Women's voices, both singers and composers, take centre stage as Corvus Consort and harpist Louise Thomson bring a beautifully curated programme spanning centuries of choral and harp music. Their acclaimed 2024 album Welcome Joy on Chandos was selected as BBC Radio 3's Essential Classics Album of the Week, named BBC Music Magazine's Recording of the Month, and featured among their 13 best classical albums of 2024.
The programme ranges from Imogen Holst and Judith Weir to Elizabeth Poston and Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols, with harp interludes woven throughout.
'Dazzling … under its founder-director Freddie Crowley, Corvus Consort is always full of fresh thinking.' BBC Music Magazine
Programme
Imogen Holst – Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow, 1st movement
Judith Weir – We sekyn here rest
Olivia Sparkhall – Lux aeterna
Hilary Campbell – Our endless day
Caroline Lizotte – La Madone (Harp interlude)
Elizabeth Poston – An English Day-Book
Interval
Elizabeth Poston – Jesus Christ the apple tree
Howard Skempton – Into this world, this day did come
Peter Maxwell Davies – The Fader of Heven
Trad. – Ther is no rose of swych vertu
Benjamin Britten – A Ceremony of Carols