A FLOCK Ascending is a relatively new independent classical  label created by composer, pianist and writer Michael Stewart and its aim is to reflect new emerging talent and the best in contemporary classical music.

John Tavener, who Stewart studied composition with in the 1970s,  remains very much at the forefront of that thinking.

His Palintropos for piano and orchestra, composed in 1978, was  commercially unrecorded for over 41 years. Tavener conceived the work on the Greek island of Patmos and it came to him in one day at the spot where where St John is believed to have received the divine revelation.