Journeys – real and imagined, geographical and spiritual, from place to place, from life to death – run through this beautifully conceived program from Nigel Short, Aurora Orchestra and Tenebrae. The Gloucestershire countryside provides a backdrop for music imbued with a particular spirit of time and place.

In the centenary year of the Armistice there have been many direct musical tributes, but there’s something almost more moving about this quiet, implied memorial to war and those touched by it. At the heart of the program is Ivor Gurney – the English poet-composer who returned from France in body, but with his mind forever disturbed.

The composer’s songs (heard in orchestrations by Howells and Finzi)...