The Charles Daniels Society was founded in 2005 to celebrate the life and work of the English tenor Charles Daniels. This website was set up in December 2008 and is still a work in progress; it is updated every time we get any news from the man himself, which is somewhat sporadic due to his extremely hectic schedule.
In the meantime, we'd like to welcome you warmly to the site. Hearty thanks to Donald Greig of the Orlando Consort for sending us our first article; more have been promised by other people, but he's the first to deliver. Click to read all about the Daniels Effect and the suspension of the normal laws of physics!
Latest news: We've moved the discussion forum to Proboards. Please see the contacts page for more information.
As you see, we now have a new sketch of Charles drawn by Katie Raynes. Katie is an American artist who specialises in manga-style drawings. If you would like to contact her, you are welcome to do so through the site and we will forward any messages.
Very many thanks to Tim Roberts, formerly of the Gabrieli Consort, for sending this splendid set of YouTube links in which he accompanies Charles on various keyboard instruments. Several of the pieces are his own compositions or arrangements. Enjoy these - we did.
We apologise for the delay in publishing the interview with Charles. Our original interviewer has unfortunately had to drop out, but we are very happy to announce that Charles will now be interviewed by S E G Hopkin, a freelance writer and journalist who (among other things) reviews books for the Spectator. We don't yet have a definite date for the interview due to Charles' schedule, but it should be on the site before Christmas 2010.
However, by way of some kind of consolation for the wait, we do (finally!) have a new picture of Charles on the Photos page, and we have also comprehensively updated the concert programme as far as April 2012. Special thanks to Charles for taking the time to organise what was quite a lot of information into a format that made it very easy to do this.
If you are having trouble finding a copy of Airs de Cour, which is no longer in production, you can buy an electronic version of the album - or individual tracks - direct from Linn Records. You can listen to the tracks before you buy. We highly recommend this album!