The Stanford Society is deeply saddened to hear of the death of Sir Stephen Cleobury in his home town of York after a long illness. Sir Stephen assisted with the founding of The Stanford Society in 2007 and welcomed the society to a number of joint festivals with the Herbert Howells S

Much Ado About Nothing Music Charles Villiers Stanford Libretto Julian Sturgis Being performed on 23 and 24 August 2019 as part of the Leeds Opera Festival by Northern Opera Group We started Northern Opera Group in 2015 with the express intention of bringing artists and audiences bril

Hyperion Records is releasing a new CD of Stanford first recordings on August 2nd, 2019. (CDA 68283) The Ulster Orchestra is conducted by Howard Shelly in recordings of A Song of Agincourt, Fairy Day, Solemn March and Heroic Epilogue (Stanford’s orchestration of the second and third m

The Northern Opera Group (NOG) will present Stanford’s opera Much Ado About Nothing as part of the 2019 Leeds Opera Festival on August 23rd and 24th. The performances will take place in the Morley Town Hall in a suburb of Leeds We understand that this production will be with a special

SOMM Recordings is to release a double CD set of Stanford’s last opera, The Travelling Companion on September 27th, 2019. This is the first commercial recording of any of Stanford’s nine completed operas. The recording was made by SOMM during a live performance of the opera by the New

The Lyrita record labelhas released a first recording of Stanford’s Mass Via Victrix (Op. 173) in May 2019. (Lyrita SRCD 382).The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and their Chorus and soloists are conducted by Adrian Partington. The sixty-eight minute work was written by Stanford in 19

The 2019 Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester is to present Stanford’s Songs of Sea in a concert at Gloucester Cathedral with Ralph Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony on Friday August 2nd. 2019. Martyn Brabbins will conduct the Philharmonia Orchestra with Roderick Williams as baritone so

The Dante Quartet recorded Stanford’s String Quartets Numbers 1 and 6 on March 5th and 6th, 2019 at St. Nicholas Church in Thames Ditton to complete their cycle of Stanford’s String Quartets for SOMM Recordings. This is the first project to record the complete cycle of Stanford’s Quar

Stanford’s first opera, The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, is to be given in a concert performance at 5.00pm on Monday 28th October, 2019 at the Wexford Opera Festival in Ireland. The Veiled Prophet was completed in February 1879 and given its premier in Hanover, Germany on 6th February

Stanford à Paris On Saturday 6th October 2018, The Ensemble Orchestral will be performing Stanford’s Clarinet Concerto and Symphony No.7. The concert will take place at 8:30pm in Église Saint-Joseph-Artisan de Paris. The soloist will be Christelle Pochet and the conductor will b