Cappella Nova – James MacMillan: Tenebrae (2007) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Cappella Nova - James MacMillan: Tenebrae (2007) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz] Download

Cappella Nova – James MacMillan: Tenebrae (2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:10:20 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Linn Records

The outstanding Scottish group gives a beautiful performance of three world premiere recordings of works by leading contemporary composer James MacMillan. Originally released in 2007 MacMillan: Tenebrae has been re-issued as part of Linn’s ECHO series which offers a second chance to enjoy the best of the label’s award-winning catalogue.
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Cappella Nova & Richard Taruskin – Josquin des Prez: Motets for the Blessed Virgin (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Cappella Nova & Richard Taruskin – Josquin des Prez: Motets for the Blessed Virgin (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:10 minutes | 519 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Musical Heritage Society

For the last eight years, Cappella Nova has been singing liturgical music of the Renaissance and the late Middle Ages for New York audiences. Sunday evening at St. Joseph’s church in Greenwich Village the 19-member group and its director, Richard Taruskin, gave their last concert for a while. Cappella Nova is taking a year off and is scheduled to reassemble in the fall of 1984.

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Cappella Nova and Alan Tavener – MacMillan: Consecration (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Cappella Nova and Alan Tavener – MacMillan: Consecration (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:47 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Linn Records

This album ranges widely over Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan’s substantial output of sacred music and gathers together a few pieces that haven’t made it into the studio, such as the lovely St Anne’s Mass. Many of the pieces have personal significance, including works written for the weddings of family members and a Requiem Mass for his father. The largest here, The Culham Motets—written for the consecration of a chapel—is ambitious music, full of colour, and MacMillan strikes the perfect note. The smaller works are beautifully done and Cappella Nova’s singing, captured gloriously by producer/engineer Philip Hobbs, is breathtaking.

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