From the Celestial Hills – Review by Cathedral Music Magazine
“This is an impressive recording in many ways”
1st May 2024
From the Celestial Hills – Review by Cathedral Music Magazine
“This is an impressive recording in many ways”
1st May 2024
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This programme features nearly 700 years of Scottish sacred music, ranging from ‘Aurora rutilat’, a fourteenth-century plainchant hymn for the feast of St Columba through to numerous twentieth- and twenty-first-century works, including arrangements by Katy Lavinia Cooper and Kevin Bowyer, the current Director of Chapel Music and Organist respectively, at the University of Glasgow.
The music on this disc evidently seems close to the hearts of the thirty-seven members of the university’s Chapel Choir, who give impassioned and spirited performances, acting as convincing advocates for several works and composers who deserve to be better known: I was particularly taken with Janet Beat’s short Bow thing ear, O Lord and Drew Hammond’s Hymn to St Perpetua, but the whole disc is worthy showcase both of the choir’s talents and the riches of Scottish choral music that are (mostly) yet to be discovered.
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This programme features nearly 700 years of Scottish sacred music, ranging from ‘Aurora rutilat’, a fourteenth-century plainchant hymn for the feast of St Columba through to numerous twentieth- and twenty-first-century works, including arrangements by Katy Lavinia Cooper and Kevin Bowyer, the current Director of Chapel Music and Organist respectively, at the University of Glasgow.
The music on this disc evidently seems close to the hearts of the thirty-seven members of the university’s Chapel Choir, who give impassioned and spirited performances, acting as convincing advocates for several works and composers who deserve to be better known: I was particularly taken with Janet Beat’s short Bow thing ear, O Lord and Drew Hammond’s Hymn to St Perpetua, but the whole disc is worthy showcase both of the choir’s talents and the riches of Scottish choral music that are (mostly) yet to be discovered.
