James Whitbourn: Luminosity and Other Choral Works

To complete our choral selection this week, here's a dazzling collection of unashamedly tonal new music from James Whitbourn, the extravagantly talented composer, conductor, clinician, writer and – for the past 20 years – producer of the BBC's Carols from King's. Luminosity , his seven-movement celebration of the power of creative love, glows with hypnotic brilliance, fusing powerful vocal writing with seductive eastern influences, while his Evening Canticles for King's and his setting of a prayer by Desmond Tutu (which includes the Archbishop's unmistakeable voice) illustrate the boundless breadth of Whitbourn's choral imagination.