Chantage needs your help to record the first album dedicated exclusively to the choral music of Mårten Jansson, an emerging Swedish composer with a unique and beautiful style that deserves to be heard worldwide. We were immediately charmed by Jansson's music and were surprised to find that this Bärenreiter-published composer did not yet have an album dedicated to his music. We are excited for the opportunity to better disseminate Jansson's choral repertoire to wider audiences on our own record label, but in order to do this, we need your assistance. Funding this CD project would help cover the costs of:
We ran a crowdfunder campaign during October and successfully raised over £5,000 to help make the project a reality. We also completed the first recording session for this project at the end of the month, singing Jansson's Missa Popularis. You can see video of some of the session here. But we still need support to finish the project. You can pre-order the CD here. If you can donate to support the project, we'd be so grateful! Find out more about the project and hear some of the sublime music in our video:
Back in 2014, Chantage teamed up with the Aurora Orchestra to perform the world premiere of MELD, by Benedict Mason at the BBC Proms. Written specifically for the Royal Albert Hall, the performers used the entire space during the piece - and it was filmed with multiple cameras positioned around the hall.
Released this week, and available online until 4 July 2016, you can view the complete performance here: Chantage gave the UK premiere of Mårten Jansson’s 'Missa Popularis' in celebration of the Patronal Festival for St Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet Street, on Sunday 21 May 2016.
Joined by a string ensemble made up of members of the Orchestra of the City, Chantage was honoured by the presence of the composer at the special performance. Tickets are now on sale for the second of Chantage's Shakespeare-themed performances. Chantage are delighted to be performing with the Salomon Orchestra, widely described as London’s finest non-professional symphony orchestra.
Conducted by Graham Ross. Narrator: Sir Timothy Ackroyd. Chorus: Chantage. – Tchaikovsky – Fantasy Overture ‘Hamlet’ – Vaughan Williams – Three Shakespeare Songs (conducted by James Davey) – Delius – Walk To The Paradise Garden – Walton – Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario (Christopher Palmer arrangement) ![]() Over the last four and a half centuries, William Shakespeare’s work has inspired poets, artists and composers across the globe. In commemoration of his death in 1616, Chantage showcased settings to music of Shakespeare’s haunting and poignant poetry at St James' Piccadilly.. The concert featured, amongst other works, the Songs of Ariel by Swiss composer Frank Martin, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Three Shakespeare Songs and Finnish composer Jaakko Mäntyjärvi’s Four Shakespeare Songs. Chantage was joined by Slingshot Theatre, performing scenes from Shakespeare's plays. Miranda is a character in Shakespeare's play The Tempest, first performed around 1611. The play features a song by the character Ariel; this passage has been set to music many times and Chantage will be singing some of those settings. It is more commonly known as ‘Full Fathom Five. “Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell” from ‘Ariel’s song’ The Tempest Act 1, Scene ii ![]() Chantage are delighted to announce they will be joined by Christopher Hawes and Sarah Mardel from Slingshot Theatre, who will be performing excerpts from Shakespeare's works, at our next concert on 23 April 2016. About Slingshot Theatre Slingshot exist to make people laugh, to make people think and to engage people in the unique wonder of live theatre. We champion the use of half-mask, celebrate the surreal and are very ordered in our creation of anarchy. A reviewer writing about our first show Zanniskinheads described it as “like watching two delinquent children playing and fantasising”. He meant it as a criticism but we wear it as a badge. Theatre is play. In Shakespeare’s day actors weren’t called actors, they were called ‘players’. We go to watch a ‘play’. We sit in a building and imagine that what we are seeing is real. We imagine and we dream. Find out more about Slingshot Theatre on their website. Chantage was delighted to perform a selection of traditional and contemporary Christmas music for the annual Cancer Research UK legacy event.
The reportoire included O Magnum Mysterium by Ola Gjielo, First Snow by Bo Holten and A Spotless Rose by Howells. Chantage enjoyed tremendous success at the Malta International Choir Festival 2015, winning both secular and sacred trophies, a special award for best choreographed performance, the highest score of 96% of the Festival and the overall Grand Prix of Malta.
To celebrate that everyone can now marry the person they love, Chantage has recorded an album of unaccompanied choral music suitable for any wedding. From new compositions to arrangements of popular, classical and folk songs, all the music on the album has been carefully selected so it can be used in either civil ceremonies or church weddings "Chantage is a class act and this is a wonderful album, nicely conceived and beautifully performed. The collection is a great resource for brides and grooms and choir directors looking for something different for a wedding." - Amazon reviewer Chantage shared the stage at the Holy Redeemer, Exmouth Market with The Fourth Choir for a joint performance the day after the UK elections. The choirs performed several joint numbers, including Faire is the Heaven for double choir, by William Harris. Chantage performed songs from their recent Album 'My Promise', and selections from Frank Martin Mass for double choir.
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