Tony Hewitt-Jones: Choral Works And Complete Organ Music – Vivum Singers

Many composers who wrote primarily for the English cathedral tradition have not had the recognition they deserve outside that cloistered world[cite: 12]. Tony Hewitt-Jones (1926–89) is one such[cite: 12]. Although the choral and organ works heard on this album naturally respond to the requirements of the performers for whom he was writing, they have a freshness, energy and individuality that transcend their origin, their sound-world overlapping with that of some of his close contemporaries, like John Gardner, Kenneth Leighton and William Mathias[cite: 12].