Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars present world premiere recordings of works written for them by Nico Muhly. Phillips says that Muhly “immediately understood our particular sound and a succession of masterpieces followed, each as powerful as the last.” The title work is a setting of Jeremiah’s Lamentations, interspersed with contemporary interviews with people from the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants to the UK who, as Muhly says, “found themselves in various ways stateless, detained, and denied benefits.” Recordare, Domine also sets texts from Lamentations, while Marrow is a setting of Psalm 63, which treats similar themes of bodily hardship and danger in an alien environment. Rough Notes, using austere counterpoint and unstable harmonies, draws from Captain Scott’s diary on his doomed mission to the Antarctic. Prosperitie was written to celebrate Peter Phillips’s 70th birthday, and A Glorious Creature praises the glory of the soul and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Tallis Scholars.

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