Michael Berkeley - Collaborations

Includes Michael Berkeley's Haiku, beautifully evocative fragments that capture the quixotic motion of birds, commissioned for Clare by the Presteigne Festival in 2016.

The disc was released by Orchid Classics in June 2024 and is available to stream online. It features a number of solo, chamber and choral works by Michael Berkeley including:

• Haiku 1 - Birds (Clare Hammond)
• Notes on the Loss of a Friend (Madeleine Mitchell)
• Haiku 2 - Insects (Mahan Esfahani)
• Speaking Silence (Alice Coote and Julius Drake)
• The Magnolia Tree (Robert Plane, Rachel Roberts and Chris Hopkins)
• Super Flumina Bablyonis, Released by Love, Cradle Song and Listen, Listen O My Child (BBC Singers, Joshua Ryan, Owain Park, Emma Tring)
• Zero Hour (Neil Tennant, David Gilmour)