I hope these songs provide a look at faith in what we're given. Vaughan Williams, after essentially writing the Tuba Concerto on a bet, turns out perhaps his most beautiful melody, putting his faith in the folk songs close to his heart. Richard Buckner gives us faith in life itself, in its troubles and its weight, finding a certain joy in a faith that that weight will always be there. Finally Kelly Joe Phelps treats faith in its traditional austere offices, that of religion - but giving it, to my ears, a fresh life in his hands. Don't mean to sound to preposterous, but there it is.