Kim Andre Arnesen is one of Norway s most frequently performed contemporary composers. International recognition of his music includes a performance of the beautifully evocative Cradle Hymn at the White House for Barack Obama in 2016. Arnesen s association with Denver s Kantorei resulted in their commissioning the warmly expressive The gift I ll leave you and the eloquent Making or Breaking. Even when He Is Silent sets a text written by a prisoner on a concentration camp wall, and Arnesen s own summing-up of Flight Song is that music making is the song of new life, fragile as the fall of a feather.