Richard Allain: Choral Music

Celebrating ten years since the inception of the College’s choral foundation, the choir’s seventh Delphian recording follows the themed anthologies which brought it such immediate critical acclaim with what will be the first in a series of close collaborations between the choir and individual living composers. Richard Allain writes music across a wide spectrum of genres; he and Benjamin Nicholas have put together a programme showcasing his oeuvre – from a setting of the Evening Canticles, animated then impassioned, to a sumptuous reimagining of the spiritual Don’t you weep when I am gone and Allain’s most performed work, the wedding anthem Cana’s Guest.

Track listing

A Perfect Friend

The Norwich Service

If music be the food of love

Cana’s Guest

The Magi’s Gifts

The Beloved

Welcome, all wonders

O Day-spring

Videte miraculum

A Prayer of St Richard of Chichester

Don’t you weep when I am gone

God be in my head

The Lord reigns (Psalm 93)