Look How Brightly: Chamber Music by Alex Mills Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum and that is especially so

and that is especially so in the 20th-century English group that ends this album

coinciding with his fruitful ventures into opera

Robert Plane plays the solo part with a flair matched by Pierre-André Valade’s forces

24-bit digital editing: Paul Baxter

Trepak has a deliciously grisly swing while Field Marshall conjures the horrors of battle

Look How Brightly: Chamber Music by Alex Mills Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum and that is especially soSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO Look how brightly offers a portrait of Alex Mills music from the past decade: ten works, many closely linked to moments of change, loss, ritual and renewal, together telling what feels like an intimate, personal story almost, as Nico Muhly writes in the booklet, a sequence of musical diary entries. Across pieces for strings, voice, piano, percussion and tape, including three specially written for contralto Jess