Any hint of the routine – the choir’s director Andrew Nethsingha has over 8,000 evensong services to his credit – is immediately dissipated in a rapt rendition of Julian Anderson’s anthem My beloved spake...Taverner’s five-part Dum transisset Sabbatum boasts immaculate balancing of the voice strands, the vernal treble line a particular pleasure.

few can have the distinctive qualities of Grace Davidson’s issue: absolute purity of a single voice, perfectly modulated in all its details and gliding effortlessly through the often tortuously difficult music.