All the music from the Choral Pilgrimage 2025!
Album Description
In an age of resurgent conflict and frenetic demands on our attention, Angel of Peace offers a slice of tranquillity in many forms courtesy of luminous, purifying music traversing six centuries.
This album centres on the power and beauty of poetry in music, bringing together the exquisite simplicity of the songs of 12th-century Abbess Hildegard of Bingen with John Taverner’s joyous large scale antiphons composed some 400 years later.
Leap forward to more recent times and we hear new settings by Will Todd and Anna Clyne of words by Cardinal Newman and Rainer Maria Rilke. Commissioned for solo violin with choir, both works heighten the intensity of the poetry through the fascinating musical dialogue between strings and voice. Arvo Pärt, marking his 90th birthday, brings us full circle with his serene clarity.
These timeless voices resonate with our deepest need for stillness and with each work we hope to share a moment of peace and connection through the timeless language of music.
Artists
The Sixteen
Sarah Sexton violin
Harry Christophers
Track Listing
HILDEGARD of Bingen
1. Ave, generosa (Verses 1-4)
Arvo PÄRT
2. Tribute to Caesar
Will TODD
3. I shall be an angel of peace **
John TAVERNER
4. Gaude plurimum
HILDEGARD of Bingen
5. Ave, generosa (Verses 5-7)
Arvo PÄRT
6. Da pacem Domine
Anna CLYNE
7. Orbits *
Arvo PÄRT
8. Magnificat
John TAVERNER
9. O splendor gloriae
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* New Commission and World Premiere Recording
** Commissioned by the Genesis Foundation
