Golden Radio

04/07/2024

Here's what happened last week in St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne. This link takes you straight to the music, but I ramble on in words as well at the beginning of the video, talking about "composing in real time"...

Composer and pianist Antony Pitts plays a long-form improvisation on his early virtuoso work, Dance of Redeemed Creation, as part of the 2024 Lunchtime Conce...

13/09/2022

Back in 2002, when our radio documentary Golden Rule* was made for the BBC, the cultural gulf of fifty years since the accession and then coronation was already huge; things have moved even more swiftly over the last two decades. Some things, however, haven't changed for centuries – singing in harmony, and sharing at the table, as here with TONUS PEREGRINUS. God save the King.
*available to contributors and researchers in our private archive: https://www.golden.radio/documentaries/c/4/i/59941419/golden-rule

The album VINUM & MUSICA (2021) is availableat Hyperion:https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_1EMVEMat Bandcamp:https://abc.tonusperegrinus.co.uk/al...

08/01/2022

Our radiophonic archive is now accessible to authorized researchers: https://www.golden.radio/

Specializing in unique “symphonies for radio” for the BBC and elsewhere in the Gouldian tradition of “heterophonic radio” – made by winners of the Radio Academy BT Award and the Prix Italia Music Prize

13/02/2021

Antony Pitts introduces Olivier Messiaen's song-cycle, Harawi, from the piano. Next performance with Principal Artist Amy Moore - Soprano is presented by The Song Company for Valentine's Day 2021 in Mosman Art Gallery at 3pm – tickets here: https://the.song.company/events-calendar/c/0/i/53050382/chant-damour-et-de-mort-sydney

20/06/2020

Antony Pitt aims to convert us to the joys and subtleties of choral music.

11/06/2020

Such a good album – buy it while it's on special offer from Hyperion Records: https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA67575
Schola Cantorum of Oxford conducted by
with choral pyrotechnics from Antony Pitts to Francis John Dolben Pott

In 1978 Schola Cantorum of Oxford—the university’s acclaimed chamber choir—recorded Tippett’s Five Negro Spirituals from A child of our time. Sir Michael wrote, in his sleeve note accompanying the LP release on L’Oiseau Lyre (DSLO 25, re-issued on CD Belart 461 628-2, no longer available):...

09/04/2020

Something to read and listen to over the next three days: http://1equalmusic.com/diatessaron.html

17 Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Yeshua, saying to him, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”

13/08/2018

This is an extraordinary immersive experience - hearing The Song Company singing Antony Pitts's 'Thou wast present...' from inside the circle of singers!
http://the.song.company/LIVE/In-illo-tempore/

09/08/2018

clarity, proportion, integrity!

21/06/2018

Guillaume de Machaut, and hero of one of the strangest radiogenic journeys to grace BBC Radio 3's trailblazing series, Virtual Strangers - by Antony Pitts and Richard Gaskell. The journey continues: The Book of the True Story is now on stage down under, sung and played with idiosyncratic style by The Song Company.

Antony Pitts shares his affair of the heart with 14th-century poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut.

13/05/2018

An oratorio for our times by Antony Pitts remixed with Biblical narration by David Suchet, Jerusalem-Yerushalayim is an extraordinary musical cross between Handel’s Messiah, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, and classic rock anthems, and tells simply but powerfully the Old Testament story of Jerusa...

25/04/2018

11/02/2017

from 16 February in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Newcastle, Richmond, and Wollongong!

The Song Company's opening show for 2017 investigates the life and art of one of last century's most enigmatic composers.

19/11/2016

www.patmoscarols.com new website for 2016 - Web Design by 1equalmusic

The Patmos Book of Carols

14/11/2016

Sing with The Song Company: 23-28 Jan 2017, Sydney, Australia

This is an exceptional opportunity for individual and professional development, open to singers at varying career stages;
participants will also be considered for future mainstage and education projects.

04/11/2016

Antony Pitts was born in 1969 and is one of several composers in his family. He wrote his first pieces down at the age of 8, and sang as a treble in the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace, and in a band called Room 33 while at Tiffin Boys’ School. At New College, Oxford he was an Academic Scholar an...