A Garland for Linda

A Garland for Linda is a tribute album for Linda McCartney, released in 2000 by the cancer-fighting organization the Garland Appeal. The album features choral music by ten contemporary composers including her husband Paul McCartney, John Rutter and John Tavener; and is performed by the Joyful Company of Singers under the conductor Peter Broadbent.

Track listing

 * 1) "Silence and Music" (Ralph Vaughan Williams) – 4:50
 * 2) *From "A Garland for the Queen" of 1953, the year of her coronation.
 * 3) "Prayer for the Healing of the Sick" (John Tavener) – 8:53
 * 4) *From a text by Mother Thekla found in the "Russian Orthodox Service of Holy Unction".
 * 5) "Water Lilies" (Judith Bingham) – 7:35
 * 6) *Written in March 1999, drawing on the composer's experience of swimming.
 * 7) "Musica Dei Donum" (John Rutter) – 5:36
 * 8) *From a solo chorus text of 1594.
 * 9) "The Doorway of the Dawn" (David Matthews) – 4:53
 * 10) *Write about Linda's qualities and feelings.
 * 11) "Nova" (Paul McCartney) – 6:28
 * 12) *Written from November 1998 to May 1999.
 * 13) "I Dream'd" (Roxanna Panufnik) – 3:30
 * 14) *Arrangement for a cappella chorus of a work.
 * 15) "Farewell" (Michael Berkeley) – 3:30
 * 16) *From fragments of literary ideas by John Milton, William Shakespeare and Elizabeth Speller.
 * 17) "The Flight of the Swan" (Giles Swayne) – 6:16
 * 18) *Inspired by the death of James Manson, son of a close friend of the author, in 1996 from brain cancer.
 * 19) "A Good-Night" (Richard Rodney Bennett) – 2:51
 * 20) *From a poem by Francis Quarles.

Personnel
The Joyful Company of Singers


 * Claire Hills: soprano
 * Katherine Willis: soprano
 * Henrietta Hillman: alto
 * Fiona Robinson: alto
 * Lorna Youngs: alto
 * Paul Zimmerman: tenor
 * Alex Hayes: tenor
 * Michael King: bass
 * Greg Masters: bass
 * Chris E. Williams: bass
 * Peter Broadbent: conductor