Browse: Cappella Nova (choir)

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... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Cappella Nova make James MacMillan's Missa Dunelmi sound much easier to sing than it is, and that's a compliment...Perhaps it helps having MacMillan himself directing: it's interesting his default... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

the Scottish-based choir once more brings a rare beauty and depth of sound to MacMillan’s radiant music. At the album’s heart are the five Culham Motets...Previously unrecorded, the cycle makes... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

All this can be very challenging to sing, and Cappella Nova not only manage to get the notes, but surmount them with lyrical grace and very little hint of strain. Conductor Alan Tavener (a distant... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…