New Commissioned Music
The choir has commissioned eight new choral works:
- Sounds: Three Kandinsky Poems (1999) – David Sawer
- This Sceptr'd Isle (2005) – Paul Ayres
- Dreaming England (This Sceptr'd Isle) (2005) – Peter McGarr
- Tentatio (2006) – Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
- Their Lonely Betters (based on a poem by W. H. Auden) (2007) – James Lavino
- Love You Big as the Sky (a Lindisfarne Love Song) (2007) – Peter McGarr (broadcast in full on BBC Radio 3)
- Three Auden Settings (based on poems by W. H. Auden) (2008) - James Lavino
- Visitations (text adapted by James Lavino from the Book of Ezekiel) (2010) - James Lavino
The two works commissioned in 2005 entitled This Sceptr'd Isle may be the only settings for choir based on the speech in William Shakespeare's King Richard II, Act 2 scene 1.
Tentatio, Love You Big as the Sky and Visitations were commissioned for the Tallis Festival, and are 40-part unaccompanied works inspired by Thomas Tallis' Spem in alium.
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