New Music Written for the Choir of St Mary's Cathedral
Over the years the Choir has worked closely with a number of leading composers, commissioning, performing and recording works by Kenneth Leighton, Arvo Pärt, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Sir James MacMillan, Howard Skempton and Gabriel Jackson, amongst others. Collaborations with orchestras have included performances with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the 60th birthday concert of American composer John Zorn and at the Glasgow Tectonics Festival. In 2014-15 the choristers performed again with the BBC SSO, including a semi-staged version of Berg’s Wozzeck under conductor Donald Runnicles.
| Preces & Responses |
Kenneth Leighton (1964) |
| Awake my glory |
Kenneth Leighton (1979) |
| What love of this is thine |
Kenneth Leighton (1985) |
| Creator of the stars of night |
Gabriel Jackson (2000) |
| Nunc Dimittis |
Arvo Part (2001) |
| Tremunt videntes angeli |
James MacMillan (2001) |
| Edinburgh Mass |
Gabriel Jackson (2001) |
| Ane Sang of the Birth of Christ |
Gabriel Jackson (2002) |
| St Matthew Passion |
Richard Allain (2002) |
| Preces and Responses |
Gabriel Jackson (2003 |
| Ave Verum Corpus |
David Briggs (2004) |
| Hymn to St Margaret of Scotland |
Gabriel Jackson (2011) |
| The Presence |
Cecilia McDowell (2017) |
List of pieces written for St Mary’s Music School
Recording & Broadcasting
The Choir is well known for working closely with numerous leading contemporary composers, commissioning, performing and recording new choral works, and is also acclaimed for its many appearances on BBC Radio 3, Radio 4 and Radio Scotland, including live broadcasts of Choral Evensong.
In 2016 the Choir released a disc of Stravinsky’s choral music with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra to critical acclaim. Other recent recordings which have covered music from the 16th to the 21st centuries have all earned Editor’s Choice in one or more specialist music magazines and won widespread praise in the press.
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