The choral music of Richard Lambert, born in Bath in the English West Country in 1951, covers a wide range of expression, ranging on this album from straightforward SATB settings for church performance to a sardonic parody of the excesses of established religion. It also encompasses the timeless and the timely, with a number of contributions to the age-old tradition of Christmas music to a cantata inspired by the Covid pandemic.This is the first recording of the Accordare Choir, founded and conducted by Karolina Csáthy, initially using former choral scholars of The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge; since then it has expanded in size, scope and accomplishment.TracksThe Jackdaw of Rheims (1995/2018) (12:46)Prayer and Supplication (1979, rev. 2020) (9:20)Lord, Make us Instruments of Thy Peace (1993) (3:14)A Christmas SequenceAll was for an Apple (2020) (2:15)Herrick’s Carol (1995) (4:18)Hodie Christus natus est (2012) (2:44)O Magnum Mysterium (2012) (2:54)Away in a Manger (2009) (2:26)The Holly and the Ivy (2012) (3:30)There was Sweet Music (2019) (5:34)The Wind among the Reeds (2016-17) (10:03)…a plague o’ your houses (2021) (15:12)