Joshua Simões

Ruby Hughes, Joshua Simões – Edward Nesbit: Sacred Choral Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:38 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delphian Records

As a young composer, Edward Nesbit was drawn to the rich complexities of contemporary instrumental music; little more than a decade later, he has found himself returning to the inheritance of his early youth as a chorister: the texts of mass, psalms and canticles, and the long centuries of the Anglican choral tradition. Not that there is anything traditional about Nesbit’s music, which synthesises these two heritages into a soundworld that is accessible, full of references yet always recognisably its own voice.
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