Variously: Andrew Swait, Sam Harris, trebles ; Elizabeth Atherton, Claire Booth, Ailish Tynan, sopranos ; Susan Bickley, Loré Lixenberg, Jean Rigby, mezzo-sopranos ; James Bowman, Michael Chance, Andrew Watts, counter-tenors ; Benjamin Hulett, Andrew Kennedy, Daniel Norman, tenors ; Omar Ebrahim, Richard Jackson, Stephan Loges, George Mosley, David Stout, Roderick Williams, baritones ; Andrew Ball, Iain Burnside, Michael Finnissy, Andrew Plant, Jonathan Powell, Huw Watkins, Andrew West, piano ; Lucy Wakeford, harp ; Jane Chapman, harpsichord ; Owen Gunnell, percussion ; Antonis Hatzinkolaou, guitar
Songs commissioned to celebrate the 20th anniversary of NMC.
Recorded 2008 August 21-September 17 Hall One, Kings Place, London 2008 September 30 and November 10 Cadogan Hall, London.
Sung in English (principally) and Latin (Dennehy).
The source / David Sawer (Booth, Bickley; Gunnell, tubular bells) (1:55) -- Upon St. George's Hill / Luke Bedford (Hulett, Hatzinikolaou) (1:36) -- Shining plain / Anthony Powers (Kennedy, Burnside) (3:55) -- Interlude / Gary Carpenter (Bickley, Chapman) (1:25) -- Tss-k-haa / Jonathan Cole (Williams) (3:11) -- Galliard, version 1 / Thomas Morley ; arranged by Colin Matthews (Burnside, Ball) (1:04) -- Those Fenny bells / Anthony Gilbert (Lixenberg, Chance, Gunnell) (3:56) -- Daisy's song / Philip Cashian (Stout, Burnside) (2:02) -- The bourne / Nicola Lefanu (Atherton, Wakeford) (3:27) -- Maiden in the moor / Nicholas Sackman (Hulett, Gunnell) (2:40) -- Houses and gardens in the heart of England / John White (Tynan, Burnside) (2:31) -- Galliard, version 2 / (1:28) -- This silence before light / Harrison Birtwistle ; arranged by Colin Matthews (Booth, Watkins) (2:39) -- Blist's hill / Julian Philips (Loges, Burnside) (2:38) -- Fin like a flower / Anna Meredith (Chance, Wakeford) (2:13) -- Cease sorrows now / Joe Duddell (Mosley, Burnside) Titania's song / Alison Bauld (Atherton, Ball) (3:34) -- Swift's epitaph / Donnacha Dennehy (Watts, Gunnell) (2:49) -- Nobody comes / Helen Grime (Rigby, Watkins) (3:26) -- A cat / John McCabe (Lixenberg, Hatzinikolaou) (2:59) -- Galliard, version 3 / (1:46) -- Outside Fort Tregantle / Michael Finnissy (Jackson, Finnissy) (3:17) -- Blaze of noon / Phillip Neil Martin (Booth, Ball) (4:01) -- Bands / Joe Cutler (Norman, Ball) Mouth of the dumb / James MacMillan (Swait, Harris, Wakeford) Stanzas 1814 / Jonathan Powell (Lixenberg, Powell) (2:34) -- Galliard, version 4 / Thomas Morley ; arranged by Colin Matthews (Wakeford, Hatzinikolaou, Chapman, Gunnell, marimba) (1:33) -- Easter / Hugh Wood (Kennedy, Burnside) (2:06)
Dirge from Cymbeline / Gordon Crosse (Stout, Wakeford) (3:19) -- A curious thirsty fly / David Horne (Norman, Ball) (2:19) -- Out of town / Rachel Leach (Tynan, Burnside) (3:21) -- English encouragement of art / Richard Causton (Booth, Bickley, Gunnell) (1:02) -- A swallow / David Blake (Rigby, Watkins) (2:58) -- Galliard, version 5 / Thomas Morley ; arranged by Colin Matthews (Wakeford, Hatzinikolaou, Chapman, Gunnell, marimba) (1:42) -- The beach in winter, Scratby (for Tess) / Robert Saxton (Loges, Burnside) (2:30) -- Lucretius / Julian Anderson (Booth, Gunnell) (3:14) -- Upon the cloudy night / James Dillon (Watts, Ball) (3:15) -- Easter Zunday / Sadie Harrison (Hulett, Ball) (3:49) -- Labyrinth to light / Peter Maxwell Davies (Swait, Plant) (2:43) -- With my whip / Edward Rushton (Mosley, Burnside) Raju Raghuvanshi is a ghost / Simon Holt (Ebrahim) (3:40) -- A winter's morning / Thea Musgrave (Tynan, Burnside) (3:20) -- Galliard, version 6 / Thomas Morley ; arranged by Colin Matthews (Wakeford, Hatzinikolaou, Chapman) (1:06) -- Darkness visible / Tarik O'Regan (Watts, Hulett, Wakeford) (3:46) -- A simple neo-Georgian summer / Emily Hall (Loges, Burnside) (1:43) -- A cause for wonder / Peter Wiegold (Watts, Burnside) (3:43) -- Wild clematis in winter / Emily Howard (Rigby, Watkins) (2:39) -- Poet and star / Bayan Northcott (Booth, Norman, Ball) (2:41) -- Galliard, version 7 / (1:47) -- Vocalise : Loch Lurgainn in the sunshine / Rupert Bawden (Rigby, Watkins) (2:15) -- A coat / Roderick Williams (Williams, Burnside) Know thy kings and queens / Julian Grant (Bickley, Burnside) (2:13) -- Because I breathe not love to everyone / Robert Keeley (Norman, Chapman) (3:12) -- Destroying beauty / Tansy Davies (Booth, Ball) (2:11) -- First known when lost / Philip Grange (Mosley, Burnside) (2:20) -- Galliard, version 8 / (1:25) -- Haiku / Bláar Kindsdottir (Bowman, Plant) (1:28)
Meet me in the green glen / Brian Elias (Bickley) (3:12) -- Music, thou queen of souls / Lloyd Moore (Tynan, Burnside) (1:44) -- Plover's peak / David Matthews (Hulett, Ball) (3:11) -- Spoken to a bronze head / Jeremy Dale Roberts (Bickley, Burnside) (4:06) -- The greenwood's lament / Jonathan Lloyd (Lixenberg, Stout, Hatzinikolaou) (3:14) -- Love song (for yoga) / Diana Burrell (Atherton, Ball) (1:43) -- Night and morning / John Casken (Norman, Ball) (3:17) -- Hour-glass / Daniel Basford (Chance, Wakeford) (3:35) -- Galliard, version 9 / Thomas Morley ; arranged by Colin Matthews (Wakeford, Hatzinikolaou, Chapman) (1:07) -- Proud Maisie / Huw Watkins (Booth, Watkins) (1:42) -- A recipe for whiskey / Lyell Cresswell (Loges, Gunnell) (3:28) -- Echo : hommage à Francis Poulenc / Michael Berkeley (Tynan, Burnside) (3:30) -- Lullaby / Roger Marsh (Booth, Gunnell) (2:46) -- Lake side / Dai Fujikura (Lixenberg) (2:37) -- English lullaby / Richard Baker (Bickley, Burnside) (2:43) -- The poison tree / Stephen Montague (Loges, Burnside) (2:39) -- She walks in beauty like the night / Judith Bingham (Kennedy, Wakeford) (3:33) -- Galliard, version 10 / (1:48) -- The true standard advanced / Christopher Fox (Norman, Gunnell) (2:15) -- That mighty heart / Roxanna Panufnik (Bickley, Burnside) (2:51) -- The fitful alternations of the rain / Christopher Mayo (Kennedy, Wakeford) (2:45) -- Tree / Errollyn Wallen (Wallen) (4:08) -- An hypallage / Chris Dench (Lixenberg, Ebrahim, Powell) A dangerous crossing / Edwin Roxburgh (Tynan, Burnside) (2:54) -- The Roman centurion's song / David Bedford (Mosley, Burnside) (3:16) -- 25 / Luke Stoneham (Stoneham) (3:07) -- Galliard, version 11 / (1:25) -- Bellamy / Mark-Anthony Turnage (Watts, Hulett, Wakeford) (1:14)
Ah! Sun-flower / Jonathan Harvey (Booth, Watkins) (1:56) -- Blackbirds and thrushes / Judith Weir (Mosley, Burnside) (2:48) -- The lif of this world / Stuart Macrae (Chance, Hatzinikolaou) (3:42) -- The importance of being earnest / Gerald Barry (Barry) (2:05) -- London / Martin Butler (Williams, Burnside) (3:37) -- Out in the dark / Colin Matthews (Booth, Watkins) (2:18) -- Galliard, version 12 / Tomas Morley ; arranged by Colin Matthews (Burnside, Ball, Wakeford, Hatzinikolaou, Chapman, Gunnell) (1:26) -- Old man and sea / Gavin Bryars (Kennedy, Wakeford) (4:50) -- Ulysses' admonition to Achilles / Alexander Goehr (Williams, West) (3:32) -- My favourite sound / Claudia Molitor (Chance, Mosley) (2:51) -- Stendhal's observation / John Woolrich (Booth, Watkins) (1:58) -- Silence on Ullswater / Howard Skempton (Hulett, Wakeford) (:53) -- Heynonnynonny smallprint / Geoffrey Poole (Stout) (4:17) -- The moon's funeral / Joseph Phibbs (Bowman, Plant) (3:20) -- Galliard, version 13 / Thomas Morley ; arranged by Colin Matthews (Burnside, Ball, Wakeford, Hatzinikolaou, Chapman, Gunnell) (1:29) -- Bees a-zwarmen / Julia Simpson (Lixenberg, Powell) (2:03) -- Sonnet XVIII / Simon Bainbridge (Bickley, Watts) (3:18) -- Go, lovely rose / Robin Holloway (Rigby, Watkins) (4:06) -- An aesthetic of lines / Jordan Hunt (Booth, Ball) (2:45) -- I look into my glass / Giles Swayne (Hulett, Hatzinikolaou) (2:12) -- Ghost train / Anthony Payne (Williams, Burnside) (4:07) -- A dictionary of London / Morgan Hayes (Lixenberg, Powell) (3:10) -- Driving / Ben Foskett (Norman, Ball) (2:02) -- Galliard, complete version / (3:09) -- An oblique / Bryn Harrison (Lixenberg, Powell) (3:45)