Look How Brightly: Chamber Music by Alex Mills Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum Robert Plane plays the solo

Robert Plane plays the solo part with a flair matched by Pierre-André Valade’s forces

Werner and her colleagues make music that is as singular as it is striking"

Session photography: Valya Korabelnikova

and that is especially so in the 20th-century English group that ends this album

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Look How Brightly: Chamber Music by Alex Mills Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum Robert Plane plays the soloSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO Look how brightly offers a portrait of Alex Mills music from the past decade: ten works, many closely linked to moments of change, loss, ritual and renewal, together telling what feels like an intimate, personal story almost, as Nico Muhly writes in the booklet, a sequence of musical diary entries. Across pieces for strings, voice, piano, percussion and tape, including three specially written for contralto Jess