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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir's second CD includes three first recordings of works by leading British composer - James MacMillan - who attended the recording session.

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Invocation
Choral music by Kenneth Leighton and James MacMillan

Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Directed by Paul Spicer, Organ David Saint

“...the singing from this student ensemble is inspiring for its lovely tone and all-pervading sense of innigkeit….One of the nicest English anthologies to have crossed the choral desk for some time”
American Record Guide
reviewing Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir's CD 'To Music' May/June 2008

1. God’s grandeur – Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988) (4:36)
2. Laudi alla Vergine Maria – James MacMillan (b.1959) (7:32)*
3. Missa Sancti Thomae  – Leighton  (20:02)*
   Kyrie (2:10)
   Credo (5:08)
   Sanctus (1:36)
   Benedictus (1:58)
   Agnus Dei (3:20)
   Gloria (5:20)
4. The Song of the Lamb – MacMillan (7:21)*
5. Invocation – MacMillan (5:38)*
6. Quam dilecta!  – Leighton (7:51)*
7. Cantos Sagrados – MacMillan (22:23)
   I. Identity (8:38)
   II. Virgin of Guadalupe (7:48)
   III. Sun Stone (5:57)

* First recording

Total playing time: 74:56

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