COMPOSER’S NOTE

In 2012, I was very pleased to be asked by Decca Records to write a whole album on the theme of angels.  The resulting album – Angel – recorded with the Choir of New College Oxford and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, went straight in at Number One in the UK classical charts.

This is an a cappella setting of the opening words of the Angelus, an ancient Christian prayer dating from at least the 11th Century and I dedicated this work to Edward Higginbottom and the Choir of New College Oxford as a ‘thank you’ for the joy it gave me to work with them and for their expert performance on the album.