Midnight Rain, settings of Edward Thomas for tenor, natural horn, string quartet and keyboard was premiered at the Oxford May Music Festival in 2023.

The second of two commissions from the London Chamber Orchestra and the Guild of Horn Players, Midnight Rain follows the successful first performance of Inscapes for tenor, natural horn and string orchestra in February 2022 at St John’s Smith Square, London in which the London Chamber Orchestra was conducted by Christopher Warren-Green with Toby Spence, tenor and Nicholas Korth, horn.

Inspired by Britten’s Serenade, Inscapes explores further the natural tuning of the horn. The title refers to Gerard Manley Hopkin’s concept of the uniqueness of each component of the natural world, and is both a celebration of it and an elegy to its defilement by humanity.