Rest, was commissioned in 2013 by PRS for Music Foundation for Lady Maisery. It is scored for three singers: first and second soprano and alto. Lyrics are by Toby Litt.

The score is available at http://bit.ly/2jCsFfW

The song cycle is made up of 16 pieces: 

1. Bringing out, bringing in (Processional)

2. O we feel made of bone

3. And yet we seek to speak

4. Crying, crying

5. There there

6. No consolation – ‘There is no consolation there’

7. Low, low, low the heart – ‘Row, row, row your boat’

8. Passing by – ‘I see you in the corner of my eye’

9. O what would we now say

10. I remember

11. No bird-light soul

12. Open Eye

13. What we leave

14. So far

15. The things we love

16. At the edge of the field