Stuart MacRae: Earth, thy cold is keen Sian Dicker Judith Ward's Versicle and Responses

Judith Ward's Versicle and Responses emerge as a genuine revelation—refreshingly original yet deeply respectful of tradition

some of them in world premiere recordings

Total Playing Time: 61: 50

it is present in his harmonic language

there is something carnivalesque about Revelries

Stuart MacRae: Earth, thy cold is keen Sian Dicker Judith Ward's Versicle and ResponsesSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO In 2021, Stuart MacRae heard a recorded performance by mezzo soprano Lotte Betts Dean of The Lif of this World, his 2008 setting of an anonymous Middle English lyric. Entranced by the way she shaped its phrases and ornamentation, he immediately began to conceive new works for her voice, solo or lightly accompanied, as well as to bring to completion several other works in progress. This extraordinary flurry of