Cecilia McDowall's Standing As I Do Before God for Soprano solo and SSATB unaccompanied.Setting a text spoken by Nurse Edith Cavell on the eve of her execution in 1915 and re-fashioned by the poet Sean Street McDowall has created a work of haunting beauty full of gently lamenting harmonies.The sombre subject matter makes the piece equally suitable for funerals and Remembrance Day celebrations. Standing As I Do Before God is featured on the CD A Multitude of Voices by the choir Sospiri on Convivium Records.
