Leighton:
Missa Christi
A Hymn to the Trinity

Holst:
Ave Maria
Nunc Dimittis

Rebecca Clarke:
Ave Maria

Harold Drake:
O Brotherman

The Crown of Life continues the Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford’s explo- ration of overlooked treasures in twentieth-century English choral music under Owen Rees. At its centre is the first recording of Kenneth Leighton’s Missa Chris- ti (1988), the composer’s final large-scale sacred work, commissioned by Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis. Alongside it are world premiere recordings of Har- old Darke’s Blessed is the man that endureth temptation and Imogen Holst’s Out of your sleep arise and wake. Works by Rebecca Clarke and Gustav Holst complete the programme, offering a richly varied portrait of composers linked by study with Stanford and united in sacred expression.