Written in 1999, The Armed Man is a remarkable work, which contrasts settings of the mass with a variety of world texts concerned with war – including Kipling's Hymn Before Action, the Moslem Call to Prayer, and the work's eponymous root: a fifteenth century french tune, L'Homme Armé.

The Angmering Chorale
Accompanist – Alison Manton
Conductor – George Jones

Tickets £18 (unreserved), children £5  Available now from the St Martin's box office - call 020 7766 1100 or buy online.

In association with Mind in Camden.