Edmund Rubbra holds a distinguished place in the history of English music. His works combine lyrical beauty and intellectual vigour, with harmonic inventiveness deployed to draw out strong thematic ideas. Rubbra’s deeply felt spirituality and religious beliefs proved an inexhaustible wellspring in his composition, inspiring a corpus of sacred music which is at once bold and revelatory. Both the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis and the Missa Cantuariensis are major contributions to the Anglican repertoire, whilst the Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici and the Nine Tenebrae Motets are Latin settings which place Rubbra in the central tradition of twentieth-century European religious writing.