The choir commissioned eight new choral works: •
Sounds: Three Kandinsky Poems (1999) –
David Sawer • ''This Sceptr'd Isle'' (2005) – Paul Ayres • ''Dreaming England (This Sceptr'd Isle)'' (2005) –
Peter McGarr •
Tentatio (2006) –
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi •
Their Lonely Betters (based on a poem by
W. H. Auden) (2007) –
James Lavino •
Love You Big as the Sky (a
Lindisfarne Love Song) (2007) –
Peter McGarr (broadcast in full on BBC Radio 3) •
Three Auden Settings (based on poems by
W. H. Auden) (2008) -
James Lavino •
Visitations (text adapted by James Lavino from the Book of Ezekiel) (2010) -
James Lavino The two works commissioned in 2005 entitled ''This Sceptr'd Isle'' may be the only settings for choir based on the speech in
William Shakespeare's
King Richard II, Act 2 scene 1.
Tentatio,
Love You Big as the Sky and
Visitations were commissioned for the
Tallis Festival, and are 40-part unaccompanied works inspired by Thomas Tallis'
Spem in alium. ==References==