Editor's Note: Description is the label's own.
We are thrilled to present this CD of music by Liz Dilnot Johnson in her 60th birthday year. We have loved working closely with Liz for several years, as she explains in the booklet:
“This album celebrates my creative relationship with Ex Cathedra over the last nine years and as [a] composer-in-residence since 2021. The recording was made in three intense days at the Bradshaw Hall (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire), the warm but clearly defined acoustic revealing the choir’s exceptional vocal skills.
“The first eight tracks span nearly forty years of my composing life, up to A Wild Midwinter Carol [2022] – the first of my new set of ‘eco-songs’. The second half of the album presents When A Child Is A Witness – requiem for refugees – one of the largest and most ambitious collaborations with Ex Cathedra so far, and winner of an Ivors Composer Award 2022.”
Editors notes: This album includes four Christmas tracks:
For This Babe
Magi
Gentle Flame
A wild midwinter carol
Blake Reimagined (a la Christmas according to the composer)
Christmas Carols Blog: Our thanks to the composer for informing us of the Christmas pieces on this album.
https://excathedra.co.uk/recordings/johnson-gentle-flame/
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