Featuring music by: Tavener—Palestrina—Howells—Arvo Pärt—Rutter—Bardos­—Rachmaninov—Victoria This recording was made in response to demand for this world–renowned choir to record some of their regular working repertoire as toured and broadcast worldwide. Directed by David Ogden and recorded in the superb acoustic at Clifton, here you have over an hour of meditative and uplifting music. Palestrina’s serene Sicut Cervus, Tavener’s Hymn to Athene and The Lamb show a quality of spirituality sustained throughout the ages, whereas Rachmaninoff and Bardos represent the voice of the Eastern Church. Our English heritage too is represented through Stanford, Ireland and Rutter as well as Jerusalem, orchestrated by David Ogden for BBC’s Songs of Praise. I See His Blood by David Ogden (orch. Jeffrey-Gray) and the Salve Regina by Richard Jeffrey–Gray are two new compositions written for the liturgy at Clifton Cathedral. Here they are heard with strings and oboe. The title track, And I Saw a New Heaven, eloquently expresses the words from Revelation in Bainton's setting. Mark Holt rounds off the cd with Howells’ Paen: a shout of joy from the organ. The voices of Clifton Cathedral Choir unite with strings, harp, wind, trumpet and organ. They all hope that you may find with them an intimation of heaven in this music.