The eight singers of Voces8, violinist Jack Liebeck and a studio full of colleagues come together for a recording heavy on the kind of choral music that lunges for the heartstrings. Conducted by Barnaby Smith, it takes its title from a new work by Taylor Scott Davis, described as a Concerto for Violin, Choir and Orchestra. This sets one medieval poem and two newly written responses, with sweetly glowing passages for choir and violin finally conquering the darker orchestra.

Otherwise we hear arrangements, mostly new, of existing music. Vaughan Williams’s violin concerto The Lark Ascending is performed in a mashup of two versions, with both orchestra and choir – mostly wordless, though there’s a jolt when the basses start singing the poetry that inspired the composer, briefly drawing focus from Liebeck’s beautifully coloured violin. There’s Rebecca Dale’s The Cloths of Heaven, shoehorning WB Yeats’s poem into a foursquare, sentimental tune, and Eric Whitacre’s evocative Sleep. Britten’s anthem Rejoice in the Lamb gets a refreshingly unchurchy performance in Imogen Holst’s orchestral arrangement. As this orchestra has some leading soloists among its ranks we get the luxury of Julian Bliss on clarinet, vividly portraying the poet’s twisting, sunbathing cat.