Elinor Cooper

Journalist, BBC Music Magazine

Elinor Cooper is a singer and choral conductor working in South West England. She holds an MMus in choral conducting from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and is now the music director of Bristol Singers, Collegium Singers, UWE Singers and assistant conductor of Bristol Youth Choir. She is the former editorial assistant of BBC Music Magazine.

Bien que l’amour… Airs sérieux et à boire

This excellent recording from Les Arts Florissants celebrates the art of the Baroque ‘air’ through the works of five different composers from the reign of Louis XIV of France in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.