Following the success of Howard Goodall’s Enchanted Voices (the best selling specialist classical album of 2009, Gramophone Award winner, and nominated for the NS&I Album of the Year Classical BRIT Award 2010) and the Christmas album Enchanted Carols, the celebrated British composer returns with a new album called Pelican in the Wilderness, released through Classic FM Records. This amazing new release is again fronted by his extraordinary female choral group Enchanted Voices and also features The Tippett Quartet, who provide a lush string soundscape around the stunning ethereal vocals. The album is a collection of newly arranged Psalms, including By The Waters Of Babylon and a new arrangement of his world famous Psalm 23: The Lord Is My Shepherd. The title, Pelican in the Wilderness takes its name from a line in Psalm 102.


Track list

1 BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON / super flumina (Psalm 137)
2 PELICAN IN THE WILDERNESS / pellicano solitudinis (Psalm 102)
3 THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD /     pascit me (Psalm 23) – theme from The Vicar of Dibley
4 O PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM / rogate pacem (Psalm 122)
5 HE SHALL KEEP THE SIMPLE FOLK / deus judicium (Psalm 72)
6 HOW LOVELY ARE THY DWELLINGS / quam dilecta (Psalm 84)
7 A GOOD MAN IS MERCIFUL / in memoria aeterna (Psalm 111)
8 THOU WALKEST WITH ME / tu cognovisti (Psalm 139)
9 OUT OF THE DEEP / de profundis (Psalm 130)
10 HAVE MERCY ON ME / miserere mei (Psalm 51)
11 HEARE, O HEARE ME / in tribulatione (Psalm 4)
12 THOUGH RIVERS ROAR / lavaverunt flumina (Psalm 93)
13 LYKE A FRESHLY PLANTED TREE / iuxta rivulos aquarum (Psalm 1)