Voicing: SATB, a cappella
By Alexander L'Estrange
This wonderful sacred work for mixed voices is based on John Ireland's well-loved hymn-tune Love Unknown. L'Estrange expertly takes fragments of Ireland's melody, developing, interweaving and re-harmonising them to create a powerful, ethereal sound-world that perfectly reflects the poem's themes of love, sorrow, passion, death and ecstasy.