Crowdfunding Campaign for Next Album JET SET!

Check out the brand new crowdfunding campaign for the next album JET SET!

Hot on the heels of GRAND TOUR Baroque Road Trip, Murphy and the NDA have recorded their next album, JET SET.

Moving from the Baroque into the heady, inspired atmosphere of the early classical period, the album follows members of the 18th century's musical JET SET as they do the glittering cultural epicentres of the time, including London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and St Petersburg. The album features symphonies by Abel and Reichardt, and arias by Paisiello, Storace and Mozart. In the double role of conductor and soloist, Murphy performs the Zelter Viola Concerto in E Flat.

Grammy award-winning sound-engineer Jean-Marie Geijsen and producer Karel Bruggeman (Polyhymnia) headed up the recording team for the May 2017 sessions in the historic Gothic Hall, Council of State in The Hague.

JET SET will be Murphy and the NDA's 7th album with Dutch label PENTATONE.

See the crowdfunding campaign for the album on Kickstarter

Simon Murphy during sessions for the new album, JET SET!

            

Egmont and Wallenstein

Simon Murphy has been asked to create and perform a special new production for the Netherlands' Council of State.

Commemorating the 450th anniversary of a seminal address of William the Silent to the Council of State in which the Dutch leader outlined his vision for what would become the Dutch constitution, Murphy's hand-tailored concert programme includes music, spoken word and arias from Reichardt's setting of Goethe's Egmont, from Schiller's Don Karlos and Wallensteins Tod, together with other vocal and orchestral works by Abel, Mozart and Beethoven.

             

The engagement follows previous performances by Murphy and the New Dutch Academy for the Council of State and for the Dutch royal family. Vice-President Donner will host the January 2015 event.

Gothic Project Premièred Successfully

Exploring the world of Polidori's The Vampyre, Macpherson's Ossian, Shelly's Frankenstein, and Apel and Laun's Tales of the Dead, conductor Simon Murphy's new Gothic Project brings the late 18th/early 19th century obsession with the supernatural to life with a new series of exciting guest conducting concert programmes and productions.

Murphy recently successfully premièred the first in his new series of Gothic symphonic programmes, Black Magic, in The Hague's Philipszaal, featuring German soprano Gudrun Sidonie Otto in the solo role.

           

Featuring arias and spoken word interwoven with orchestral works, Murphy's new Gothic productions include two orchestral concert programmes Black Magic and Great Scot, as well as the staged concert production, Gothic Stories. Designed for either modern symphony orchestras or large scale period instrument orchestras, Murphy's hand-tailored Gothic guest conducting productions are now available internationally in ready-to-go form.

Aimed at enriching programming, enhancing performance and engaging audiences, Murphy's new Gothic productions complement his growing series of successful guest conducting programmes which include the titles Empress of Pleasure, It's About Time, Ein Heldenleben, Composers' Paradise and Heaven on Earth. Related to the theme of the supernatural is a further, newly developed, concert programme entitled Once Upon a Time / Happily Ever After.

Watch videos of the first production
Rust Colma's Klage
Reichardt Macbeth

Gothic Programmes and Production Details (link)