The small-scale choral genre often elicits some of Scots composer James MacMillan's most inspired and appealing works. This collection by the ensemble Cappella Nova, led by Alan Tavener and joined by the women's quartet Canty, the Edinburgh Quartet, medieval harpist William Taylor, and organist John Kitchen features pieces (except for one early work) written between 2007 and 2010. The album includes the seven pieces that make up the composer's second set of Strathclyde motets as well as individual anthems, antiphons, and ...
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The small-scale choral genre often elicits some of Scots composer James MacMillan's most inspired and appealing works. This collection by the ensemble Cappella Nova, led by Alan Tavener and joined by the women's quartet Canty, the Edinburgh Quartet, medieval harpist William Taylor, and organist John Kitchen features pieces (except for one early work) written between 2007 and 2010. The album includes the seven pieces that make up the composer's second set of Strathclyde motets as well as individual anthems, antiphons, and motets, some a cappella and some accompanied. Among the most appealing are Qui meditabitur, whose eccentric but persuasive choral ornamentation makes it immediately memorable and distinctive; O Radiant Dawn, which has the chaste purity and clarity of English Renaissance polyphony; Os mutorum, which ends in the unfurling of a train of seductively sensual "Alleluia"s; and the luminous, serene Bring us, O Lord. MacMillan wrote his Mass of Blessed by John Henry Newman in English for...
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