Today's Video of the Day is a performance of Alice Beckwith's 'Tomorrow, at dawn' by The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge and their Director of Music Steven Grahl. The text is from a poem by Victor Hugo, translated by Anna Beckwith. This composition and filmed performance were commissioned as part of the Choir & Organ New Music 2025 series, in partnership with The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge. New Music is a series of specially commissioned pieces for choir or organ written by some of the most talented young composers around.

Beckwith says: ‘Last autumn in France I saw this poem inscribed beneath a bust of the poet. It’s written in memory of his daughter who drowned in the Seine, and tells of him going to visit her grave to lay flowers. This exquisite text was my starting point. Simultaneously, we were singing Lili Boulanger’s setting of Psalm 130 in the Hallé Choir. I found it interesting to see how she structured her music and used the voices in different groups.’