SKEMPTON: The Cloths Of Heaven - The Exon Singers, Matthew Owens

Best known as a composer of exquisitely quirky miniatures for solo piano or accordion, Howard Skempton has in recent years developed an equally strong affinity for the choral medium. The Exon Singers’ programme includes a new Missa brevis composed especially for this recording, alongside songs and shorter choral and organ pieces surveying Skempton’s output over the past quarter-century. 1        Upon My Lap My Sovereign Sits    2:212        O Saviour Of The World    1:473        Locus Iste    1:564        The Song Of Songs    1:425        O Life!    4:296        Nature's Fire (for Organ)    5:267        Adam Lay Y-bounden    1:22Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis (Edinburgh Service)    8        Magnificat    4:149        Nunc Dimittis    2:05Lamentations    (11:41)10        I. How Sits This City    2:4211        II. I Am The Man    6:2312        III. The Anointed Lord    0:4613        IV. For Oughtest Thou, O Lord    1:5014        Beati Quorum Via    2:2715        Emerson Songs    7:0916