Nickel: Requiem Catherine Redding, Northwest Sinfonia, Clyde Mitchell

'In my music, peace and restlessness co-exist continually.' Christopher Tyler Nickel's setting of the Requiem marries the flowing lucidity of plainchant to complex rhythms and meters in 'an uneasy asymmetry'. The result is a steady current of electric energy that gently propels the work ever forward, drawing the listen in in as a fellow traveler on the musical and spiritual journey.