Events
The Snowman - St Martin-in-the-Fields
Take a break from the Christmas shopping with this special performance of Howard Blake's The Snowman for orchestra and narrator, performed in the beautiful setting of St. Martin-in-the-Fields overlooking Trafalgar Square.
Opus Anglicanum: Figgy Pudding
A popular annual programme of festive readings and songs for everyone. Christmas music from England, France, Germany and even Australia with readings from T S Eliot, Spike Milligan, Thomas Hardy and others.
Opus Anglicanum: Mediaeval Carols
One of Opus Anglicanum's most popular programmes. Mediaeval music and texts combine in a very special Christmas concert.
Opus Anglicanum: Mediaeval Carols at Wells Cathedral
One of Opus Anglicanum's most popular events is their annual Mediaeval Carols at Wells Cathedral. Ancient texts and music by candlelight create a very special festive atmosphere.
Opus Anglicanum: Christmas Concert
Festive music and readings for all the family in the beautiful Cotswold town of Chipping Campden.
Peter and the Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood
Zeb will narrate Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and Roald Dahl's Little Red Riding Hood with the Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leo Geyer in a special family concert at the Wimbledon International Music Festival.
Opus Anglicanum: The Great and Wide Sea
Opus Anglicanum will perform their latest commmisson, a setting of Coleridge's famous The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Lynne Plowman. It will be partnered with Sally Beamish's haunting Sea Psalm. At Bosham Church, nr. Chichester.
Opus Anglicanum: The Great and Wide Sea
Opus Anglicanum will perform their latest commission, a setting of Coleridge's famous The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Lynne Plowman. It will be partnered with Sally Beamish's haunting Sea Psalm.
I Must Go Down to the Seas Again
Zeb will join an an evening of song, dance, comedy and magic in aid of the Great Yarmouth Port Chaplaincy which offers mental and physical support to Seafarers from around the world.
Opus Anglicanum at the Two Moors Festival
Opus Anglicanum will be performing their programme Song of Angels at the Two Moors Festival. A celebration of angels as invisible companions and guardians, as spiritual warriors, muses of creativity and as messengers, heralds, and healers. With specially composed music by Diana Burrell and Howard Skempton.
The Dickens of a Literary Walk: Celebrating 50 Years of The Highgate Society
A tour of Highgate's literary connections led by local historian, Ruth Hazeldine, with readings by Zeb Soanes.
Opus Anglicanum: The Great and Wide Sea (PREMIERE)
Opus Anglicanum will premiere their latest commission, a setting of Coleridge's famous The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Lynne Plowman. It will be partnered with Sally Beamish's haunting Sea Psalm. Mercer's Hall, City of London.
Opus Anglicanum: A Midsummer Night's Dream
This entertaining sequence places the most beautiful moments from Shakespeare’s popular and masque-like play, with music from Renaissance Italy, Elizabethan London and works by Elgar, Schubert, and Brahms. A feature is Gordon Crosse’s Spring Awakening of 2009, setting Bottom’s Dream from the play. The sequence concludes with Wilbye’s exquisite Draw on Sweet Night.
Recollections of Summer in Words and Music at The Actor's Church
The Bibby Sisters with Carole Boyd and Zeb Soanes celebrate summer in an evening of Words and Music (including extracts from Walton's Façade) at The Actors' Church, Covent Garden.
The News Quiz - BBC Radio 4
Miles Jupp is back in the chair, with Zeb reading the news for a new series of Radio 4's much loved satirical comedy show as an esteemed panel of guests take on the big (and not so big) stories of the week.
Opus Anglicanum: Bach Orgelbüchlein with Richard Stephens, Organ
This special concert explores Lutheran chorales both as sung texts and as subjects for Bach’s inventive preludes and is punctuated by three readings from the Lutheran pastor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Doctor Who: The Library in the Body
David Warner plays The Doctor with Zeb as the Keeper of the Great Library in a Doctor Who audio drama.
Opus Anglicanum: David Jones, 1916 Mamet Wood
The story of the 1916 Battle of Mamet Wood read from David Jones’ poem In Parenthesis of 1937. Music from Schubert, Palestrina, Josquin and two new works: Cheryl Frances-Hoad In the crypt of the wood, composed with inspiration from David Jones’ drawing Vexilla Regis. Wain Park's Sequence: In Parenthesis brings together snatches of tunes referred to by David Jones in the poem, including Welsh and English songs and hymns, music hall and soldiers trench songs.
Opus Anglicanum: Mediaeval Music for The New Chaucer Society
In association with the New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, which is being held at Queen Mary 11-15 July 2016, Opus Anglicanum (five male singers who perform unaccompanied musical and narrative sequences) will present a sequence on St Radegund and Venantius Fortunatus, including new compositions by Cheryl Frances-Hoad.
Norfolk Children's Book Festival
Zeb will read extracts from much-loved Children's Books at the 5th Norfolk Children's Book Festival
Poetry Please - BBC Radio 4
Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry on various themes, chosen by Radio 4 listeners, read by Zeb Soanes.
Poetry Please - BBC Radio 4
Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry on various themes, chosen by Radio 4 listeners, read by Zeb Soanes.
iPM 'Your News' - BBC Radio 4
iPM is presented by Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. Each week listeners send it their single sentence of news about their week, complied into a minute bulletin, read this week by Zeb Soanes.
iPM 'Your News' - BBC Radio 4
iPM is presented by Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. Each week listeners send it their single sentence of news about their week, complied into a minute bulletin, read this week by Zeb Soanes.
Opus Anglicanum: A Song for a Festival - Canto Canto, Festa Festa
A celebration concert featuring Gordon Crosse's Spring Awakening for narrator and singers, setting the text from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Highgate Literary Walk
Led by Highgate historian Ruth Hazeldine with readings from Zeb Soanes featuring insights into the lives of famous literary figures in Highgate. Ticket includes a cream tea.
All Mouth and Trousers - BBC Radio 4
Zeb plays Derek Nimmo in the story behind the BBC's hit TV comedy series All Gas and Gaiters.
Opus Anglicanum: Merrily Sing Our Harvest Home
A celebration for Droitwich Concert Club in their final season after 43 years of music making. A joyful and festive sequence of music by Handel, Byrd, Purcell, Sullivan, Parry, Elgar, Folksong and Music Hall, with entertaining and enlivening readings on music and celebration from Dickens, Burton, Milton, Lear and Johnson.
Opus Anglicanum: Angels
A celebration of angels as invisible companions and guardians, as spiritual warriors, muses of creativity and as messengers, heralds, and healers. Music specially composed for Opus Anglicanum by Diana Burrell and Howard Skempton.