The Elysian Singers, Mark Brafield, Sam Laughton - Beauty for Ashes (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Crux fidelis
02. Psalm 6
03. Salisbury Service: Magnificat
04. Salisbury Service: Nunc dimittis
05. I sing of a maiden
06. Hymn to St Alfege
07. Beati quorum via
08. The Pilgrimes Travels
09. Feathers
10. Leaf from leaf Christ know
11. The Lily of Heaven
12. Beauty for Ashes
13. God be in my head

‘Beauty for Ashes’ is a unique collection of unrecorded music from some of the UK’s foremost choral composers. Whilst the programme includes well-established names from classical music such as Bob Chilcott and Judith Weir, it also includes newer voices such as Alison Willis, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Judith Bingham, Sarah Macdonald and Roxanna Panufnik. Six of the contemporary composers featured on the recording are women, and their work exemplifies the enormous contribution female composers are making to the English choral tradition, in a genre where they have been historically under-represented and under-recorded. The principal aim of the recording is to enable these compositions to find new audiences and to promote the creation of new choral works. At a time when the sacred choral tradition is under severe threat from budget cuts, Beauty for Ashes reveals the vibrancy and variety of contemporary composition.

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