James MacMillan writes some of the most convincing and convinced religious music today. This second disc in a continuing series of his work brings together three sacred pieces with an early orchestral work from 1989: Tryst is full of dancing wind melodies and angry string chords, well paced, anticipating the huge success of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie that followed. The Advent antiphon O echoes both Copland in its lonely solo trumpet and Messiaen in its birdsong chants, while a more traditional choral texture emerges in the Magnificat (1999) and Nunc Dimittis (2000); the choral sound would benefit from more focus.