Lament & Liberation

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Label
Signum Classics
Release Date
May 16, 2025
Format
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Martin Baker, James MacMillan, Joanna Marsh, Helena Paish, Roxanna Panufnik, Dobrinka Tabakova
    • PERFORMER
      Kevin Ke, Ingrid Birchall, Arthur Cobb, Martha Gritten, Alexander Robson, Samuel Smith, Alice Markha
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 16, 2025
    • UPC
      635212089323
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SIGCD893
    • LABEL
      Signum Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

The first album from the Choir of St John's with their new music director - Christopher Gray. Leaning into the college's well-established tradition of championing new music, at the heart of the programme are two triptychs: James MacMillan's Cantos Sagrados, composed 35 years ago, and Joanna Marsh's Echoes in Time, commissioned by the College in recent months. There is also a new choral work by Helena Paish and a new organ work by Martin Baker alongside existing works by Roxanna Panufnik and Dobrinka Tabakova. The commissioned works were conceived with the distinctive environment of St Johns' Victorian chapel (designed by George Gilbert Scott and consecrated in May 1869), it's organ and it's fine, world-famous choir which has done service since it's post-Restoration establishment in the 1670s.