London Calling: Choral Works Vox Urbane & Dan Ludford-Thomas

• Jago Thorton (b. 1995): From Telegraph Hill:
• 1 Thornton: From Telegraph Hill 10:23
• Lillie Harris (b. 1994): Margaret:
• 2 Harris: Margaret 05:02
• Emily Hazrati (b. 1998): The Time Has Come…:
• 3 Hazrati: The Time Has Come... 03:12
• Lillie Harris: The Dusk of Thee:
• 4 Harris: The Dusk of Thee 06:17
• Dan Ludford-Thomas (b. 1973): One:
• 5 Ludford-Thomas: One 03:18
• Emily Hazrati: Sweeter than Honey:
• 6 Hazrati: Sweeter than Honey 05:04
• Tara Mack (b. 1972): Good Morning:
• 7 Mack: Good Morning 03:36
• Harlem Night Song:
• 8 Mack: Harlem Night Song 03:31
• Barbara Dudek (b. 1989): The Song of the Sirens:
• 9 Dudek: The Song of the Sirens 05:47
• Kerensa Briggs (b. 1991): Inner Light:
• 10 Briggs: Inner Light 02:24
• Tree At My Window:
• 11 Briggs: Tree At My Window 04:03
• Francis Routh (1927 - 2021): Balulalow:
• 12 Routh: Balulalow 02:28
• At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners:
• 13 Routh: At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners 03:15
• Total Runtime 58:20

Info for London Calling: Choral Works

London Calling is an album that brings together music by composers who live and work in the titular city. The album explores memory, identity and community through a variety of contemporary choral works.

Recorded in Lewisham, the new pieces form a musical map of the city, from Telegraph Hill sunsets to forgotten lives of Londoners. Alongside these commissions written for and premiered by Vox Urbane, the programme reflects on the social, ecological and artistic diversity of the capital.

Vox Urbane
Dan Ludford-Thomas, conductor
Helen Meyerhoff, artistic director

Vox Urbane
is a professional vocal ensemble with diversity at its heart. The co-founders: Dan Ludford-Thomas and Helen Meyerhoff, have worked professionally in classical music collectively for more than fifty years. They have a vision in which all aspiring and gifted musicians regardless of background, can see a tangible and exciting future for themselves as performers, conductors and composers.

Vox Urbane performs canonical repertoire, whilst also introducing new works to re-contextualise and make relevant choral music for new and developing audiences. Its team of professional singers have been selected to represent its core values and are artists of the highest calibre. In tandem with an agenda of creating new works and generating a platform for singers and musicians of diversity, Vox Urbane seeks to nurture a new wave of classical talent.

Vox Urbane is unique. Whilst there are already instrumental groups with comparable missions, no other vocal ensembles exist which fulfil this purpose.

Booklet for London Calling: Choral Works