This recording is a rollercoaster ride. Harvey Brough's now-familiar Requiem in Blue welds jazz singers and musicians with traditional choirs and wonderful children's voices to produce a collage of sound and emotion. More reflective, and altogether more successful, is his searing Valete in Pace, written for the 60th anniversary of D-Day and featuring Portsmouth Cathedral Choir, which gave it its premiere. Tenor Mark Le Broq is a stunning soloist, tearing at our hearts with Lee Hall's disquieting text.