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The fourth volume in Cappella Nova’s ground-breaking series of recordings of sacred music by James MacMillan – with organist Steven McIntyre, many fairly recent works – from the beautiful Culham Motets and angrily dramatic A Special Appeal to numerous “family pieces” written for the MacMillan offspring weddings – take a place alongside the earlier, much-loved St Anne’s Mass, notable for its innate simplicity and re-use of the composer’s Tryst melody .

Another world premiere recording of rare Irish medieval material“A recording shot through with a sublime, still beauty … In a word: blissful.”
Journal of Music in Ireland

“Canty’s singing is so transparent and tonally rich that boredom never rears its ugly head; While this elegant and devotional music may not be the proper accompaniment to tossing back a pint on St. Patrick’s Day, it is terrific in just about every other sense and is easily recommendable.”
All Music Guide

Capturing the spirit of our Carols by Candlelight concerts, this unique collection features Gaelic carols, traditional Scottish tunes, 16th & 17th century Scottish motets and Christmas songs, and carols written specially for Cappella Nova by Herbert Sumsion and Sir John Tavener.

“You could not do better than find this in your stocking” – Church Music Quarterly

Clarsach (played by William Taylor) with voices and bells in the performance of chants from the Sprouston Breviary harks back to bardic story-telling traditions.

“Alan Tavener’s superb choir unearths early-Medieval chant in a sparse, simple style – a beautiful sound” The Scotsman