Jonathan Dove (1959-)
It sounded as if the Streets were running

Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012)
The Insect World

The Aviary

Howard Skempton (1947-)
Five Poems of Mary Webb

Sally Beamish (1956-)
Seven Songs

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Friday Afternoons, op. 7

Frederick Brown, piano
The St Catherine's Girls' Choir of Cambridge
Edward Wickham, direction

The St Catharine’s Girls’ Choir, Cambridge, with director Edward Wickham, celebrate ten years since their foundation with this album of works for upper voices. In marking the momentous occasion in 2008 when St Catharine’s created the first college-based girls’ choir, the current choristers of this acclaimed group present a varied programme of secular works from British composers including Britten, Bennett and a world premiere by Sally Beamish.