Concertgoers in Brisbane, Canberra and Sydney who caught Voces8 and Jack Liebeck live earlier this year will need no encouragement to add To Sing of Love to their collections given several pieces here were featured in those concerts.

Setting a medieval Welsh poem and two new responses to it, the title track – a concerto for violin, choir and orchestra cast as an effusive triptych with a solemn preface by Taylor Scott Davis – is a painterly exercise in light and shade, angelic choral voices and sweetly-singing violin silhouetted against darker orchestral hues. It receives its first recording here alongside three other pieces new to disc. 

Paul Drayton’s arrangement of The Lark Ascending is lit up by Liebeck’s soulful, soaring violin, ethereally cosseted by wordless vocals then robustly accompanied by the George Meredith poem that inspired Vaughan Williams. It’s rather beautiful and mesmerising. New, too, is Rebecca Dale’s achingly tender setting of WB Yeats’ The Cloths of Heaven, and Eric Whitacre’s Sleep, Jim Clements’ orchestration adding becoming grandeur to its...