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Jacob was wrestling in the arms of a stranger: London Concord Singers to premiere Robert Hugill's 'Aubade & Love Song'

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July 7, 2026 · 9:28 AM

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Planet Hugill: Terrific and intensely atmospheric: the String Quartet No. 1 and Piano Quintet by Olli Mustonen from the Engegård Quartet and the composer on LAWO Classics

Back in the late 1990s one of the origins for ideas for new musical works was the moment during mass when I tuned the homily out and my mind went into a sort of free association. I sang in the Latin Mass choir at St Mary's Cadogan Street; both the choice of readings and the Gregorian chant that we sang fed into my musical ideas. Jacob wrestling with the angel (from Genesis) was one such moment. A striking yet somewhat unsatisfactory image, the story has a tantalising, gnomic quality as if someth