Annunciations: Sacred Music for the 21st Century

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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,... — Choir & Organ, July 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 9th Mar 2018
Catalogue No: SAND0006
Label: Sanctiandree
Length: 74 minutes

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MacMillan: Ave Maria

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St Salvator's Chapel Choir, Sean Heath
St. Salvator's Chapel Choir
Tom Wilkinson

MacMillan: Canticle of Zachariah

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St Salvator's Chapel Choir
St. Salvator's Chapel Choir
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Tavener: Annunciation

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St. Salvator's Chapel Choir
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Leighton: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis (Second Service), Op. 62

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St Salvator's Chapel Choir, Sean Heath
St. Salvator's Chapel Choir
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I. Magnificat

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II. Nunc Dimittis

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MacMillan: A New Song

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St Salvator's Chapel Choir, Sean Heath
St. Salvator's Chapel Choir
Tom Wilkinson

McDonnell, A: Hinneni

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St Salvator's Chapel Choir
St. Salvator's Chapel Choir
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De Grande: Whilst Falling Asleep, Savta Told Me Of Jacob

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St Salvator's Chapel Choir, Sean Heath
St. Salvator's Chapel Choir
Tom Wilkinson

Briggs, Kerensa: Exodus III

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St Salvator's Chapel Choir, Sean Heath
St. Salvator's Chapel Choir
Tom Wilkinson

Doherty: God Calls Samuel

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St Salvator's Chapel Choir, Sean Heath
St. Salvator's Chapel Choir
Tom Wilkinson

Robertson: The Silent Word Sounds

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St. Salvator's Chapel Choir
Tom Wilkinson

Beatch: The Annunciation Of Solomon

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St Salvator's Chapel Choir, Sean Heath
St. Salvator's Chapel Choir
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MacMillan: And Lo, The Angel Of The Lord Came Upon Them

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St Salvator's Chapel Choir
St. Salvator's Chapel Choir
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Britten: A Hymn to the Virgin

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St. Salvator's Chapel Choir
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Bingham, J: Annunciation

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Sean Heath, St Salvator's Chapel Choir
St. Salvator's Chapel Choir
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MacMillan: The Strathclyde Motets: O Radiant Dawn

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St Salvator's Chapel Choir
St. Salvator's Chapel Choir
Tom Wilkinson

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'Annunciations' celebrates Sir James MacMillan's ongoing contributions to sacred music, performed by St Salvator's Chapel Choir. Alongside five of his own pieces, the album includes works by two decisive influences on MacMillan, Benjamin Britten and Kenneth Leighton; two significant contemporaries, John Tavener and Judith Bingham; and six next generation composers mentored by Sir James on the TheoArtistry Composers' Scheme, a collaboration between ITIA (the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts), the Music Centre, and St Salvator's Chapel Choir, in the University of St Andrews.

Through music of fascinating and sublime beauty, this recording takes the listener on a musical journey through salvation history, exploring moments in the Old and New Testaments when God speaks to humankind. At the heart of the recording are six new settings of 'annunciations' in the Hebrew Bible. These are framed by moments of divine communication in the New Testament as well as settings of the annunciation: the angel Gabriel announcing to the virgin Mary that she will give birth to the Messiah.

Sir James MacMillan is one of today's most successful composers and conductors. His musical language is flooded with influences from his Scottish heritage, Catholic faith, social conscience and close connection with Celtic folk music, blended with influences from Far Eastern, Scandinavian and Eastern European music.

St Salvator's Chapel Choir is committed to the performance of new music, and regularly commissions and performs works for both liturgical and secular contexts. The Sanctiandree label has already garnered acclaim for releases including Salvator Mundi, charting 100 years of English church music after Purcell, Ca' the Yowes, featuring British folk song arrangements, and Bach and the Stile Antico.

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July 2018

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, which is superbly delivered by director Tom Wilkinson and his youthful St Andrews’ forces. The 30 voices of St Salvator’s Chapel Choir make a bright, well focused sound that is nicely blended; only occasionally are there signs that they are stretched by the programme’s demands. TheoArtistry are to be congratulated for the enterprise: how often do emerging composers have the opportunity to have their new pieces performed and recorded? All six new works were written in 2017; each is of interest, but I particularly enjoyed Kerensa Briggs’s Exodus III and Sean Doherty’s God Calls Samuel.

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