Rubbra: Choral Music

GLOBAL RELEASE DATE: 27 MARCH 2026 SUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO The Choir of Merton College and Benjamin Nicholas here place Rubbra’s sacred music at the heart of his creative life, tracing through his career the composer’s conviction that faith was not a subject to be illustrated but a principle that governed musical thought itself. At the head of the programme is the first recording of Cantata di Camera (Crucifixus pro nobis), in which the choir is joined by tenor Benjamin Hulett and instrumentalists from Britten Sinfonia. In a fascinating contrast to Leighton’s setting of these words from the same year, Rubbra builds a single, continuous span, allowing musical ideas to accumulate in a deeply affecting work whose beauty lies in its patience, its glowing harmonic language and its atmosphere of sustained reflection. Coming Soon.... Reviews will appear here following release date Release date: 27 March 2026 Recorded on 23-25 June 2024 at Merton College, Oxford Producer/Engineer: Paul Baxter 24-bit digital editing: Jack Davis 24-bit digital mastering: Paul Baxter Design: John Christ Booklet editor: Henry Howard Session photography: Will Coates-Gibson/ Foxbrush