A wonderful new CD combining four of Jonathan Dove’s song cycles together for the first time on disc has been released by Naxos records. The disc brings together several leading singers – Claire Booth, Patricia Bardon, Nicky Spence – unified by the sensitive piano playing of Andrew Matthews Owen. The cycles included here are Out of Winter, Cut My Shadow, Ariel and All You Who Sleep Tonight which set poetry by Robert Tear, Federico Garcia Lorca, William Shakespeare and Vikram Seth respectively, and demonstrate Dove’s great affinity and love for the voice. More details about the recording can be found at the Naxos website.    

Jonathan recently gave an interview to Laurence Rose writing for The Ecologist in which he discussed the background to his new orchestral work Gaia Theory commissioned for the BBC Proms 2014. Read it here at The Ecologist website. The world premiere of Gaia Theory takes place in the Royal Albert Hall on 28 July 2014 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Josep Pons. The concert will be broadcast live on Radio 3 and filmed for broadcast on the BBC iPlayer.