JAM: All Things Wear Silence

The Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, Onyx Brass under Nicholas Cleobury , with organist Daniel Cook. Philip Cashian's 'All Things Wear Silence' (world premiere); Tarik O'Regan's 'The Night's Untruth'; Paul Mealor's 'Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal'; Stuart MacRae's 'Two Cairns'; Elizabeth Winters's 'Evening Voluntary'; Phillip Cooke's 'Invocation'; Peter Nickol's 'New Year'. (The John Armitage Memorial trust has commissioned Philip Cashian – head of composition at the Royal Academy of Music – to write for choir, brass and organ and he has responded with 'All Things Wear Silence', a work based on the deeply moving poems by the controversial Valentine Ackland about World War II. Last year's big JAM commission 'The Night's Untruth', by Tarik O'Regan, was one of Time Out's picks of the year, and is performed again here.)