This a capella anthem, Virtue, was written in 1978, just after completing the song-cycle Care-Charmer Sleep, (Goodmusic GM265). The melody and harmonies of the closing bars of the first of four songs in the cycle, The Good Morrow by John Donne, are quoted in the closing bars of the anthem, albeit with different words from a different metaphysical poet, George Herbert. The anthem is dedicated to Timothy Salter and the Ionian Singers, who gave its first performance in St Johns, Smith Square a few years later.
- ISMN: 9790222309951 (M222309951)