As one of Britain's most respected and versatile musicians, Bennett has produced over two hundred works for the concert hall, and fifty scores for film and television, as well as having been a writer and performer of jazz songs for fifty years. Studies with Boulez in the 1950s immersed him in the techniques of the European avant-garde, though he subsequently developed his own distinctive dramato-abstract style. Sacred and secular texts, showing the range of the composer's choral writing skill, from carols and liturgical settings to Shakespeare and Lear. Arranged for unaccompanied voices, which choirs of differing abilities will find accessible, delightful and involving performance material.