It is hardly surprising that James MacMillan, undoubtedly the UK’s most high-profile Catholic composer since Elgar, should produce a body of interesting organ music. These eleven pieces, given polished and sensitive performances here by Stephen Farr on the Rieger organ of St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, span the composer’s career and reflect many of his styles and interests.

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Weddings provided the impetus for four works, starting with the short, gentle Wedding Introit written for his own nuptials in 1983, which makes reference to the Irish folksong, She Moved Through the Fair. Folk idiom suffuses Offertorium from 1986, where the composer’s trademark embellishments fit within tender melodic outpourings. The wedding of his son to an Albanian bride in 2018 allowed MacMillan to compose a joyous riff on a traditional wedding song from...