This uplifting prayer for peace is an anthem setting of Thomas Cranmer’s Collect for the Second Sunday after Epiphany. And perhaps in the spirit of the day’s epistle – an exhortation from Romans 12 to practise those gifts received through grace – the composer offers here a beautiful account of his choral idiom: a matter of precisely imagined textures, as sensitive to individual line and contour as to the seamless dovetailing of motifs and harmony, and of majestic, purposefully cadenced phrases i...