Chant for Advent
Pluscarden Abbey The Season of Advent: Gregorian Chant from the Monks of Pluscarden Abbey £12 from Pluscarden Abbey shop (pluscardenabbey.org/shop/cd) Review by Sr Margaret Truran OSB The 2023 CD released by the monks of Pluscarden Abbey is a musical and liturgical...
Sancte Paule Apostole
CD Review: Sancte Paule Apostole Music from the Choir of Old Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Edinburgh 2CD £15 from osp.org.uk Review by Dan Divers This 2 CD set, entitled Sancte Paule Apostole, after the lively motet by Willaert which is its first track, provides an...
Sounding awesome!
How to Make your Choir Sound Awesome: the Ultimate Vocal Warm-up Book
Warm-ups are the focus here. As the authors state, they are an…
Music & Liturgy July 2024
The latest edition (July 2024) of Music & Liturgy, the journal of the Society of St Gregory, has arrived. As well as the liturgy planner which runs until the feast of Christ the King, there are articles by Brian Ching CSC on the crucifix in the worship space,...
Macmillan on chant
To attract an audience of 300-plus on a cold and rainy midweek night for a lecture on the somewhat niche topic of the origins of western music in plainsong is an astonishing feat. But the draw this past week was Sir …