A unique collaboration between Will Todd and the Choir of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Evensong in Blue is a jazz celebration of the ancient tradition of Choral Evensong. The disc also features new arrangements of favourite hymns Amazing Grace, O When the Saints go Marching in, Glory to Thee my God this Night and Give me Joy in my heart and new works Bring us, O Lord God and Come Down and Hold Me.

1. Give me Joy in my Heart (4’20)

2. Glory to Thee my God this Night (3’43)

3. Amazing Grace (7’05)

4. Lighting the Way (3’33

5-7. The Psalms (124, 125, 126)* (10’52)

8. Magnificat* (5’41)

9. Nunc Dimittis* (4’44

10. Lord’s Prayer* (3’23)

11. Final Prayers and Collects* (4’26)

12. Bring us, O Lord God (4’54)

13. O When the Saints (3’45)

14. Come Down and Hold Me (4’36)

*Evensong sections from the Durham Jazz Evensong, commissioned by St Oswald’s Church Durham in 2008)

The Choir of St Martin-in-the-Fields

Will Todd Ensemble

conducted by Andrew Earis

Recorded in St Martin-in-the-Fields on 31st January and 1st February 2011

Engineer: Richard Sutcliffe

Post-production and editing: Gareth Huw Davies at Signal Creative

Producers: Will Todd and Andrew Earis