Today’s video of the day is a performance of Running Set: Spring from Elizabeth Poston’s An English Day-Book performed by Corvus Consort and Louise Thomson.

An English Day-Book is a cycle charting a day in the English countryside. The complete cycle can be heard on their new album, Welcome Joy – A Celebration of Women’s Voices, which is released today on Chandos Records. This is the first recording of a new performing edition of the work published by Multitude of Voyces.

Welcome Joy sees Corvus Consort’s upper voices team up with harpist Louise Thomson, under the direction of Freddie Crowley, to present music celebrating visionary women’s voices, both vocal and compositional. The album is completed with a set of works by living female composers Judith Weir, Hilary Campbell, Gemma McGregor and Olivia Sparkhall.

Corvus Consort and Louise Thomson will perform repertoire from Welcome Joy this evening, 27 September, as part of Islington Proms in London.

Find out more: corvusconsort.co.uk