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Tom Service introduces choral works by Gabriel Jackson, Michael Zev Gordon and Gyorgy Ligeti, together with a great renaissance masterpiece, from a concert given at this summer''s Cheltenham Festival; and Paul Driver explores what makes modern-day composers continue to look to medieval and renaissance models and vocal textures for inspiration.

Gabriel Jackson: Sanctum est verum lumen
Ligeti: Lux aeterna
Michael Zev Gordon: Allele
Tallis: Spem in alium

New London Chamber Choir
Conducted by James Weeks

Plus Sir Peter Maxwell Davies conducts the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic in his own imaginative and witty mix of old and new, his foxtrot for orchestra on a pavan by John Bull, 'St Thomas Wake'.

Playlist:

Peter Maxwell Davies: In Nomine II (excerpt)
London Sinfonietta / David Atherton
Decca 475 6166. Disc 1 Track 10

Peter Maxwell Davies: In Nomine V (excerpt)
London Sinfonietta / David Atherton
Decca 475 6166. Disc 1 Track 12

Concert items:
Gabriel Jackson: Sanctum est verum lumen
Ligeti: Lux aeterna
Michael Zev Gordon: Allele
Tallis: Spem in alium

New London Chamber Choir
Conducted by James Weeks
Recorded at the Cheltenham Festival on the 10 July 2010

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E minor Op. 90, 1st movt (excerpt)
Andras Schiff (piano)
ECM 476 6189. Track 1

Goehr: String Quartet No. 3 (excerpt)
Lindsay String Quartet
Wergo WER 60093 (LP) S2/1

Tye: Dum transisset II (excerpt)
Hesperion XX
Astree E8708. Track 15

Brian Ferneyhough: Dum transisset I-IV (excerpt)
Arditti String Quartet
´óÏó´«Ã½ Recording

Peter Maxwell Davies: St Thomas Wake
´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic / Peter Maxwell Davies
Collins Classics 13082. Track 7

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