Commotio celebrate the festive season with a selection of rare choral gems by 20th Century and contemporary composers. Naylor's exceptional Introduction and nine carols,' Exultet Mundus Gaudio' and Richard Marlow's Advent Responsary make full use of the fabulous acoustic of SJE with the choir dividing into several sections. Contemporary composers, Jackson, Briggs and Jones combine mediaeval texts with contemporary choral polyphony, whilst Esmail uses Indian classical Raag in her reflection upon the Christmas story from the perspective of evening, midnight, and daybreak.

Richard Marlow: Advent Responsory
Bernard Naylor: Exultet Mundus Gaudio
Gabriel Jackson: Salus aeterna
Tamsin Jones: Noel verbum caro factum est
Reena Esmail: Winter Breviary
Kenneth Leighton: Nativitie
Kerensa Briggs: A Tender Shoot
Herbert Murrill: Brother Petroc’s Carol
Geoffrey Bush: Christmas Night
John Duggan: In the bleak mid-winter
Gregory Rose: It’s Snowing