SHIELDING SONGS

Shielding Songs is a new choral album, due for release in 2025.It is a beautiful and powerful mix of unrecorded work and new arrangements of some of my best known pieces.

I am immunocompromised and as such shielded for over two years during the pandemic. When I went through my choral works, I found that the same concerns arose time and time again- protection, sanctuary and a dogged determination to believe in the best of people, even through the worst of times. Now more than ever, we have to look after one another and I hope that this music brings hope and solace to listeners.

Vulnerability, the strength of human love, dignity and tolerance shines through the album, particularly in the anti-war requiem Perpetual Light, unrecorded since its premiere in 2011 at London’s Old Vic Tunnels. It encapsulates the driving themes of the album- that in the face of adversity and trauma, it is love and nurture that will hold us together.

This new album is a chance to experience these solemn yet soaring choral works, performed by the wonderful London Voices, who have previously worked with me on my world-famous game soundtracks.