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
Celebrating ten years since the inception of Merton 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. Recorded at Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, 26-28 June 2017
