MacMillan - The Strathclyde Motets: O Radiant Dawn
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Choral » Anthems & Motets
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Special offer. Who Are These Angels?
New Choral Music by James MacMillan
Cappella Nova, Alan Tavener
Approachable without being apologetic, emotional but with a sense of dignity, the best of these works can both delight and challenge...Everything is performed with elegance and the requisite... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Editor's Choice
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This is an ingenious and moving collection of pieces framed as the interplay between light and dark, and moving across the spectrum of such experiences...The harmonic languages of these pieces... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2025, Choral Choice
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From the gorgeously shaped performance of Morten Lauridsen’s modern classic O magnum mysterium which opens the programme, to the urgent, ardent account of James MacMillan’s O radiant dawn which... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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A Pembroke Christmas
Emma Johnson (clarinet), Wallis Power, The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, The Pembroke College Girls' Choir, Anna Lapwood
Highlights include a numinous take on MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn, Ailsa McTernan’s soaring solo in Patricia Van Ness’s ‘Archangelus’ and a performance of Kerensa Briggs’s A Tender Shoot, which... —
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Special offer. There is no Rose
Christmas in the 21st Century
Vocal Group Concert Clemens, Carsten Seyer-Hansen
This one is outstanding: the group produces exceptionally pure-toned singing, and the engineering is alluringly atmospheric. The singers avoid vibrato, and this produces performances of unusual... —
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Ferris encourages his singers to generate a rich, robust texture, abundant in vibrant colour and undoubted excitement. That’s not to say it’s a free-for-all shout. Flexibility is matched by... —
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Now May We Singen
Music for Advent and Christmas
Ben Bloor (organ)
Westminster School Choir, Timothy Garrard
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One-to-a-part performances of repertoire spanning nine centuries, no less. An inspired programme, superbly sung throughout. —
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Natus: Music for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany
Shaun Turnbull (organ)
The Choirs of Blackburn Cathedral, Samuel Hudson
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This CD focuses on the Marian tradition and James MacMillan’s ongoing relationship with sacred choral music, centred on his deeply held Roman Catholic faith. It makes for an engaging programme,... —
