Pleased to discover that my book on the relationship between Latin and English poetry in the literary culture of early modern England is now available in paperback (for nearly £100 less than the hardback!) cambridge.org/fr/universityp…

Out now! We're thrilled to announce that our debut CD, Music from the Peterhouse, Cambridge Partbooks, is released today on the Naxos Records label. It's available to purchase and stream from all major platforms Spotify Apple Music LISTEN NOW: naxos.lnk.to/8574700AC #NewonNaxos

So proud of Peterhouse Choir and all they've achieved, but especially today, when the choir's first ever album goes out on general release with Naxos Records - a disc of remarkable music from Peterhouse Cambridge Chapel in the 1630s. Listen here: naxos.lnk.to/8574700AC

Discerning friends have noted that I’ve been implicated in this week’s Private Eye. Wowza - I’ve nearly made it! 🤩

Today’s track from our new album with Naxos Records; Williams Smith’s Responses are sung regularly at Evensong, but have you ever heard his incredible festal setting of Psalm 85? Listen to the world premiere recording here: open.spotify.com/track/2hXPpZVH… #NowPlaying Peterhouse, Cambridge

Today, 2 tracks: one very familiar, the second more unusual. Thomas Wilson, about 18 when he became organist at Peterhouse, Cambridge , borrowed the opening of William #Byrd’s “Prevent us O Lord” and then takes off in his own fresh direction. Here’s Byrd: open.spotify.com/track/0r3TpY61…

Peterhouse, Cambridge And, for some déjà vu (déjà entendu?) here’s the 18 year old Wilson taking his lead from Byrd, note for note, in Peterhouse Chapel the 1630s: open.spotify.com/track/4XEVQuFf…

Inevitable, I suppose, but In Our Time won't be quite the same again: I feel so lucky to have snuck in at the eleventh hour for his final series

In addition to our new album from Naxos Records (which you can stream here: open.spotify.com/album/3EWD1qdX…), this month sees the publication of a new book about the Peterhouse Partbooks from Boydell & Brewer, edited by Perne Librarian Scott Mandelbrote:

If anyone is interested in a 20% discount for my Herbert and Music book, I've just received this flyer with a discount code: cambridge.org/se/universityp…

Does anyone have access to this Times article about In Our Time? I'd love to see it but it's behind a paywall - I gather our Herbert episode of In Our Time made it into their Top 15, which is lovely! #HumbleBragg Victoria Moul thetimes.com/culture/tv-rad…

The proofs of my book on mysticism and vegetal life have arrived:

🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 from BBC Music Magazine for our new album with Naxos Records! Praised for its “warmly blended account”, & the way it “catches winningly the bounding enthusiasm” of this repertoire; Simon Jackson “conducts sympathetically throughout” Buy/stream: naxos.lnk.to/8574700Na!prod…

Really quite pleased with this write-up for our first disc:

Our new Naxos Records album is a Recommended release from MusicWeb! FULL REVIEW HERE: musicwebinternational.com/2025/09/music-… LISTEN HERE: naxos.lnk.to/8574700AC Peterhouse, Cambridge

Unused sheet from a contemporary Belgian partbook used an endpapers in a 1558 edition of Luther’s works.  Currently on display in the ‘Sing Joyfully’ exhibition at Lambeth Palace Library.

Really rather lovely new Rutter introit, marrying Herbert's 'The Call' with Gibbons 'Song 13'

Really thrilled to see that St Martin's Voices have included this carol by the much missed James Whitbourn on their latest album from Resonus Classics, which I commissioned back in the dark days of Covid for Peterhouse Choir: open.spotify.com/track/3DR3HELk…