Corvus Consort and Louise Thomson’s new CD “Welcome Joy” is available for pre-order, with two pre-release singles now ready to stream.

Corvus Consort and harpist Louise Thomson are pleased to announce that their new album, “Welcome Joy”, recorded last April for Chandos, is available for pre-order ahead of its general release on September 27th.

“Welcome Joy” sees Corvus Consort’s upper voices team up with harpist Louise Thomson, under the direction of Freddie Crowley, to present glorious music for upper voices and harp in celebration of visionary women’s voices, both vocal and compositional. The album takes music by Imogest Host as its cornerstone, and places it alongside music by her father Gustav Holst, a commission by Indian-American composer Shruthi Rajasekar, Elizabeth Poston’s An English Day-Book, and a set of sublime works by living female composers Judith Weir, Hilary Campbell, Gemma McGregor and Olivia Sparkhall.

To pre-order the album, please visit this link. Two singles from the album, Gemma McGregor’s ‘Love was his Meaning’ and ‘The Noonday Heat’ from Elizabeth Poston’s An English Day-Book are available to stream – please click on their respective links to listen. Their third single, Imogen Holst’s ‘Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow’, will be released on September 6th.

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