This arrangement for choir keyboard and congregation is sure to send chills up the spine!

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Sleep Canticle was writtenin 1974 for the Conference of the National Federation of Gramophone Societies in Norwich. The texts are drawn from the two famous Norwich writers the lady Julian (1343-1443) and Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82). Browne's two verses - from the poem in Religio Medici beginning: 'The night is come like to the day' - are set for all the voices the prose that frames them set as a tenor solo sung by Gordon Pullin. Julian's words overriding the verse ends are given to a solo soprano Alison Furniss.

Commissioned by Jeremy Patterson and the Birmingham Festival Choral Society with a grant from Bimingham City Council.