New. Will Todd: the Promise
Will Todd
New. Will Todd: the Promise
Will Todd
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The Promise: Jazz Inspired Music for Advent and Christmas brings together two distinct programmes by English composer Will Todd, performed by St Martin’s Voices and the Will Todd Ensemble under director Andrew Earis.
The centrepiece is The Promise, Todd’s third large-scale jazz oratorio, commissioned by the Soochow University Alumni Choir and premiered in Taiwan in December 2025, setting Advent and Christmas texts alongside an original lyric by the composer. The album also presents a new recording of Todd’s popular jazz carol arrangements, originally commissioned by St Martin-in-the-Fields in 2012 and reissued here in updated editions, with St Martin’s Brass.
Contents and tracklist
- Bethany Halliday (vocalist)
- Will Todd Ensemble, St Martin's Voices
- Andrew Earis
trad.:
A Jazz Christmas / 9 Well-Known Carols with a Jazz Twist (Arr. for ensemble by Will Todd)
Work length4:43
- Will Todd Ensemble, St Martin's Voices, St Martin's Brass
- Andrew Earis
Holst:
A Jazz Christmas / 9 Well-Known Carols with a Jazz Twist (Arr. for ensemble by Will Todd): No. 3, In The Bleak Midwinter
Work length4:45
- Will Todd Ensemble, St Martin's Voices
- Andrew Earis
Gauntlett:
A Jazz Christmas / 9 Well-Known Carols with a Jazz Twist (Arr. for ensemble by Will Todd): No. 4, Once in Royal David's City
Work length5:01
- Will Todd Ensemble, St Martin's Voices
- Andrew Earis
trad.:
A Jazz Christmas / 9 Well-Known Carols with a Jazz Twist (Arr. for ensemble by Will Todd)
Work length7:20
- Laura Newey (vocalist)
- Will Todd Ensemble, St Martin's Voices
- Andrew Earis
Gruber, F:
A Jazz Christmas / 9 Well-Known Carols with a Jazz Twist (Arr. for ensemble by Will Todd): No. 7, Silent Night
Work length4:56
- Laura Newey (vocalist)
- Will Todd Ensemble, St Martin's Voices, St Martin's Brass
- Andrew Earis
Hopkins, J H:
A Jazz Christmas / 9 Well-Known Carols with a Jazz Twist (Arr. for ensemble by Will Todd): No. 8, We Three Kings
Work length4:38
- Will Todd Ensemble, St Martin's Voices, St Martin's Brass
- Andrew Earis
Tormé:
A Jazz Christmas / 9 Well-Known Carols with a Jazz Twist (Arr. for ensemble by Will Todd): No. 9, The Christmas Song
Work length4:07
- Will Todd Ensemble, St Martin's Voices, St Martin's Brass
- Andrew Earis
