A lively setting of the famous Locus Iste text by Derri Lewis, using the two Latin words and their English translation, gives this programme its title and its theme. The primary references are within each piece, with the idea of place interpreted both literally and metaphorically in terms of the home, the embrace of a lover, or a sense of spiritual respite and peace. But the whole album also acknowledges the chamber choir’s position within Imperial College, London, and the musical home that its members find in the choir.

There’s a lovely sense of spaciousness in pieces such as James Erb’s arrangement of ‘Shenandoah’, and the choir has a very youthful yet supremely confident, warm and colourful sound; tenors and basses are particularly impressive throughout. But the singers can do tender too, as in Stephen Paulus’s setting of Michael Dennis Browne’s ‘The Road Home’ (which includes a lump-in-the-throat-inducing soprano solo by Catherine James), Herbert Howells’s ‘There is a little door’, and Jake Runestad’s meditation on grief ‘Let My Love Be Heard’.

A highlight, new to me, is the opening track, Peter Tranchell’s touching ’The Dog That Sat’, setting a newspaper report about an abandoned dog. The funeral text Lux Aeterna is set by choir member Pallav Bagchi, a student of aeronautical engineering, and Sibelius’s ‘Finlandia’ imaginatively arranged by choir director Patrick Allies.

The repertoire has an international flavour and an attractive blurring of the boundaries between sacred and secular, classical and popular. A cracker of an album.