Last year's commissioned piece for the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College, Cambridge was composed by Michael Berkeley - a setting of an anonymous medieval carol text, This Endernight. It is one of the more straightforward compositions among the impressive corpus of King's commissions that has emerged over recent decades, suitable for many choirs to perform. It has a measured, ostinato-style idiom that gives a purposeful build-up over its four-and-a-half minute duration, shifting from E flat major up into F and finally, for the last three bars, to G major