Choir of the Queen’s College Oxford / Owen Rees THE HOUSE OF THE MIND

This Friday, 8 June, sees the release of House of the Mind, the Choir’s new CD. The Choir celebrates the works of choral music icon Herbert Howells in a disc that sets his works alongside pieces that they inspired and influenced – such as Nico Muhly’s Like as the Hart for choir, solo violin and percussion – as well as works that, in turn, influenced him. The disc features two world premiere recordings by David Bednall: settings of two Marian Antiphons Alma redemptoris mater and Ave regina caelorum that ‘complete’ the partly-lost set of works that Howells wrote for Westminster Cathedral.