ORA - Upheld by Stillness (2016)

If the Renaissance can justifiably lay claim to being a golden age for choral music I have long believed that we are currently in a new glittering age of both choral writing and performing. Throughout the world choral standards are ever on the increase and twenty-first-century composers are responding to this by writing exciting and challenging material for choirs, both amateur and professional. My first album conducting ORA is focused around that towering figure of the English music scene, William Byrd, alongside commissioned works by some of the UK s foremost choral composers, reflecting upon Byrd s Mass for Five Voices and Ave Verum Corpus. I am so grateful to the composers of all these wonderful new works. I am sure they will entertain and enlighten for many years to come. Suzi Digby OBE

Tracklist:
1. Philippe de Monte - Super flumina Babylonis 4 46
2. William Byrd - Quomodo cantabimus 7 02
3. William Byrd Mass for 5 Voices - Kyrie 1 30
4. William Byrd Mass for 5 Voices - Gloria 5 04
5. William Byrd Mass for 5 Voices - Credo 9 16
6. William Byrd Mass for 5 Voices - Sanctus and Benedictus 3 39
7. William Byrd Mass for 5 Voices - Agnus Dei 3 39
8. Roxanna Panufnik Kyrie after Byrd 3 44
9. Francis Pott Laudate Dominum 6 00
10. Alexander L Estrange Show me, deare Christ 13 10
11. Owain Park Upheld by stillness 6 54
12. Charlotte Bray Agnus Dei 4 40
13. William Byrd Ave verum corpus 3 34
14. Roderick Williams Ave verum corpus Re-imagined 5 46