Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis - The Edinburgh Service, World premiere recording
1 Magnificat
2 Nunc Dimittis (1 MB):
Three Organ Voluntaries
3 Psalm 124 (after David Peebles)
4 O God Abufe (after John Fethy)
5 All Sons of Adam (after an anon. sixteenth-century motet):
O magnum mysterium
6 Carol:
O magnum mysterium (treble solo)
7 Carol:
Haylle, comly and clene (1.1 MB)
8 Sonata I:
Puer Natus
9 Carol:
O magnum mysterium (treble and alto)
10 Carol:
Alleluia, pro Virgine Maria
11 Sonata II:
Lux fulgebit (0.7 MB)
12 Carol:
The fader of Heven
13 Carol:
O magnum mysterium (full choir)
14 Organ Fantasia on O magnum mysterium

In the 1960s few would have predicted that Sir Peter Maxwell Davies would eventually write a set of Evening Canticles; yet religious texts have always been of fundamental importance to the composer as this disc vividly demonstrates by bringing together sacred masterworks from both ends of his career. Owens has trained this choir to an exceptionally high level and the sound can only be described as luxurious. - Gramophone

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World Premiere Recording