Papagena – Tomorrow Is Today – Songs Of Love Beauty & The

SOMM Recordings has had the good fortune to add to it’s wide-ranging catalogue the “extraordinary voices” (BBC Radio 3)of the all-female a cappella vocal quintet Papagena these past few years. Formed in 2015, the ensemble is made up of sopranos: Elizabeth Drury, Imogen Ram-Prasad, and Suzzie Vango; mezzo: Shivani Rattan; and alto: Sarah Tenant-Flowers. What distinguishes Papagena is their gloriously adventurous programming, which defies pigeonholing: medieval, classical, folk, and contemporary music from around the world, juxtaposed with repertoire from Hildegard of Bingen to Katy Perry and all points in between. Papagena’s debut album, Nuns and Roses, was self-released in 2017. Their second, The Darkest Midnight, was released in 2018 by SOMM. Selected as MusicWeb International’s Recording of the Month, it reached No.6 in the classical charts and No.1 in Amazon’s classical download chart. In 2020, Papagena’s second release with SOMM was Hush!, a Recom