Talbot: The Path of Miracles

"From it's opening eerie rising vocal glissando for the gentlemen of Nigel Short's Tenebrae, to the final pilgrims having reached Finisterre, west of Santiago - when the singers disappear from view, singing and chanting into the distance until all that is left is silence, Joby Talbot's ambitious a cappella 'Path of Miracles' is little short of a musical miracle itself.Postponed from its original première date of 7th July, because of the bomb atrocities that hit London earlier that day..... Audiences remembered the fatalities of 7/7 beforehand in silent contemplation and then in prayer before each performance.... I would go as far to suggest that this is to the first decade of the 21st century what Arvo Pärt's 'Passio' was twenty years earlier." Classical Source, City of London Festival, live review