Recordings

Tenebrae – New Choral Music by James MacMillan (Linn CKD301)
   World premiere recordings of The Strathclyde Motets, Missa Brevis  and   Tenebrae Responsories by Scotland’s leading composer.
    Editor’s Choice – The Gramophone, January 2008

Read the reviews on Linn Records' website

 

 
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Columba, Most Holy of Saints (ASV CDGAU 129)

Scottish Medieval plainchant, as preserved in the Inchcolm Antiphoner.

“The recording has real atmosphere and captures the full richness     of the singing”   Classic CD


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The Miracles of St Kentigern (ASV CDGAU 169)

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


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Nou lat us sing - A Scottish Christmas (RTCD001)

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


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Laudes Deo  : Motets by Robert Johnson (ASV CDGAU 154)

Johnson, the Scottish composer who fled to England accused of heresy, represents the generation after Carver.

“A dazzling display of vocal virtuosity”   BBC Music Magazine


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Sacred Music for Mary Queen of Scots  (ASV CDGAU 136)

The Mass Cantate Domino  (attrib. Carver), described by Early Music   News as “a sumptuous work of great beauty and sonority”

Plus psalm-settings (sung in early Scots) by Angus and Peebles.


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Robert Carver Vol I (ASV CDGAU 124)

Volume I of Cappella Nova's trail-blazing series.  Features the 10-part   Mass and motet in 19-parts, O bone Jesu .

“a superb achievement”   CD Review – ‘CD of the Month’ 


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Robert Carver Vol II (ASV CDGAU 126). 

The celebrated Mass L'Homme armé, etc.  

“This is really beautiful music!”   American Record Guide


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Robert Carver Vol III (ASV CDGAU 127)

More marvellous music by Scotland's Renaissance genius, including the 5-part Mass Fera pessima

“sets the seal on the rediscovery of a towering genius of       Renaissance   polyphony”   Hi Fi News


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The Thistle and the Rose: Music from the Carver Choirbook (CDGAU 342) 

Carver’s virtuoso Mass for Three Voices and other gems.


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Scottish Twentieth Century Choral Music (CKD014)

A unique collection of works commissioned by Cappella Nova in the 1980s   White on White  (Lyell Cresswell);12-part Motet In Memoriam Robert   Carver  (Ronald Stevenson); Psalm of the Land  (William Sweeney)