Salve splendor (Inchcolm antiphoner) / transcribed and edited by Isobel Woods-Preece -- Os mutorum / James MacMillan -- Confessor Dei (Inchcolm antiphoner) / transcribed and edited by Isobel Woods-Preece -- O quam mirabilis / Ivan Moody -- Green grow the rushes (harp) (17th and 18th century Scottish sources) -- Lorica / Michael McGlynn -- Flower garland / Peter McGarr -- Five lauds antiphons (Office for St. Brigit) / transcribed and edited by Ann Buckley -- Inviolata, integra et casta es, Maria (W1, St. Andrews Music Book) / transcribed and edited by Edward H. Roesner -- Through the wood, laddie (harp) (17th and 18th century Scottish sources) -- Shining light / Joanne Metcalf -- Beatus Gallus (Plainchant) / transcribed and edited by Sara Casey -- There is nothing brighter than the sun / Rebecca Rowe -- O solis occasu (Plainchant) / Ekkehartus of Saint Gall ; transcribed and edited by Sara Casey -- Ubi flumen praesulis / Gabriel Jackson -- Sacrosanctum Kentegernus (Sprouston breviary) / transcribed and edited by Greta-Mary Hair -- The stars in their courses / James McCarthy -- Two hadiths / John Tavener.
Note
"World-premiere recordings of medieval and contemporary spiritual songs" -- Cover.
The medieval plainchant comes from Scottish, Irish and European manuscripts. Sacrosanctum Kentegernus is from the Sprouston breviary, Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MSS 18.2.13B, dated c.1300. The transcription of Beatus Gallus is from the 15th century manuscript, Prague, Narodni kniknvna VI F 16. The transcription of A solis occasu is from Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek MS M. Ch. F. 283, dated 1624. Inviolata, integra et casta es, Maria is from the Wolfennbuttel Herzog-August-Bibliotek, 628 Helmstadtiensis (WI), or St. Andrews Music Book.
Event (note)
Recorded at Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, UK 24th-26th February and 9th November 2009.
Canty: Micaela Haslam, Anne Lewis, Joanne Wicks, Rebecca Tavener, director ; William Taylor, harp (romanesque harp by Rainer Thurau, Wiesbaden, 21 gut strings ; medieval wire-strung clarsach by Ardival Harps, Strathpeffer, 26 brass & silver strings ; late-medieval bray harp by Ardival Harps, 26 gut strings).
Event
Recorded at Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, UK 24th-26th February and 9th November 2009.