This album of Scottish sacred rarities is sung with conviction and skill by the chapel choir of Glasgow University. There are some familiar composers included in this recording: James MacMillan, Sheena Phillips, Rory Boyle, Martin Dalby and Ronald Stevenson to name but a few. Elisha James King’s Abbeville gets this disc off to a spirited start. The fourth of Ronald Stevenson’s Peace Motets (‘The Seventh Beatitude: Blessed are the peacemakers’) provides a more meditative moment. Kevin Bowyer and Katy Cooper’s arrangement of Ex Te Lux Oritur, O Dulcis Scotia – the wedding hymn of Margaret of Scotland to Eric of Norway (1281) – sees the choir singing a plainsong-type melody over an organ drone, before Kevin Bowyer masterfully creates a substantial organ interlude leading to a return of the hymn. Other highlights include MacMillan’s For a Thousand Years and John Angus’s The Sang of the Thrie Childrein. This is a wonderful recording and a great resource for anyone interested in Scottish sacred music. It is just a shame that the programme notes are lacking in substance and that texts are not provided (although sources are given).