Benjamin Till trained as a composer at York University and is best known as a pioneer in the field of the TV documentary musical, where "real" people tell their own stories through song. He was the conceiver, writer and one of the grooms from Channel 4's BAFTA-nominated Our Gay Wedding: The Musical. His musical Brass won the UK Theatre Award for Best Musical Production, 2014. This is his fourth album. Previous albums include The London Requiem, a setting of gravestone inscriptions from across the capital. The work was premiered in an East London graveyard at dusk and the album features cameo performances from Tanita Tikaram, Maddie Prior, the Balanescu String Quartet, Matt Lucas, playwright Sir Arnold Wesker and Dame Barbara Windsor! "Benjamin Till has the most authentic British musical voice since Howard Goodall" (Mark Shenton) The Pepys Motet started life as a 40-part motet, but was re-scored for 20 voices in 2012. Sessions for the album began in 2013, as and when the composer could afford to hire a studio! The material took 250 hours to mix. Producer Paul Kendall (ex Mute records) left no stone unturned in his quest to create the most astonishing sonic experience. This is classical music the like of which you'll have never heard. Best listened to on head phones to hear the subtlety! The Pepys Motet is accompanied by Benjamin's ambitious 2009 composition, Oranges and Lemons, which features genuine recordings of every bell in every church mentioned in the longer version of the famous nursery rhyme. Each bell was analysed for pitch and timbre and painstakingly brought together in a recording studio so that the bells could ring together in harmony. The work features 200 individual bells, and 4000 individual bell strikes alongside the Rebel Chorus and the organ at the Swiss Church, Covent Garden played by Peter Yadley-Jones.