(2007)
 
for mixed choir, semi-chorus & organ
(or for double-choir and organ)
 
Poetry by William Blake
Additional text: author unknown
 
Duration: 6 minutes
 
Commissioned by James O’Donnell and the choir of Westminster Abbey
 
“Of the two triumphs of the evening, one was a ravishing new setting by James Lavino, ‘Holy Thursday,’ marrying Blake with the Maundy Thursday plainsong Ubi Caritas, and drawing together poems contrasting of parish beneficence and society’s indifference to childhood squalor.” – Roderic Dunnett, writing in the Church Times