There Is No Speech Or Language

Contemporary British composer and conductor James Whitbourn, an award-winning creator of Choral music, film and television scores and works for the concert hall may be best known for his largest composition, theoratorio Annalies, which sets words from The Diary of Anne Frank. The text in this extract is not Anne Frank’s, but is drawn from Psalms and Lamentations. The stately chordal movement lends an appropriately solemn tone to awork that has understated power.