Choir of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, Matthew Owens
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In the 1960s few would have predicted that Peter Maxwell Davies would eventually write a set of Evening Canticles; yet religious texts have always been of fundamental importance to the composer, as this disc vividly demonstrates by bringing together sacred masterworks from both ends of his career. Tough, uncompromising and of surpassing beauty, Davies’ major contributions to the Anglican repertoire are given thrilling voice by these fearless champions of contemporary liturgical music.
Davies: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis - Magnificat
Davies: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis - Nunc Dimittis
Davies: Three Organ Voluntaries - Psalm 124 (After David Peebles)
Davies: Three Organ Voluntaries - O God Abufe (After John Fethy)
Davies: Three Organ Voluntaries - All Sons Of Adam (After An Anon. Sixteenth-Century Motet)
Davies: O Magnum Mysterium - Carol: O Magnum Mysterium
Davies: O Magnum Mysterium - Carol: Haylle, Comly & Clene
Davies: O Magnum Mysterium - Sonata #1: Puer Natus
Davies: O Magnum Mysterium - Carol: O Magnum Mysterium
Davies: O Magnum Mysterium - Carol: Alleluia, Pro Virgine Maria
Davies: O Magnum Mysterium - Sonata #2: Lux Fulgebit
Davies: O Magnum Mysterium - Carol: The Fader Of Heven
Davies: O Magnum Mysterium - Carol: O Magnum Mysterium
Davies: O Magnum Mysterium - Organ Fantasia On "O Magnum Mysterium"
“There’s no better introduction to the productive tensions that have fuelled Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s career as a composer…this new recording – performed with a high degree of competence by all concerned – is even more welcome than it would otherwise be. The Edinburgh choristers…make light of the music’s demands.”
“The Master of the Queen’s Music would not find many more sympathetic advocates of his compositions in all Her Majesty’s Realm.”
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