Cappella Nova Tavener - Consecration - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Cappella Nova has a longstanding reputation of championing contemporary music, and it's latest album Consecration is no exception. Comprising world premiere recordings in a program 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.