Cappella Nova & Alan Tavener – MacMillan: Consecration (2021) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

This album ranges widely over Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan’s substantial output of sacred music and gathers together a few pieces that haven’t made it into the studio, such as the lovely St Anne’s Mass. Many of the pieces have personal significance, including works written for the weddings of family members and a Requiem Mass for his father. The largest here, The Culham Motets—written for the consecration of a chapel—is ambitious music, full of colour, and MacMillan strikes the perfect note. The smaller works are beautifully done and Cappella Nova’s singing, captured gloriously by producer/engineer Philip Hobbs, is breathtaking.

Cappella Nova has a longstanding reputation of championing contemporary music, and its latest album “Consecration” is no exception. Comprising world premiere recordings in a programme specially curated by Sir James MacMillan, it includes a very personal selection of the composer’s recent choral works. The sequence of five Culham Motets, written for the consecration of the Chapel of Christ the Redeemer at Culham Court on 9 December 2015, show MacMillan at his transcendently numinous best in an emotional and technical tour de force, setting texts of visionary and mystic ceremonial power. “Consecration” also includes MacMillan’s well-beloved St Anne’s Mass along with a fascinating collection of works written for family occasions: the weddings of two of his children and his father’s Requiem Mass. This is the fourth instalment of Cappella Nova’s celebrated MacMillan series on Linn.

Tracklist:
1. Graham Neal, Louise Eekelaar, Michaela Haslam, Cappella Nova & Alan Tavener – The Culham Motets: I. Lift High the Ancient Portals (05:20)
2. Cappella Nova & Alan Tavener – The Culham Motets: II. I Saw Water Flowing (08:48)
3. Rebecca Tavener, Cappella Nova & Alan Tavener – The Culham Motets: III. See the Place Where God Lives (10:09)
4. Graham Neal, Cappella Nova & Alan Tavener – The Culham Motets: IV. From the Hand of the Angel (04:31)
5. Cappella Nova & Alan Tavener – The Culham Motets: V. Your Light Will Come, Jerusalem (04:15)
6. Cappella Nova & Alan Tavener – Beatus Andreas (05:35)
7. Cappella Nova & Alan Tavener – Wedding Song (04:16)
8. Libby Crabtree, Cappella Nova & Alan Tavener – Behold, You Are Beautiful, My Love (05:05)
9. Cappella Nova & Alan Tavener – Until the Day Breathes (03:05)
10. Steven McIntyre – Kenga e Krushqve (04:35)
11. Rebecca Tavener & Steven McIntyre – Lux aeterna (03:11)
12. Graham Neal, Cappella Nova & Alan Tavener – A Special Appeal (07:01)
13. Cappella Nova & Alan Tavener – St Anne’s Mass: I. Kyrie (00:52)
14. Cappella Nova & Alan Tavener – St Anne’s Mass: II. Gloria (02:30)
15. Cappella Nova & Alan Tavener – St Anne’s Mass: III. Sanctus (01:43)
16. Cappella Nova & Alan Tavener – The Lord’s Prayer (01:58)
17. Cappella Nova & Alan Tavener – St Anne’s Mass: IV. Agnus Dei (01:24)
18. Cappella Nova & Alan Tavener – Sing Joyfully to the Lord (06:20)

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