De Profundis
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De Profundis is a male-voice group that sings Renaissance polyphony, currently engaged in a 12-year project to record Morales's complete masses and Magnificats
News from our pals at Cambridge Early Music.
Armonico Consort: The Forgotten Scarlatti
Fri 6 Mar - Trinity Chapel
Combining the grandeur of Bach & Handel with the complexity of Gabrielli & Tallis, this programme of F. Scarlatti’s rarely performed masterpieces is not to be missed!
Tix: bit.ly/49lYeTP
Armonico Consort: The Forgotten Scarlatti
Fri 6 Mar - Trinity Chapel
Combining the grandeur of Bach & Handel with the complexity of Gabrielli & Tallis, this programme of F. Scarlatti’s rarely performed masterpieces is not to be missed!
Tix: bit.ly/49lYeTP
January 26, 2026 at 5:01 PM
News from our pals at Cambridge Early Music.
Armonico Consort: The Forgotten Scarlatti
Fri 6 Mar - Trinity Chapel
Combining the grandeur of Bach & Handel with the complexity of Gabrielli & Tallis, this programme of F. Scarlatti’s rarely performed masterpieces is not to be missed!
Tix: bit.ly/49lYeTP
Armonico Consort: The Forgotten Scarlatti
Fri 6 Mar - Trinity Chapel
Combining the grandeur of Bach & Handel with the complexity of Gabrielli & Tallis, this programme of F. Scarlatti’s rarely performed masterpieces is not to be missed!
Tix: bit.ly/49lYeTP
We've got a bumper year in 2026, with *two* Morales albums lined up!
The first will feature both the L'homme armé masses, and will be out on 1st May.
The second comprises the Missa Ave Maria (the Mass with no altos...!), Magnificat tertii toni, and Missa Si bona suscepimus, coming out on 6th Nov.
The first will feature both the L'homme armé masses, and will be out on 1st May.
The second comprises the Missa Ave Maria (the Mass with no altos...!), Magnificat tertii toni, and Missa Si bona suscepimus, coming out on 6th Nov.
January 22, 2026 at 5:01 PM
We've got a bumper year in 2026, with *two* Morales albums lined up!
The first will feature both the L'homme armé masses, and will be out on 1st May.
The second comprises the Missa Ave Maria (the Mass with no altos...!), Magnificat tertii toni, and Missa Si bona suscepimus, coming out on 6th Nov.
The first will feature both the L'homme armé masses, and will be out on 1st May.
The second comprises the Missa Ave Maria (the Mass with no altos...!), Magnificat tertii toni, and Missa Si bona suscepimus, coming out on 6th Nov.
We're delighted to announce that De Profundis has signed with CORO Records as one of their 4 Principal Artists alongside The Sixteen, I Fagiolini, & the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford.
The first release on CORO (scheduled 1st May) will be an album of Morales's L'homme arme Masses.
cororecords.com
The first release on CORO (scheduled 1st May) will be an album of Morales's L'homme arme Masses.
cororecords.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:02 PM
We're delighted to announce that De Profundis has signed with CORO Records as one of their 4 Principal Artists alongside The Sixteen, I Fagiolini, & the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford.
The first release on CORO (scheduled 1st May) will be an album of Morales's L'homme arme Masses.
cororecords.com
The first release on CORO (scheduled 1st May) will be an album of Morales's L'homme arme Masses.
cororecords.com
The news comes out tomorrow...
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January 19, 2026 at 5:02 PM
The news comes out tomorrow...
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At the start of the year we promised you some exciting news.
We'll be making an announcement on Tuesday.
Stay tuned.
We'll be making an announcement on Tuesday.
Stay tuned.
January 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM
At the start of the year we promised you some exciting news.
We'll be making an announcement on Tuesday.
Stay tuned.
We'll be making an announcement on Tuesday.
Stay tuned.
Our chums at CMF are hosting Tenebrae at a concert in Trinity College Chapel on Fri 13th Feb.
Highlights include the choral version of Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Poulenc’s penitential motets, and Frank Martin’s deeply personal Mass for Double Choir. Yum
cambridgemusicfestival.co.uk/event/tenebr...
Highlights include the choral version of Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Poulenc’s penitential motets, and Frank Martin’s deeply personal Mass for Double Choir. Yum
cambridgemusicfestival.co.uk/event/tenebr...
January 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Our chums at CMF are hosting Tenebrae at a concert in Trinity College Chapel on Fri 13th Feb.
Highlights include the choral version of Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Poulenc’s penitential motets, and Frank Martin’s deeply personal Mass for Double Choir. Yum
cambridgemusicfestival.co.uk/event/tenebr...
Highlights include the choral version of Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Poulenc’s penitential motets, and Frank Martin’s deeply personal Mass for Double Choir. Yum
cambridgemusicfestival.co.uk/event/tenebr...
Now spinning: Dufay's Mass of St James the Greater - Binchois Consort / Kirkman.
After all the over-indulgence of recent weeks, it's good to get back to simple pleasures like this. A glorious musical palate-cleanser.
After all the over-indulgence of recent weeks, it's good to get back to simple pleasures like this. A glorious musical palate-cleanser.
Dufay: Music for St James the Greater | Hyperion Streaming
This is a glorious disc: superb performances of truly wonderful music. St James the Greater, Apostle of Christ, foster son of the Virgin Mary, brother of St John the Evangelist, and indelibly—if…
www.hyperion-streaming.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Now spinning: Dufay's Mass of St James the Greater - Binchois Consort / Kirkman.
After all the over-indulgence of recent weeks, it's good to get back to simple pleasures like this. A glorious musical palate-cleanser.
After all the over-indulgence of recent weeks, it's good to get back to simple pleasures like this. A glorious musical palate-cleanser.
2025 was a good year for us - a couple of great gigs and the release of Morales vol. 2 to critical acclaim. Woo-hoo!
2026 is now shaping up to be even better. Exciting news to come soon. Watch this space!
2026 is now shaping up to be even better. Exciting news to come soon. Watch this space!
January 5, 2026 at 5:01 PM
2025 was a good year for us - a couple of great gigs and the release of Morales vol. 2 to critical acclaim. Woo-hoo!
2026 is now shaping up to be even better. Exciting news to come soon. Watch this space!
2026 is now shaping up to be even better. Exciting news to come soon. Watch this space!
To all our friends, both near and far, thank you for your engagement and support in 2025.
Very best wishes for 2026 from De Profundis HQ!
Very best wishes for 2026 from De Profundis HQ!
January 1, 2026 at 1:15 PM
To all our friends, both near and far, thank you for your engagement and support in 2025.
Very best wishes for 2026 from De Profundis HQ!
Very best wishes for 2026 from De Profundis HQ!
Here in the northern hemisphere, the days are at their shortest. We can dream of a 3-month residency in Australia at the end of next year, but in the meantime here's Esquivel's Compline hymn 'Te lucis ante terminum' which asks God for his protection during the night.
Juan Esquivel, De Profundis, Eamonn Dougan - Te lucis ante terminum
Listen to Te lucis ante terminum by Juan Esquivel, De Profundis, Eamonn Dougan.
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December 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Here in the northern hemisphere, the days are at their shortest. We can dream of a 3-month residency in Australia at the end of next year, but in the meantime here's Esquivel's Compline hymn 'Te lucis ante terminum' which asks God for his protection during the night.
Merry Christmas, one and all!
Anyone fancy a Requiem...?
Anyone fancy a Requiem...?
December 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Merry Christmas, one and all!
Anyone fancy a Requiem...?
Anyone fancy a Requiem...?
People of the world!
We present your Christmas Eve Eve soundtrack.
You're welcome.
We present your Christmas Eve Eve soundtrack.
You're welcome.
Sacred treasures of Christmas – A sequence of music for Christmas, Epiphany and Candlemas | Hyperion Streaming
A celebration of Christmas from the Nativity through to Candlemas, in music from across sixteenth-century Europe: Renaissance polyphony at its finest.
www.hyperion-streaming.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
People of the world!
We present your Christmas Eve Eve soundtrack.
You're welcome.
We present your Christmas Eve Eve soundtrack.
You're welcome.
Hugh Cutting - "one of the most exciting countertenors of recent times" (Gramomphone) - can be heard on our disc of music by Juan Esquivel. Here's Esquivel's exciting Advent motet Veni Domine, with a particularly good alto section!
(HC pic by Olivia da Costa Photography)
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(HC pic by Olivia da Costa Photography)
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December 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Hugh Cutting - "one of the most exciting countertenors of recent times" (Gramomphone) - can be heard on our disc of music by Juan Esquivel. Here's Esquivel's exciting Advent motet Veni Domine, with a particularly good alto section!
(HC pic by Olivia da Costa Photography)
hyperion.lnk.to/cda68326_05
(HC pic by Olivia da Costa Photography)
hyperion.lnk.to/cda68326_05
Interesting.
If Stayin' Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century
From the BG Manuscript, ca. 1570
Stayin' Alive, words and melody in their original form by Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb
Arrangement by Jonas Wolf
Performed by Tabea Bös and Jonas Wolf
Audio Mix…
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December 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Interesting.
Spotted in Cambridge at the weekend. Something for De Profundis to do when we run out of Morales?
December 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Spotted in Cambridge at the weekend. Something for De Profundis to do when we run out of Morales?
Our Morales Requiem album is in Gramophone's 'Critics' Choice' - the round-up of their favourite albums of 2025!
"[De Profundis's] tight ensemble, focussed musical sensibility [and] tonal weight enhances the intensity of Morales's sombre contemplations"
Christmas has come early to De Profundis HQ!
"[De Profundis's] tight ensemble, focussed musical sensibility [and] tonal weight enhances the intensity of Morales's sombre contemplations"
Christmas has come early to De Profundis HQ!
December 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Our Morales Requiem album is in Gramophone's 'Critics' Choice' - the round-up of their favourite albums of 2025!
"[De Profundis's] tight ensemble, focussed musical sensibility [and] tonal weight enhances the intensity of Morales's sombre contemplations"
Christmas has come early to De Profundis HQ!
"[De Profundis's] tight ensemble, focussed musical sensibility [and] tonal weight enhances the intensity of Morales's sombre contemplations"
Christmas has come early to De Profundis HQ!
Obviously we wouldn't want to brag, but it's quite something for a really niche outfit like us to have a track on Spotify that will shortly be hitting 16,000 streams.
I wonder when Graham Norton will be getting in touch.
I wonder when Graham Norton will be getting in touch.
Circumdederunt me
Cristobal de Morales, De Profundis, Eamonn Dougan · Morales: Requiem a 5 & Officium defunctorum · Song · 2025
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December 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Obviously we wouldn't want to brag, but it's quite something for a really niche outfit like us to have a track on Spotify that will shortly be hitting 16,000 streams.
I wonder when Graham Norton will be getting in touch.
I wonder when Graham Norton will be getting in touch.
Peter Hicks (L), a De Profundis regular, has been announced as the new 1st alto with the King's Singers, starting in September next year. He'll be joining 2nd alto, and fellow De Profundis alumnus, Ed Button (R). We're rather proud of this. Go King's Singers, and go us!
#featherinthecap
#featherinthecap
December 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Peter Hicks (L), a De Profundis regular, has been announced as the new 1st alto with the King's Singers, starting in September next year. He'll be joining 2nd alto, and fellow De Profundis alumnus, Ed Button (R). We're rather proud of this. Go King's Singers, and go us!
#featherinthecap
#featherinthecap
This Sunday is the First Sunday of Advent. But don't panic. Calm yourself with Esquivels's gentle, beautiful (and liturgically appropriate) Alma redemptoria mater.
Juan Esquivel, De Profundis, Eamonn Dougan - Alma redemptoris mater
Listen to Alma redemptoris mater by Juan Esquivel, De Profundis, Eamonn Dougan.
hyperion.lnk.to
November 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This Sunday is the First Sunday of Advent. But don't panic. Calm yourself with Esquivels's gentle, beautiful (and liturgically appropriate) Alma redemptoria mater.
Michael started singing Baritone with us this year. Having sung with King’s College Choir as a Lay Clerk, Jesus College as an undergraduate, and Truro Cathedral as a Choral Scholar, he is now studying for an MSc in Bioinformatics at King’s College London, and deps across London when he can.
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Michael started singing Baritone with us this year. Having sung with King’s College Choir as a Lay Clerk, Jesus College as an undergraduate, and Truro Cathedral as a Choral Scholar, he is now studying for an MSc in Bioinformatics at King’s College London, and deps across London when he can.
Some lovely feedback from a punter:
"The Office for the Dead/Requiem CD arrived this morning and I have been listening to it ever since. It is just exquisite."
Thank you!
"The Office for the Dead/Requiem CD arrived this morning and I have been listening to it ever since. It is just exquisite."
Thank you!
November 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Some lovely feedback from a punter:
"The Office for the Dead/Requiem CD arrived this morning and I have been listening to it ever since. It is just exquisite."
Thank you!
"The Office for the Dead/Requiem CD arrived this morning and I have been listening to it ever since. It is just exquisite."
Thank you!
Stuck for a Christmas present idea for your polyphony-lovin' friend? Look no further! Our online shop has all our recordings available, even the ones that are no longer in the shops.
Problem solved! You're welcome.
www.deprofundis.org.uk/shop/
Problem solved! You're welcome.
www.deprofundis.org.uk/shop/
November 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Stuck for a Christmas present idea for your polyphony-lovin' friend? Look no further! Our online shop has all our recordings available, even the ones that are no longer in the shops.
Problem solved! You're welcome.
www.deprofundis.org.uk/shop/
Problem solved! You're welcome.
www.deprofundis.org.uk/shop/
Exciting times! Just received the first edit of Morales CD4 - Missa Ave Maria, Missa Si bona suscepimus and the Magnificat tertii toni. Now to listen hard and get it perfect.
November 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Exciting times! Just received the first edit of Morales CD4 - Missa Ave Maria, Missa Si bona suscepimus and the Magnificat tertii toni. Now to listen hard and get it perfect.
Otd 1549 Pope Paul III died. Morales dedicated his 2nd Book of Masses to him & boasted the Pope had personally appointed him to the Papal Choir.
In honour of the old guy here's Morales' beautiful funeral motet Circumdederunt me, opening track of our Morales Requiem album.
hyperion.lnk.to/cda68467_01
In honour of the old guy here's Morales' beautiful funeral motet Circumdederunt me, opening track of our Morales Requiem album.
hyperion.lnk.to/cda68467_01
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Otd 1549 Pope Paul III died. Morales dedicated his 2nd Book of Masses to him & boasted the Pope had personally appointed him to the Papal Choir.
In honour of the old guy here's Morales' beautiful funeral motet Circumdederunt me, opening track of our Morales Requiem album.
hyperion.lnk.to/cda68467_01
In honour of the old guy here's Morales' beautiful funeral motet Circumdederunt me, opening track of our Morales Requiem album.
hyperion.lnk.to/cda68467_01
A 5-star review from Musica magazine (Italy). "Choice of the Month"
"A performance of the highest calibre: the choir is a compact, mellow, and homogeneous ensemble. More engaging than Savall's celebrated 1992 album. Dougan's conducting is meditative and mystical. An album I highly recommend."
"A performance of the highest calibre: the choir is a compact, mellow, and homogeneous ensemble. More engaging than Savall's celebrated 1992 album. Dougan's conducting is meditative and mystical. An album I highly recommend."
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A 5-star review from Musica magazine (Italy). "Choice of the Month"
"A performance of the highest calibre: the choir is a compact, mellow, and homogeneous ensemble. More engaging than Savall's celebrated 1992 album. Dougan's conducting is meditative and mystical. An album I highly recommend."
"A performance of the highest calibre: the choir is a compact, mellow, and homogeneous ensemble. More engaging than Savall's celebrated 1992 album. Dougan's conducting is meditative and mystical. An album I highly recommend."