The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, has done one of its old boys proud.

Jonathan Harvey, who died in 2012, recalled how liberating he found writing for a cathedral-type choir. Perhaps that is why the music on this disc is so varied and inspiring.

The anthem I Love the Lord is at once rapturously simple and tortuously difficult. The Missa Brevis ranges from the numinous to the awestruck. A couple of organ works, one with electronic tape, maintain the aura of a questing, individual spirit.

This is a tough assignment for a college choir with boys’ voices, but ambition has paid off handsomely.