The album follows one idea across nearly three and a half centuries: plainchant, and how the same source material survives even as the music built around it changes completely. The programme runs from 1666 to 2008, every work carrying chant somewhere inside.

 

Two twentieth-century works sit at the centre, linked by a single teaching line. Fauré wrote his Cello Sonata No.1 in D minor, Op.109 late in life, as he was losing his hearing. Carter's Cello Sonata is where he developed the rhythmic technique he became known for. Between them comes Nadia Boulanger's Trois pièces. Fauré taught Boulanger; Boulanger taught Carter.

 

Framing these are two reconstructions. The album opens, breaks and closes with three antiphons by Neapolitan cello teacher Rocco Greco, laid over Bonifazio Graziani's 1666 vocal manuscript in a new version by Michael Essl and Jacobs-Perkins, with singers Daisy Livesey, Gabriella Noble and Jack Harberd. It ends in the present with Andrew Norman's Sabina for solo cello.

 

The album is named after a family home on Lake Ontario, itself named after Yeats's "The Lake Isle of Innisfree". For Jacobs-Perkins it is her "orientation to home", a still point in a programme that ranges across three centuries.