'and the swallow' by American composer Caroline Shaw (b.1982) is a setting of Psalm 84, expressing a yearning to be close to God. The second verse speaks of a sparrow and a swallow finding a home, which put the composer in mind of the Syrian refugee crisis and the search for a home where a family can grow.

How beloved is your dwelling place
O Lord of hosts.
My soul yearns
my heart and my flesh cry.
The sparrow found a house, and the swallow her nest,
Where she may place her young.

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Sopranos: Rachel Haworth, Hannah King, Victoria Meteyard, Áine Smith, Katie Trethewey, Emma Walshe, Rosanna Wicks
Altos: Hannah Cooke, Martha McLorinan, Eleanor Minney, Sophie Overin, Anna Semple
Tenors: Jeremy Budd, Jack Granby, Nicholas Madden, Tom Robson
Basses: Ben Davies, Joseph Edwards, Jimmy Holliday, Thomas Lowen, Jonathan Pratt, George Vines, Simon Whiteley
Director: Nigel Short

Filmed live at St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London on 18 September 2023.