Founded in 2000 as a memorial to the trumpet player John Armitage, the foundation known as JAM has premiered some 50 new works, commissioning many of them. In this event featuring the BBC Singers and Onyx Brass under the baton of Nicholas Cleobury, three premieres were given, alongside revivals of pieces the foundation commissioned in its early years.

Richard Peat's Fiery the Angels set Timothy Knapman's apocalyptic poem for solo baritone and brass ensemble, with Giles Underwood delivering a vehement account of a text warning against ecological disaster. But in what is an unruly acoustic, Peat's brass writing drowned out the words at crucial moments. Hannah Kendall's Fundamental took a more personal and mystical text by Rick Holland, decorating it with non-pitched brass air notes and whispered sounds that offered more atmospherics than substance.

The most impressive was Tarik O'Regan's The Night's Untruth, with standout soloists from the BBC Singers and organist Stephen Disley adding to the rich, complex textures that maximised the potential of the musical material. In this setting of extracts from poems dealing with sleep by Keats, Shakespeare, Samuel Daniel and Hart Crane, O'Regan's technical skills are superb, and the result has a directness that is perfectly matched by the subtlety of its means.

In bringing back Timothy Jackson's imaginative 2002 No Answer, settings of poems by political prisoners, and Jonathan Dove's vivid 2003 Emily Dickinson cantata The Far Theatricals of Day, JAM reaffirmed its worthy commitment to providing multiple performances for new works.

Details: jamconcert.org/