Cherubim
Music Trust
(Charity No: 1088403)

Toril Azzalini-Machecler plats Ghanaia by Matthias Schmitt on the Cherubim marimba at Cherubim Youth Music Festival ’18 Cherubim Music Trust is a charity that loans professional-calibre orchestral instruments to advanced music students in the UK, aged 15-25, who cannot afford one that matches their ability. See http://cherubimtrust.org/

Joel Nulsen, bass with Gabriella Jones, violin, Josh Salter, cello, & Michael Maxwell Steer, harpsichord. Recorded at Cherubim Youth Music Festival ’18. 16 Sep 2018 in Tisbury, Wilts, UK.   Stürze zu Boden Cantata BWV126 :: Leipzig 1725 Cast to the ground those who are pompous or proud! May their plans be thwarted! Let the hell suddenly devour them, and the furious attacks the enemy be defeated. Deny them their desire! Cherubim Music Trust is a charity that loans professional-calibre orchestral instruments to advanced music students in the UK, aged 15-25, who cannot afford one that matches their ability. See http://cherubimtrust.org/ Gabriella Jones performs on the Trust's 1752 'Keith Dale' violin by J Kloz. Josh Salter performs on the Trust's 1828 cello by John Corsby. Sponsored by Catchpole Law

TURN ON CAPTIONS to read subtitles Sam Cook soprano, Solomon Hayes alto, Michæl Maxwell Steer harpsichord, with Patrick Keefe & Joel Nulsen. Recorded at Cherubim Youth Music Festival - 16 Sep 2018 A Carowle for Christmas Day – William Byrd (Songs of Sundrie Nature, 1589) 1. An earthly tree a heavenly fruit it bear, A case of clay contained a crown immortal A crown of crowns, a King whose cost and care Redeemed poor man, whose race before was thrall To death, to doom, to pains of everlasting, By His sweet death, scorns, stripes, and often fasting. 2. A star above the stars, a sun of light, Whose blessed beams this wretched earth bespread With hope of heavenv and of God’s Son the sight, Which in our flesh and sinful soul lay dead. O faith, O hope, O joys renowned for ever, O lively life that deathless shall persever. 3. Then let us sing the lullabys of sleep To this sweet babe, born to awake us all From drowsy sin that made old Adam weep, And by his fault gave to mankind the fall. For lo! this day, the birth day, day of days, Summons our songs to give Him laud and praise. Chorus Cast of all doubtful care, exile and banish tears, To joyful news divine, lend us your list’ning ears. Cherubim Music Trust is a charity that loans professional-calibre orchestral instruments to advanced music students in the UK, aged 15-25, who cannot afford one that matches their ability. See http://cherubimtrust.org/

To get the full benefit of the poetry, TURN ON CAPTIONS in the settings (below right). The Quiet Spaces by Sally Purcell 1. Eternal Image 2. First Mystery https://youtu.be/3iHLymkkKus?t=124 3. Poem for Lent or Advent https://youtu.be/3iHLymkkKus?t=250 4. Magi https://youtu.be/3iHLymkkKus?t=382 5. I see them walking in an air of glory https://youtu.be/3iHLymkkKus?t=539 6. Rilke https://youtu.be/3iHLymkkKus?t=756 Poems written 1985-1997 by Sally Purcell (1945-1998) https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=588 Music composed 2012 by Michæl Maxwell Steer (1946-) http://msteer.co.uk/ Performed by The Lacock Scholars, conductor Greg Skidmore, at Cherubim Youth Music Festival, 15 Sep 2018 in Wiltshire. 1 Eternal Image Eternal image, able to roam throughout the inconceivable, descended into deprivation to make earth once articulate in man's body Christ glorified, matter given shaping speech according to His word. In this place of separation where buried Osiris blackens, man's own images may recall some dignity of their distant source of harmony in God's mind, as matter given shaping speech echoing His word. Lake and Labyrinth 1985 2 First Mystery She who is to be God's garden waits at the heart of stillness. All paths have led to this moment. The angel bows before humility and innocence in their house of gold, their power to change all worlds. Between them on the lily's boughs* a man hangs crucified. undated manuscript 3 Pœm for Lent or Advent Signs and shadows have been gathering reality as they rush upward to the surface of time; they break into our minds’ air, snatch us through knowledge of the visible, through the game of images, into that Love Who sawed both cross and cradle out of the same tree. Fossil Unicorn 1997 4 Magi Magi moving among the stars intricately carve smooth air, polish and plane it like stone, Under another sun reveal map and fossil in its veins. Their tranquil roads of solitude, almost immortal, run close to ours, parallel a moment, then swirling out, comet-like, into the night of years. Within their crowned glass alembic reposes a flaw, stain or garden – the moment of human magic before Pentecostal cracking and crying of thunder. Lake and Labyrinth 1985 5 I see them walking in the Air of glory Hedged around by golden light the blessèd move in labyrinth or procession of prayer within unbroken Eden, among living waters and small tame hills – motionless in mosaic's book of air. Delight that has roots in the body's debatable ground is not here destroyed, but transmuted, raised to a higher power. Lake and Labyrinth 1985 Envoi: Rilke Even if we know love’s landscape and the little churchyard with its mourning names, and the frighteningly silent ravine for which others are bound, time & again we walk together under ancient trees, time & again lie down among the flowers opposite the sky. Lake and Labyrinth 1985

Performed by Sean Norris, Jamie Farrington, Finn Murphy.at Cherubim Youth Music Festival ’18, 14 Sep 2018 at Compton Marbling, Fonthill Gifford, Wiltshire Inheritance. Inspired more by questions that ask whether something is possible rather than what something means, Inheritance develops the concepts of synchronicity and information exchange in musical performance. Each performer controls a digital synthesiser using a LEAP Motion controller. The synthesizers are set up to interpret the distance between a performer’s hands as a value to define the pitch of one of the synthesizer’s oscillators. When a performer claps, their synthesizer samples the hand distances of the other two performers, and uses the information to control a range of parameters which define pitch and other features according to a predetermined set of patterns, within which the performers’ free improvisation takes place. Sean Norris composes music and makes digital art with computers, musical instruments and soldering irons. Also a GSMD student, he is influenced by electronic music, hardcore rock, and commercial media installations, his work focuses on creating intersectional experiences with audio and visuals, as well as on exploring custom interfaces with which to create sound and music. Cherubim Music Trust is a charity that loans professional-calibre orchestral instruments to advanced music students in the UK, aged 15-25, who cannot afford one that matches their ability. See http://cherubimtrust.org/

Performed by Kirsty McLean and the Cherubim Chamber Soloists, directed from the piano and arranged by Felix Rigg. Recorded at Cherubim Youth Music Festival September 2018 Cherubim Music Trust is a charity that loans professional-calibre orchestral instruments to advanced music students in the UK, aged 15-25, who cannot afford one that matches their ability. See http://cherubimtrust.org/

Patrick Keefe, baritone & the Lacock Scholars, dir Greg Skidmore, with Gabriella Jones, violin, Josh Salter, cello, & Michael Maxwell Steer, harpsichord. Recorded at Cherubim Youth Music Festival ’18 16 Sep 2018 in Tisbury, Wilts, UK.   Welt Ade (Cantata BWV158 :: Weimar 1713-17) Aria. World, farewell, I am tired of you, the tents of Salem stand before me where in rest and peace, forever happy, I shall behold God. There I shall delight to dwell, there shine in glory with a heavenly crown. Chorale. World, farewell! I am tired of you, I want to go to heaven: true peace and eternal, glorious rest await me there. World! To you belong war and conflict, all is pure vanity: in heaven lies eternal peace, joy and happiness. Recit. Now, Lord control my mind, so that for as long as it pleases you to leave me in the world I may be a child of peace. Let me depart from my sorrows in peace like Simeon! Airoso. There I shall stay, there I shall delight to dwell, there shine in glory with a heavenly crown. Chorale. Here is the true Easter-lamb, sacrificed by God in warmest love high Cherubim Music Trust is a charity that loans professional-calibre orchestral instruments to advanced music students in the UK, aged 15-25, who cannot afford one that matches their ability. See http://cherubimtrust.org/