Composer: Richard Lambert
Performer: Accordare Choir, Oriole String Quartet, Dominika Mak, George Szirtes, Adrian Bending, Donna Maria Landowski
Conductor: Karolina Csáthy
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata Classics
Catalogue: TOCC0713
Release: 2023
Size: 647 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. The Jackdaw of Rheims
02. Prayer & Supplication
03. Lord, Make Us Instruments of Thy Peace
04. All Was for an Apple
05. Herrick’s Carol
06. Hodie Christus natus est
07. O magnum mysterium
08. Away in a Manger
09. The Holly and the Ivy
10. There Was Sweet Music
11. The Wind Among the Reeds
12. …A Plague o’ Your Houses
The choral music of Richard Lambert, born in Bath in the English West Country in 1951, covers a wide range of expression, ranging on this album from straightforward SATB settings for church performance to a sardonic parody of the excesses of established religion. It also encompasses the timeless and the timely, with a number of contributions to the age-old tradition of Christmas music to a cantata inspired by the Covid pandemic.