Calmo : mystical music to soothe the soul /
Backhouse, Jeremy.
London : Boosey & Hawkes,
2006.
19 pieces for mixed voices, mostly unacc.
"The pieces ... all have something of the spiritual or mystical about them ... Some texts are overtly religious, others more generally spiritual in tone"--Pref.
Programme notes, p. 131-153.
Totus tuus / Henryk Górecki -- Calmo / Mark Anthony Turnage -- Lullabye for Lucy / Peter Maxwell Davies -- Agnus Dei ; Benedictus : from The armed man ; Pie Jesu : from Requiem / Karl Jenkins -- Evening hymn : from Vigilia / Einojuhani Rautavaara -- Pater noster / Rihards Dubra -- Litany / Alan Ridout -- Étude 1 ; Étude 4 / Loïc Pierre -- Immortal Bach / J.S. Bach/Knut Nystedt -- Det är en ros utsprungen / Praetorius/Jan Sandström -- Drop, drop slow tears / Brian Moles -- Lux aurumque / Eric Whitacre -- Chosen / James MacMillan -- Angel song II / Will Todd -- Give us this day / Ward Swingle.
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices).
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices)