The New Winter Songbook

The New Winter Songbook — a panorama of new songs for winter

Rebecca Lea, soprano; Caroline Jaya-Ratnam, piano.

Jamie W Hall: Dust of Snow
Errolyn Wallen: North
Judith Weir: On White Meadows
Jessica Dannheiser: Winter Fragments
Eoghan Desmond: The Darkest Midnight
Adam Gorb: Frost Fair
Héloïse Werner: Winter Spell
Martin Bussey: Twelfth Night
Helen Neeves: Cradle Song
Ben Nobuto: Sundowning
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: The Core of Time
James Weeks: Natural State
Peter Foggitt: Villanelle: New Year's Eve
Michael Betteridge: Snow Day
Anita Datta: Seasonal Clothing
Sun Keting: The Nineteenth Night of December
Cecilia McDowall: Christmas Eve at Sea

The New Winter Songbook is a collection of twenty-one songs for voice and piano by a diverse range of living British composers, featuring contemporary musical settings and lyrical responses to the winter season. The songs were commissioned and recorded in 2025 and released as a double disc album in November of that year. Established British composers rub shoulders with up and coming new voices within this compelling, lyrical and highly engaging programme performed by soprano Rebecca Lea and pianist Caroline Jaya-Ratnam.

See more about the project at: https://conviviumrecords.co.uk/product/the-new-winter-songbook/ and https://www.rebeccalea.co.uk/new-winter-songbook.html