Composer: James MacMillan
Performer: Alan Tavener, Rebecca Tavener, Graham Neal, Louise Eekelaar, Michaela Haslam, Libby Crabtree, Steven McIntyre, Graham Neal, Cappella Nova
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Linn
Catalogue: CKD633
Release: 2021
Size: 1.47 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
The Culham Motets
01. I. Lift High the Ancient Portals
02. II. I Saw Water Flowing
03. III. See the Place Where God Lives
04. IV. From the Hand of the Angel
05. V. Your Light Will Come, Jerusalem
06. Beatus Andreas
07. Wedding Song
08. Behold, You Are Beautiful, My Love
09. Until the Day Breathes
10. Kenga e Krushqve
11. Lux aeterna
12. A Special Appeal
13. St Anne’s Mass: I. Kyrie
14. St Anne’s Mass: II. Gloria
15. St Anne’s Mass: III. Sanctus
16. The Lord’s Prayer
17. St Anne’s Mass: IV. Agnus Dei
18. Sing Joyfully to the Lord
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.