John Armitage lives on in concert

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Last night’s anniversary concert, conducted expertly by Nicholas Cleobury, featured four JAM commissions and two works submitted to the Trust.
The second part of a double commission from Gabriel Jackson, spanning eight months, Yet we who Neither Burn nor Shine was well worth waiting for. His sensitive setting of Colin Tan’s text reaches a beatific climax with the line "Who shine like sons in Father’s love".

The sense of the words, which must have had a special resonance for Armitage’s son, Edward, the driving force behind JAM, is enhanced by delaying the entry of the solo trumpet (Niall Keatley), which then rhapsodises ecstatically over the choral texture.

No less moving was Paul Patterson’s The Fifth Continent, an imaginative setting of a poetic text by Ben Kaye for countertenor (Andrew Radley), choir (Selwyn College, Cambridge), brass quintet (Onyx Brass) and organ (Daniel Cook). The mystery of the Kentish wetland wilderness is skilfully evoked with the help of offstage voices and instruments.

There was another welcome performance for Hannah Kendall’s subtly conceived setting of Donne’s Nativity, while Richard Peat’s Winter Landscape, inspired by the Caspar David Friedrich picture of that name, resourcefully mirrors the elements of landscape painting in a piece largely for solo trumpet, with shifting perspectives provided by organ and choir (the latter intoning the carol Down in Yon Forest).

Winter Landscape Concert
Sr Margaret's Westminster