This album brings together music by two English composers who are also good friends – and both born in East Anglia: Nicholas Barton in Norfolk in 1950 and Christopher Wright in Suffolk in 1954. Moreover, they share a similar musical language: largely tonal, if loosely so, rhythmically alert, transparently but dramatically scored and with a natural feeling for symphonic argument and growth, and a powerful sense of scale.

“Mark Forkgen and his versatile chamber choir Canticum are obviously fully committed to Wright’s music and have done him proud.” – Choir and Organ, January/February 2021 ***** (TOCC0457: Christopher Wright - Sacred Choral Music)

“Stylistically, this music lies within a lineage descended from Herbert Howells, though its harmonic idiom is at times a degree more dissonant, and it often has a rhythmic vigor that makes its style very distinct, so that no-one would mistake it for that composer’s work. But there are many moments of quiet contemplation and introspection as well; Wright covers a wide canvas of perceptions and emotions in his work. Firmly recommended to all collectors of English sacred choral music.” – Fanfare, March/April 2021 (TOCC0457)