hills: OutsideIn https://www.exaudi.org.uk/product/alex-hills-outsidein/ Fri, 31 Jan 2020 13:54:42 +0000 https://www.exaudi.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=439 Release Date: 2020
Label: OutsideIn

EXAUDI contributes one track to this portrait album of British composer Alex Hills, which also includes the violin concerto OutsideIn.

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]]> EXAUDI contributes one track to this portrait album of British composer Alex Hills, which also includes the violin concerto OutsideIn. Flatland is a musical response to the famous Victorian novella of the same name by E.A. Abbott.

Alex Hills Flatland

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]]> Evan Johnson: Forms of Complaint https://www.exaudi.org.uk/product/evan-johnson-forms-of-complaint/ Fri, 31 Jan 2020 13:52:59 +0000 https://www.exaudi.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=437 Release Date: 2020
Label: Kairos

EXAUDI contributes one track to the first portrait album of American Evan Johnson.

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]]> EXAUDI contributes one track to the first portrait album of American Evan Johnson.

Evan Johnson
colophons (“That other that ich not whenne”), reflecting pool /
monument (with Mieko Kanno, violin)

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