Carmina Celtica / World Premiere recordings of Medieval & Contemporary Spiritual Songs

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Album Summary

Performer

• William Taylor (Harp)

Ensemble

• Canty

Composers

• John Tavener (Composer) (1944 - )
• Anonymous, Inchcolm Antiphoner (13th Century)
• Anonymous, Scottish
• Ann Buckley
• Joanne Metcalf (1958 - )
• Anonymous, Sprouston Breviary
• James MacMillan (Composer/Conductor) (1959 - )
• Michael McGlynn (1964 - )
• Scottish Traditional
• Rebecca Rowe (1970 - )
• James McCarthy
• Ivan Moody (1964 - )
• Peter McGarr
• Anonymous
• Gabriel Jackson (Classical ) (1962 - )

Notes & Reviews:

Classic FM Magazine
The voices are pure, beautifully tuned and finely balanced even at the tightest, most radiant dissonances... Taylor's various harps have an honest, rustic appeal... Top-quality singing with the programme blurring the expected distinction between ancient and modern.

The Observer
All [works] pick up on the distinctive resonance of Scots spirituality and the immaculate tuning and balance of the four female singers of Canty. William Taylor weaves harp interludes with atmospheric skill, even enhancing the plainchant. Ethereally beautiful.

Gramophone Magazine
There's a genuine and honest attempt to integrate old and new elements here... What provides the recording with a very special dimension is the harp-playing of William Taylor

Financial Times
Take four female voices versed in medieval music, record them in Edinburgh's Greyfriars Kirk, and you have the recipe for an outstanding disc of ancient and contemporary spiritual songs, all recorded for the first time.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009-02-24_2009-02-26&2009-).

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Works Details

Anonymous, Inchcolm Antiphoner : Salve splendor

• Ensemble: Canty
• Notes: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009-02-24_2009-02-26&2009-)
• Running Time: 1 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval

MacMillan, James : Os mutorum, for chorus

• Ensemble: Canty
• Notes: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009-02-24_2009-02-26&2009-)
• Running Time: 4 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Anonymous, Inchcolm Antiphoner : Confessor Dei

• Ensemble: Canty
• Notes: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009-02-24_2009-02-26&2009-)
• Period Time: Medieval

Moody, Ivan : O quam mirabilis, for chorus

• Ensemble: Canty
• Notes: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009-02-24_2009-02-26&2009-)
• Running Time: 3 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Anonymous, Scottish : Green Grow the Rashes O! (Balcarres Lute Book)

• Performer: William Taylor (Harp)
• Notes: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009-02-24_2009-02-26&2009-)
• Running Time: 2 min. 33 sec.

McGlynn, Michael : Lorica, for chorus

• Ensemble: Canty
• Notes: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009-02-24_2009-02-26&2009-)
• Running Time: 5 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

McGarr, Peter : Flower Garland, for chorus

• Ensemble: Canty
• Notes: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009-02-24_2009-02-26&2009-)
• Running Time: 3 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Buckley, Ann : Five Lauds Antiphons, for chorus

• Ensemble: Canty
• Notes: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009-02-24_2009-02-26&2009-)
• Running Time: 3 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Choral

Traditional, Scottish : Through the wood Laudie (The Wemyss Lute Book)

• Performer: William Taylor (Harp)
• Ensemble: Canty
• Notes: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009-02-24_2009-02-26&2009-)
• Running Time: 2 min. 53 sec.

Anonymous : Inviolata integra et casta es Maria, for ensemble

• Notes: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009-02-24_2009-02-26&2009-)
• Running Time: 4 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Metcalf, Joanne : Shining Light, for chorus

• Ensemble: Canty
• Notes: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009-02-24_2009-02-26&2009-)
• Running Time: 5 min. 49 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Anonymous : Beatus Gallus

• Ensemble: Canty
• Notes: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009-02-24_2009-02-26&2009-)
• Running Time: 3 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval

Rowe, Rebecca : There Is Nothing Brighter Than the Sun, for chorus

• Ensemble: Canty
• Notes: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009-02-24_2009-02-26&2009-)
• Running Time: 2 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Anonymous : A solis occasu

• Ensemble: Canty
• Notes: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009-02-24_2009-02-26&2009-)
• Running Time: 2 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval

Jackson, Gabriel : Ubi flumen praesulis, for chorus

• Ensemble: Canty
• Notes: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009-02-24_2009-02-26&2009-)
• Running Time: 4 min. 44 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Breviary, Anonymous, S. : Sacrosanctam Kentegernus

• Ensemble: Canty
• Notes: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009-02-24_2009-02-26&2009-)
• Running Time: 1 min. 58 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval

McCarthy, James : The Stars in Their Courses, for chorus

• Ensemble: Canty
• Notes: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009-02-24_2009-02-26&2009-)
• Running Time: 3 min. 42 sec.
• Form: Choral

Tavener, John : Two Hadiths, for female chorus & renaissance bray harp

• Ensemble: Canty
• Notes: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland (2009-02-24_2009-02-26&2009-)
• Running Time: 9 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Choral
• Written: 2007