US TARIFFS UPDATE | August 2025 | No impact expected on your Presto orders | Read full details
Bob Chilcott: All Good Things
Alexander Hawkins (piano)
Commotio, Matthew Berry, Bob Chilcott
Is it jazz? Is it classical? Does it matter? Yes, maybe and no, are probably the answers…Of the shorter pieces the unaccompanied Weather Report provides the Commotio singers the opportunity...
Bob Chilcott: All Good Things
Alexander Hawkins (piano)
Commotio, Matthew Berry, Bob Chilcott
Purchase product
Is it jazz? Is it classical? Does it matter? Yes, maybe and no, are probably the answers…Of the shorter pieces the unaccompanied Weather Report provides the Commotio singers the opportunity...
About
Bob Chilcott is one of Britain’s most popular and respected composers and his choral music is performed worldwide. He has always embraced a broad stylistic palette and his writing for voice combined with jazz instrumentation gives these works a sense of vitality and energy. Performed by leading jazz soloists and Commotio, the distinguished promoters of contemporary repertoire, this sequence of brilliant villanelles, folk song arrangements and witty settings reveals once again the breadth of Chilcott’s musical imagination. Chilcott has enjoyed a lifelong association with choral music, as a composer, conductor, and singer. He was a chorister and choral scholar in the choir of King’s College, Cambridge and for twelve years was a member of the vocal group The King’s Singers. In 1997 he became a full time composer. A Little Jazz Mass, Requiem, and St. John Passion are among a number of works from his prolific output which are performed worldwide. He has written large-scale works, including The Angry Planet, community-based projects, pieces for children, and a significant amount of music for the church. In 2017 Chilcott was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of The Royal School of Church Music.
Contents and tracklist
- Sue Greenway (saxophone), Raphael Mizraki (double bass), Jon Scott (drums), Alexander Hawkins (piano)
- Commotio
- Bob Chilcott
- Recorded: 2-4 September 2016
- Recording Venue: SJE, the Church of St John the Evangelist, Oxford, UK
- Raphael Mizraki (double bass), Jon Scott (drums), Alexander Hawkins (piano)
- Commotio
- Bob Chilcott
- Bob Chilcott (piano)
- Commotio
- Matthew Berry
- Raphael Mizraki (double bass), Jon Scott (drums), Alexander Hawkins (piano)
- Commotio
- Matthew Berry
- Recorded: 2-4 September 2016
- Recording Venue: SJE, the Church of St John the Evangelist, Oxford, UK
- Commotio
- Bob Chilcott
- Raphael Mizraki (double bass), Jon Scott (drums), Alexander Hawkins (piano)
- Commotio
- Bob Chilcott
- Raphael Mizraki (double bass), Jon Scott (drums), Alexander Hawkins (piano)
- Commotio
- Bob Chilcott
- Recorded: 2-4 September 2016
- Recording Venue: SJE, the Church of St John the Evangelist, Oxford, UK
Spotlight on this release
-
An error occurred.
Try watching this video on www.youtube.com, or enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser.
Awards and reviews
December 2017
Is it jazz? Is it classical? Does it matter? Yes, maybe and no, are probably the answers…Of the shorter pieces the unaccompanied Weather Report provides the Commotio singers the opportunity to show their paces technically, and they turn in an appropriately dashing performance.
November/December 2017
The rhythmic Gloria of the Nidaros Jazz Mass made me smile, and the Agnus Dei was touching. Commotio are no strangers to the composer’s music and give very persuasive performances.