99 WORDS 1 SVYATI SIR JOHN TAVENER свѧти боже · свѧтIи крѣпъкIи · Holy God, Holy and Strong, ROXANNA PANUFNIK свѧтIи бесъмрьтьнIи · помилоуи насъ Holy and Immortal, have mercy upon us.

1 Svyati John Tavener [13.08] This work was commissioned by Cricklade Ikon of Christ, it must be played without Choir & Cello Music Festival with funds from Southern Arts. any sentiment of a Western character, but It was first performed at the Cricklade Music should derive from the chanting of the Eastern 2 Heav’nly Harmony * Roxanna Panufnik [6.27] Choir & Organ Festival on 1st October 1995, by the Kiev Orthodox Church. Chamber Choir with Steven Isserlis (cello), John Tavener 3 Look in thy Glass * John Tavener [4.07] Choir directed by Mykola Gobdych. 2 HEAV’NLY HARMONY * 4 99 Words to my Darling Children Roxanna Panufnik music [7.06] I began to write Svyati in early 1995: while Narrator, Choir & Cello John Tavener words sketching it, Iearned that John Williams, father From harmony, from Heav’nly harmony 5 Improvisation on Tavener themes * Matthew Barley [5.08] of Jane, my dear friend and publisher, was This universal frame began. Cello dying. I could not refrain from dedicating it to When Nature underneath a heap 6 Threnos John Tavener [6.24] Jane and to the memory of her father. Of jarring atoms lay, Cello And could not heave her head, 7 The Tablet of your Heart * Roxanna Panufnik [5.11] The text is in Church Slavonic, and it is used at The tuneful voice was heard from high, Choir & Organ almost every Russian Orthodox service, perhaps Arise ye more than dead. Charlotte Langley - soprano solo most poignantly after the congregation have 8 Maha Maya * John Tavener [11.12] kissed the body in an open coffin at an Orthodox From harmony, from Heav’nly harmony Choir & Organ funeral. The choir sings as the coffin is closed This universal frame began: and borne out of the church, followed by the From harmony to harmony Total timings: [58.46] mourners with lighted candles. The cello Through all the compass of the notes it ran, * Premiere Recording represents the Priest or Ikon of Christ, and The diapason closing full in man. should play at a distance from the choir, perhaps The trumpet’s loud clangor VOCE CHAMBER CHOIR • SUZI DIGBY CONDUCTOR at the opposite end of the building. As in Excites us to arms MATTHEW BARLEY CELLO • JAMES SHERLOCK ORGAN Greek drama, choir and priest are in dialogue With shrill notes of anger SIMON RUSSELL BEALE NARRATOR with each other. Since the cello represents the And mortal alarms. www.signumrecords.com - 3 - The soft complaining flute my English Lit O’ level) to find a suitable text. Or who is he so fond will be the tomb 4 99 WORDS to MY In dying notes discovers These verses from Dryden’s A Song of Saint Of his self-love, to stop posterity? DARLING CHILDREN The woes of hopeless lovers, Cecilia’s Day (1687) couldn’t been more perfect Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee Whose dirge is whisper’d by the warbling lute. – the mention of various instruments are Calls back the lovely April of her prime; What we know is ringed with darkness; God, easily expressed in the new organ’s many So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, however, sees it as light. Find the courage to Sharp violins proclaim sublime stops and the drama of the poem Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time. trust this Reality; remember God every day. Their jealous pangs, and desperation, ideally suits such a versatile and expressive But if thou live, remember’d not to be, Strive to embrace all creations. If we are with Fury, frantic indignation, instrument. Die single, and thine image dies with thee. God when all is well, He will be with us when Depth of pains and height of passion, William Shakespeare life wounds. Seek what exalts you, and live ‘à For the fair, disdainful dame. I would like to thank Dean Close for commissioning tous risques’. Life is a dream, but it is not our This commission was supported by the Ministry dream. All that happens to you is sent from God. But oh! what art can teach the piece, The Rt. Hon. David and Mrs Hicks of Education and Culture in Iceland and is Aspire to that state of bliss which inhabits all What human voice can reach Beach for supporting the commission and dedicated to Hilmar Örn Agnarsson and the things. For ‘God is a beautiful being, and He The sacred organ’s praise? Alistair Langlands for introducing me to the South Iceland Chamber Choir. The work was loves beauty.’ Your true Self is God. Notes inspiring holy love, delights of Dryden. first performed by the South Iceland Chamber 99 words for my darling children Theodora, Sofia Notes that wing their Heav’nly ways Choir at Southwark Cathedral, London, on 15th and Orlando, by John Tavener To mend the choirs above. The piece is dedicated to Dean Close School and lasts approximately 6 minutes. November 2013. From harmony, from Heav’nly harmony Roxanna Panufnik Always having been an enormous fan of Sir This universal frame began: This set of Three Shakespeare Sonnets was John Tavener’s music, during a beautiful Service From harmony to harmony, 3 LOOK IN THY GLASS one of the first works that I composed after of Thanksgiving for his life and work at The dead shall live, the living die, serious illness in 2007. I wanted to pay tribute Westminster Abbey in June 2014, I was incredibly And music shall untune the sky. Sonnet III to my wife, Maryanna, who nursed me back moved by his oldest daughter, Theodora, reading John Dryden (1631-1700) to some degree of health, so I turned to the these ‘99 Words for my Darling Children, Theodora, Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest Shakespeare Sonnets. I was delighted to find Sofia and Orlando’. As well as being a deeply When Dean Close School approached me to Now is the time that face should form another; that they brought forth music once again, after inspiring mantra for how he wanted his children write an anthem to celebrate the launch of Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, I had been silent for so long. to live their lives, there seemed to be so many their new, exclusively made and exquisite organ Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother. John Tavener parallels with my own personal history. Like I turned to one of my remarkably generous For where is she so fair whose unear’d womb Theodora, I had lost a composer father whose ex-English teachers (especially since I failed Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry? musical legacy is sometimes comforting but

- 4 - - 5 - can also feel incredibly raw. Like Sir John and Proceeds from this recording will go towards My Child, keep my words Looking further at the surrounding verses, I was his wife Maryanna, I too have 3 children – two the Tavener Foundation, which promotes access and store up my commandments with you; very moved by the warm and nurturing context older girls and a younger boy. And these words to John’s and other classical music, as well as keep my commandments and live, in which these words were set and incorporated sum up everything that I would wish upon my harmony through music, between faiths. keep my teachings as the apple of your eye; more of them. The action of ‘bind’ing them own children. Roxanna Panufnik bind them on your fingers, around fingers inspired me to create a winding write them on the tablet of your heart. and intertwining texture within the choir - each My immediate reaction on hearing the reading 6 THRENOS part singing an ancient Middle Eastern-sounding was a desire to set them to music and just as I From the Anglicized NRSV, from Proverbs: 3, 6, 7 scale, wrapping the refrain in blanket of gently Threnos (Lament) for solo cello was composed was writing to Maryanna to ask her permission, flowing harmonies. conductor Suzi Digby OBE, contacted me and late in 1990, for Stephen Isserlis. The title, When The Tablet asked me to write a motet to Tavener writes, ‘has both liturgical and folk asked if I’d consider setting them for her Voce be performed at their 175th birthday mass The motet is dedicated to The Tablet on the significance in Greece - the Threnos of the Chamber Choir. (16th May, 2015, Westminster Cathedral, occasion of their 175th birthday and lasts about Mother of God sung at the Epitaphios on Good London), they specified two particular lines 4’30”. I am so grateful to the Tablet for the Friday and the Threnos of mourning which is The music I’ve written for this rocks gently, like from the bible’s Book of Proverbs: “Keep my commission and the inspiring words to set. a lullaby. The words are so important that chanted over the dead body on the house of a commandments and live, keep my teachings Roxanna Panufnik I’ve made sure you hear everyone one of them close friend.’ Tavener wrote his Threnos to as the apple of your eye; bind them on your by having them first narrated and then sung. commemorate the death of a close friend. fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.” Michael Stewart The ‘cello represents John – supporting, encouraging and embellishing the words. I 7 THE TABLET OF YOUR HEART have been longing to write for ‘cellist Matthew My Child, do not forget my teaching, Barley for a considerable time so I’m deeply 8 MAHA MAYA honoured that he is premiering this. but let your heart keep my commandments; for length of days and years of life Ich sehe dich in tausend Bildern It is with enormous thanks to Maryanna, Theodora, and abundant welfare they will give you. Sofia and Orlando for letting me set these Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you: Ich sehe dich in tausend Bildern, I see thee, Mary, adorably expressed in a very precious words – I know it must have been bind them on your fingers, Maria, lieblich ausgedrückt. thousand images, but none can portray thee a very tough decision and I am hugely grateful write them on the tablet of your heart. Doch keins von allen kann dich schildern, as my soul has seen thee. for their trust in me to do this. And thank you wie meine Seele dich erblickt. Suzi, for giving me the opportunity to do this.

- 6 - - 7 - Ich weiss nur, dass der Welt Getümmel I only know that since then the world’s tumult double choir and organ, and is in three sections. seitdem mir wie ein Traum verweht, has been wafted away like a dream, and a sweet, The first choir sings two German texts: Ich und ein unnennbar süsser Himmel ineffable heaven has filled my soul forever. sehe dich in tausend Bildern by Novalis (Baron mir ewig im Gemüte steht. Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772-1801)) in the Novalis (1772-1801) outer sections, and Stella Matutina by the Sufi philosopher Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) Stella Matutina in the very tender central section. The second choir invokes Maha Prajavati, Maha Maya, and Der Morgenstern erhebt sich aus der Nacht The Morning Star arises from the night Stella Matutina throughout. The organ sounds So wie die Göttin Venus aus dem Bade Like the goddess Venus from the foam on either side of the centre of the Tryptich, Des Meeres – eine Perle, dann ein Weib; Of the sea – a pearl, and then a woman; and represents (by using Harmonies of the

Urweiblich ist des Himmels Wundergnade. © Simone Canetty-Clarke Profoundly feminine is Heaven’s wondrous Grace. Spheres, played fortissimo) the awesome and two decades. From the late 1990s he looked for Sie ist Geheimnis; sie ist nicht Gesetz, She is mystery; she is not law, cosmic nature of the Eternal Feminine. John Tavener inspiration from alternative sources by his broad Sie ist das freie göttliche Vergeben She is free divine forgiveness, interest in the great religions, embracing Hinduism, Tief aus den Wassern der Unendlichkeit – From the deep waters of Infinity – SIR JOHN TAVENER Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the spirituality of

the American Indians. After a period of intense Und niemand kann der Isis Schleier heben. And none can lift the veil of Isis. Tavener’s musical education took place against illness, he was also inspired by the works of Frithjof Schuon a modernist backdrop, and the first work that Tolstoy, Shakespeare, the English Poets and Dante. Stella Matutina brought him to widespread attention, The Text and translation © Copyright 2003 World Wisdom, Inc. Whale (1966), was premiered in 1968 by the Tavener’s work is often intensely beautiful, and worldwisdom.com All Rights Reserved. Reproduced by permission. London Sinfonietta at their inaugural concert often awe-inspiring. His drive to express beauty and released on The Beatles’ Apple Records. and truth through music was lifelong, and led Maha Maya was commissioned by the Cantata Maha Maya is a celebration of the Eternal As the years progressed his music became him through understandings of many religions Choir, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Feminine; in the Great Mother of the Hindus, increasingly spiritual in conception, contemplative and ideologies to produce a unique body of work. First performance at the Canterbury Festival on in the Maha Prajavati of the Buddhists (making in its idiom, and popular with audiences 14th October 2004, in the Canterbury Cathedral the Mother of the Buddha the same primal worldwide. Brought up in the Scottish Presbyterian The music of John Tavener is published exclusively Quire, by the Cantata Choir of Canterbury Mother), and in Mary the Mother of Christ, seen Church, interested in the Catholic faith, he by Chester Music Limited, part of The Music Christ Church University College, with David in her universal aspect as Stella Matutina, settled in the Orthodox Church in 1977, a Sales Group of Companies. Flood (organ), conducted by Grenville Hancox. and Mother of all the Prophets. The music is for major inspiration for his work for the following musicsalesclassical.com

- 8 - - 9 - ROXANNA PANUFNIK VOCE CHAMBER CHOIR

Roxanna Panufnik, born 1968, ARAM, GRSM Voce is a dynamic London chamber choir (hons), LRAM, studied composition at the founded by Suzi Digby and Harry Briggs in the Royal Academy of Music and, since then, has summer of 2003. A diverse group of around written a wide range of pieces – opera, ballet, 30 talented singers, they are well-known for music theatre, choral works, orchestral and their polished performances of challenging chamber compositions, and music for film repertoire from across the musical spectrum; and television – which are performed all over from major canonical works to traditional and the world. popular music from around the world. They also regularly commission and perform new Roxanna has a great love of world music – this works from the brightest rising stars on the has culminated in her “Four World Seasons” choral music scene. for violinist Tasmin Little, the world premiere of which was picked by BBC Radio 3 to launch Find out more about Voce at their Music Nations weekend, celebrating www.vocechamberchoir.org.uk the London Olympics; her multi-faith Warner © Paul Mitchell Classics CD “Love Abide” (www.loveabide.com) three faiths believe in the same one God. This Soprano Alto Tenor Bass and “Dance of Life: Tallinn Mass” for work was subsequently converted into an Katherine Barnes Cathy Barrows Rorie Evans William Hare Tallinn Philharmonic (www.tallinnmass.com), overture for the World Orchestra for Peace Ana Beard Fernandez Amy Blythe Robert Hatch Henry Page commissioned to celebrate Tallinn’s reign as and premiered in Jerusalem and London under Bonnie de la Hunty Eve Bravin Francis Hemingway Philip Raperport European Capital of Culture. the baton of Valery Gergiev, in 2008 and at Sophie Gick Ele Corcoran Matt Horrocks Jeremy Smith the 2014 BBC Proms. Charlotte Langley Jane Macarthur Eoghan McArdle Jamie Sperling She is especially interested in building musical Rebecca Nathan Rebecca Polson Henry Vann bridges between faiths and her first project in Roxanna is Associate Composer with the Elizabeth Oliphant this field was the violin concerto “Abraham”, London Mozart Players. Her compositions are Emily Owen commissioned for Daniel Hope, incorporating published by Peter’s Edition Ltd and recorded Lauren Sager Weinstein Christian, Islamic and Jewish chant to create on many labels including Warner Classics, Jen Sanders a musical analogy for the fact that these Signum, Chandos, and EMI Classics. Zoe Silkstone

- 10 - - 11 - SUZI DIGBY OBE in the Royal Albert Hall in a scratch Youth MATTHEW BARLEY Messiah. In 2016 this was awarded Best Suzi Digby OBE was born in Japan and lived in Classical Music Education Initiative Nationwide Cello playing is at the centre of Matthew Barley’s Hong Kong, Mexico and the Philippines before by popular Classic FM vote. career, while his musical world has virtually no settling in London & Cambridge. She is an geographical, social or stylistic boundaries. internationally renowned Choral Conductor In 2014, she launched one of the finest and Music Educator. She has trailblazed the professional consorts in California, ‘The Golden Matthew Barley is passionate about improvisation, revival of singing in UK schools and the Bridge’, which commissions Californian composers education, multi-genre music-making, electronics, community over two and a half decades. Suzi to reflect masterpieces of the English ‘Golden’ and pioneering community programmes. He founded and runs the following influential Tudor Age and of the European Renaissance. is also a world-renowned cellist, who has National arts/education organisations: The performed in over 50 countries, including Voices Foundation (the UK’s leading Primary Suzi is a Trustee of Music in Country Churches, concertos with the BBC Philharmonic, London Music Education Charity); Voce Chamber among other music and education charities. Sinfonietta, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Royal Choir (one of London’s finest young Chamber She is Past President of the Incorporated Choirs); Vocal Futures (Nurturing young Society of Musicians and was Acting Music [16-22] audiences for Classical Music); Director of Queens’ College, Cambridge (where Singing4Success (Leadership and ‘Accelerated she founded and runs the Queens’ Choral Learning’ for Corporates) and The London Suzi is a visiting Professor at University of Conducting Programme). Amongst many TV Youth Choir (a pyramid of 5 choirs, 8-22, Southern California (Choral Studies). appearances, she was judge in BBC1’s hit serving all ethnic communities in London’s 33 show, Last Choir Standing with over seven boroughs). February 2016 saw the public As a conductor, Suzi’s 2011 debut with million viewers. She regularly adjudicates choral launch of her professional vocal consort, ORA the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment competitions and gives workshops and lectures (commissioning international choral works (Vocal Futures’ Bach’s St Matthew Passion) around the world. as ‘reflections’ of Renaissance masterworks). was met with outstanding critical acclaim: ORA’s debut album came in top of the new “Choral wizard”, “The mother of all music”, The entries Classical Music charts in the UK and the Telegraph; “Sensitive and accomplished conductor”, second album is released this month on the Musical America; “A serious force for good Harmonia Mundi label. In 2017 she received within Britain’s music education system”, New an honorary degree from University of Aberdeen. Statesman. Suzi annually conducts 2,000 voices © Nick White

- 12 - - 13 - Scottish National, Kremerata Baltica, Vienna Matthew’s recordings have been released on JAMES SHERLOCK Radio Symphony, Netherlands Radio Symphony, Black Box, Signum Classics and Onyx Classics Czech Philharmonic, Melbourne and New – the latter included a CD with Viktoria Mullova James Sherlock studies orchestral conducting Zealand Symphonies and the Metropole on which Matthew was cellist, arranger, at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. In the Jazz Orchestra. composer and producer, The Peasant Girl, which past year he has made conducting debuts has gained rave reviews worldwide, and is with the English Chamber Orchestra and the Matthew Barley’s collaborations include now also available on DVD. BBC Concert Orchestra, collaborating with Matthias Goerne, the Labèque Sisters, Víkingur artists including Raphael Wallfisch and Dame Olafsson, Martin Frost, Thomas Larcher, Hugo In 2013 Matthew undertook a 100-event UK tour Shirley Bassey. He was selected by the London Ticciati, Amjad Ali Khan, Julian Joseph, Talvin celebrating Benjamin Britten – the tour was Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras Singh, Kathryn Tickell, Nitin Sawhney, and accompanied by a CD release, Around Britten, as the young British conductor to take part Jon Lord (Deep Purple), appearing in venues described by Sinfini as “a defining statement in in their International Artists Academy in Berlin ranging from Ronnie Scott’s and the WOMAD modern cello playing”. and Aix-en-Provence. festivals to Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Zürich’s Tonhalle. Matthew’s new music group, Between Following a tour to Mexico with City of London As a keyboard player, he has performed in major The Notes, has undertaken over 60 creative Sinfonia, he furthers his relationship with venues worldwide as a soloist and chamber projects with young musicians and orchestral the orchestra with concerts in 2017. Upcoming musician, including the Berlin Philharmonie, players around the world. projects include the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Carnegie and Wigmore Halls, and the BBC Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Musikgebouw Amsterdam. He has performed As well as a series of performances of and an artist-residency at the Kassel Music alongside many international singers including Thomas Larcher’s double concerto with Days festival in Germany (with Avi Avital Dame Felicity Lott, Angelika Kirchschlager, © Raphaëlle Photography violinist Viktoria Mullova, commissioned by the and Manu Delago) and performances of a Sir Thomas Allen and Dame Sarah Connolly. at the Royal Overseas League Competition as BBC Proms, Matthew has given premieres by new double concerto by Pascal Dusapin with both soloist and accompanist, at Das Lied James MacMillan, Detlev Glanert, Dai Fujikura Viktoria Mullova with Netherlands Radio, London James previously studied at the Guildhall International Song Competition, BBC Performing and many other prominent composers, including Philharmoni, Paris National, Seattle Symphony School of Music & Drama, Trinity College Arts Trust, the Award for Young Concert Artists with some of the greatest Indian musicians in and Leipzig Gewandhaus Cambridge, the Georg Solti Accademia and and Gold Medal at the Marcello Galanti a new project with the Philharmonia Orchestra. www.matthewbarley.com the Franz Schubert Institut. His teachers have International Organ Competition. included Richard Bonynge, Graham Johnson, Ronan O’Hora and Joan Havill. He won top prizes

- 14 - - 15 - SIMON RUSSELL BEALE Dead Girls Tell No Tales, Radio 4 Book of the Week: The Story of Alice, Victory, A Spy Among Theatre credits include: The Tempest, King Friends, The Screwtape Letters, The Organist’s Lear, Ghosts, Richard III, The Seagull, Edward II, Daughter, Prom: National Theatre Orchestra, Troilus & Cressida, The Man of Mode, Restoration Twenty Minutes – Wagner, Suspicion In Ten (RSC); King Lear, Timon of Athens, Collaborators, Voices, Copenhagen, Collaborators, Olympiad London Assurance, A Slight Ache, Major / Shakespeare, In Tune, The Secret Pilgrim, Barbara, Much Ado About Nothing, The Alchemist, Smiley’s People, Chekhov’s Gun, The Honourable Life of Galileo, Jumpers, Humble Boy, Hamlet, Schoolboy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Looking Battle Royal, Candide, Summerfolk, Money, Glass War, The Spy Who Came In From The Othello, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Cold, A Murder of Quality, Call For The Dead, Volpone (National Theatre), Mr Foote’s Other Words & Music: Joy, A Shropshire Lad. Leg (Hampstead/ Haymarket); Temple, The Philanthropist, Uncle Vanya, Twelfth Night Book narration includes: The Romanovs, De (Donmar Warehouse); The Hothouse (Trafalgar Profundis, A Dance to The Music of Time, Hamlet, Studios); Privates On Parade (Noel Coward The Tempest, Measure For Measure. Theatre); Bluebird (Atlantic Theatre, New York); The Cherry Orchard, The Winter’s Tale (BAM, 1 & 2, God’s Country, Symphony, Spooks, Sacred Television narration includes: The National Trust. World Tour, Old Vic); Monty Python’s Spamalot Music, American Experience, Dunkirk, The Visiters, (Palace Theatre, London & Schubert Theatre, Great Historians, Gibbon, A Dance To The Music Concerts include: BBC Proms, Dancers on a New York); Julius Caesar (Barbican / International Of Time. Tightrope, Artaxerxes, Façade, Music & Poetry: Tour); Macbeth (Almeida Theatre); Jumpers Auden & Britten, The Firebrand Of Florence. (Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York); Jumpers Film includes: The Death of Stalin, My Cousin (Piccadilly Theatre); Humble Boy (Gielgud Theatre). Rachel, Savannah, Into The Woods, The Deep Ballet includes: Alice In Wonderland. Blue Sea, My Week With Marilyn, Hamlet.

Television includes: Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Radio includes: War & Peace, The Trials of Wipe, Penny Dreadful, Under The Covers, Oscar Wilde, The Sisterhood, Waiting For Godot, Monteverdi, Legacy, Perkinson, Henry IV Parts Art, Radio 4 book of the Week: The Other Paris,

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Recorded on 31st March 2017 in St John’s, Islington, London and on 1st April in St Augustine’s, Kilburn, London, UK. Producer – Adrian Peacock Recording Engineer – Mike Hatch Editors – Adrian Peacock and Dave Rowell

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99 WORDS

SIR JOHN TAVENER ROXANNA PANUFNIK Words 99

1 Svyati John Tavener [13.08]

2 Heav’nly Harmony * Roxanna Panufnik [6.27] PANUFNIK ROXANNA TAVENER JOHN SIR 3 Look in thy Glass * John Tavener [4.07] 4 99 Words to my Darling Children * Roxanna Panufnik music, John Tavener words [7.06] 5 Improvisation on Tavener themes * Matthew Barley [5.08] 6 Threnos John Tavener [6.24] 7 The Tablet of your Heart * Roxanna Panufnik [5.11] 8 Maha Maya * John Tavener [11.12]

Total timings: [58.46] * Premiere Recording SIR JOHN TAVENER ROXANNA PANUFNIK

VOCE CHAMBER CHOIR • SUZI DIGBY CONDUCTOR 99 Words MATTHEW BARLEY CELLO • JAMES SHERLOCK ORGAN

SIMON RUSSELL BEALE NARRATOR

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