Divo Aloysio Sacrum ** The Gallant Weaver A Child's Prayer Seinte Mari Moder Milde Tremunt Videntes Angeli * Cantos Sagrados Christus Vincit So Deep *

 *  first recording
 **  first commercial recording

• "Highly attractive...hugely enjoyable" (Time Out)
• "A must for MacMillan fans, and a particularly accessible introduction for those unfamiliar with his music...The performances are exquisite...highly recommended" (Musicweb)
• "Robust yet tonally refined performances" ***** (BBC Music Magazine)
• "One for every choir conductor looking for new repertoire to check out" (Musicalpointers)
• "Sam Laughton's Elysian Singers perform here with captivating intensity, thrillingly so in Cantos Sagrados" ***** (Classic FM)
• Subtle, disciplined and radiant...The current absence of alternative recordings of most of these pieces makes this album even more worthy of recommendation (Gramophone)
• Magnificent...a superb rendering of "Tremerunt videntes angeli", a lovely "Gallant Weaver"; and above all, "Cantos Sagrados" (Church Times)
• An engaging CD, praised by the composer as a good interpretation of his work, that should appeal to a wide audience (SPNM)

Now available in the shops, or through Signum's website. Alternatively, you can buy 1 "Cantos Sagrados" plus 1 "Peacocks and Piranhas" (see below) through the choir at the special price of £20.50 (includes £1.50 of P&P). If you would like to take up this offer, please send a cheque (payable to "The Elysian Singers of London") to: Elysian Singers, 75 Elspeth Road, London SW11 1DP.

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Thea Musgrave: On the Underground (Set 2) Paul Hindemith: Two songs Jacques Arcadelt: Il bianco e dolce cigno Orlando Gibbons: The Silver Swan Peter Maxwell Davies: O magnum mysterium Alan Bullard: Choristers of Flight * Thomas Vautor: Sweet Suffolk owl Charles V. Stanford: The Blue Bird John Tavener: The Lamb Gerald Finzi: Nightingales Maurice Ravel: Trois Chansons

 *  first recording

For the words to these tracks, please click here.

This CD, priced at £10 (Friends £9), is available only through the choir. If you would like to purchase it, please send a cheque (payable to "The Elysian Singers of London") to: The Elysian Singers, 75, Elspeth Road, London SW11 1DP, adding £1.50 P&P regardless of the number of CDs being ordered.

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The Fire of Heaven * The Fall of Lucifer * Nearing the Upper Air But have been found again James Bowman · Rogers Covey-Crump Endymion Ensemble · Elysian Singers conducted by Geoffrey Burgon & Matthew Greenall

 *  first recording

• "Well-communicated new music: recommended"
  **** (Classic CD)
• "Highly recommended" *** (CD Review)

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Five early Part-Songs ** Her ute skal gildet staa Irmelin, Chorus from Irmelin * Wedding Music from A Village Romeo and Juliet Chorus from Appalachia On Craig Ddu, Wanderer's Song Midsummer Song, Two songs for children * Two songs to be sung of a summer night Two choruses from Hassan The Splendour falls on Castle Walls

 *  first recording
 **  3 first recordings

• "This is the only all-Delius collection of its kind on the market and it allows us to pleasurably follow the development of Delius's style" (Gramophone)
• "Matthew Greenall and the Elysians should be congratulated ... this CD should be in the collection of every Delian" (British Music Society Journal)

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Benjamin Britten: Ceremony of Carols Peter Maxwell Davies: Ave Rex Angelorum * Judith Weir: llluminare, Jerusalem Robert Saxton: The Child of Light * John Tavener: A Nativity * William Walton: All this time John Byrt: All and some Kenneth Leighton: Of a rose * Lennox Berkeley: In Wintertime * Francis Poulenc: Four Christmas Motets

 *  first recording

• "One of the best performances of Britten's Ceremony of Carols to come my way. Exquisitely sung with full-bodied, lively tone." ***** (Classic CD)
• "A Ceremony of Carols makes a lovely effect. Performed with skill and fine tone." (Gramophone)

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