MCCARTHY, J.: Codebreaker / TODD, W.: Choral Symphony No. 4, "Ode to a Nightingale" (J. Doyle, Hertfordshire Chorus, BBC Concert Orchestra, D. Temple)
Hertfordshire Chorus continue to build on their reputation for commissioning and performing some of the very best in contemporary choral music. In their first recording with Signum they are joined by the BBC Concert Orchestra for a 2CD set featuring James McCarthy’s Codebreaker (an exploration of the life of the pioneering computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing) and Will Todd’s Ode to a Nightingale (setting the famous poem by John Keats).