The Mourning Tree (from 'Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture')

The Mourning Tree (from 'Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture'), music by Jessica Curry. Arranged for unaccompanied SATB voices, in digital sheet music format.

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is an award-winning video game, for which Jessica Curry wrote the much-lauded score. The composer writes that “the game is inspired by the ‘cosy catastrophe’ fiction of writers like John Wyndham, and is a story about the end of the world as experienced by a small village in rural Shropshire in the 1980s. But really it’s a game about love and forgiveness, and the small acts that define our lives.”

The Mourning Tree gives a voice to Wendy, until then just an opinionated pensioner whose history and carefully hidden hurt invites us to see in a different, more sympathetic light.

The Mourning Tree is recorded by London Voices, conducted by Ben Parry