Cappella Nova
Thu May 10, 7.30pm, Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, £10/£12.50, 0131 668 2019; Fri 11, 7.30pm, St Andrew's Episcopal Cathedral, Aberdeen, £10/£12.50, 01224 641122; Sat 12, 7.30pm, St Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, Dundee, £10/£12.50, 01382 434940; Sun 13, 7.30pm, St Andrew's in the Square, Glasgow, £10/£12.50, 0141 353 8000
Having recently premiered a new Easter work written for the group by Scotland's pre-eminent composer James MacMillan, vocal ensemble Cappella Nova rounds off its 25th anniversary season by going back four centuries for a best of British programme, renaissance style.
Among the selection of polyphony and plainsong from the British Isles, two major works standout; the great Five-Voice Mass by William Byrd, one of a number of audaciously Catholic works the composer published during the reign of Elizabeth I, and the motet Gaude flore virginali by the sixteenth-century Scottish composer Robert Carver, arguably the greatest composer the nation has produced up to the twentieth century.
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