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Tenebrae bring their trademark emotional depth and pinpoint precision to a choral anthology of music offering reflections on rest.

The centrepiece is Howell's radiant Requiem, encircled by English choral music as diverse as Holst's haunting motet, John Tavener's ecstatic ringing refrains and Richard Rodney Bennett's simple, heartfelt memorial to Linda McCartney. From the other side of the Atlantic come two of today's most original and engaging compositional voices; singer and composer Caroline Shaw's rapturous Psalm setting and Joel Thompson's response to the twin turmoil of a global pandemic and the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd in the US. An exquisite collation of musical farewells - ruminations on sleep, death and the promise of life to come.