Choral Contemplations

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Discover this sequence of sacred choral works that explore stillness, meaning, and the deeper resonance of text through music, written by a group of composers united by a shared philosophical and theological outlook.

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About this release

Choral Contemplations brings together sacred choral works by composers united by a shared philosophical and theological outlook, offering a sequence that explores stillness, meaning, and the deeper resonance of text through music.

Drawn together by a love of music, of philosophy, and of the Christian tradition, their approach is shaped in part by the teaching of Leon MacLaren, a self-taught polymath whose search for life’s deeper questions informed a distinctive understanding of sound, listening, and creativity.

  • Ask, seek, knock - Derek Saunders
  • O most merciful - Adrian Green
  • Set me as a seal - David Fletcher
  • For the Fallen - Noel Skinner, arr. Matthew Coleridge
  • O Oriens - David Goymour
  • A new commandment - John-Paul Bowman
  • In Rama a voice is heard - David Fletcher
  • And he arose - Rosemary Broadbent
  • My beloved spake - David Fletcher
  • What is man? - Peter Blumsom
  • To Cecilia - Bruce Ramell
  • The Absorbeat (Prayer of St Francis) - Adrian Green
  • Be still, and know that I am God - Derek Saunders
  • The earth is the Lord’s - Noel Skinner
  • Every good gift - Adrian Green
  • O Adonai - Bruce Ramell
  • Dum medium silentium - John-Paul Bowman
  • Sing we merrily - David Fletcher
  • Lighten our darkness - David Goymour
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Recording Engineer Tom Mungall
Producers Adrian Green and Tom Mungall
Design Mike Cooter
Executive Producer Adrian Green
Recording Dates 20th and 21st February 2026
Recording Location St John’s, Upper Norwood, London
Catalogue number CR130