O Western Wind...

Making her Choral Now debut, young composer Sarah Cattley marks the RVW150 celebrations with an exquisite setting of heartfelt words by the composer’s widow Ursula. A passionate lover’s elegy, her poem evokes the beautiful medieval song Westron Wynde, which in a brilliant imaginative stroke Cattley weaves into the setting to make a priceless a cappella miniature.

Lasting around three minutes and a joy to sing, O Western Wind … An anniversary will be the focal point for many concerts celebrating the composer – and his beloved wife, whom many will recall with great affection – in the anniversary year of VW’s birth.