Situated in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle, St Cuthbert's was the first parish church in Scotland to hold candlelit services on Christmas Eve. The two-thousand-strong congregation was regularly joined by people standing in the aisles! Today, the organ continues to combine it's role of supporting the singing with solo performance of varied repertoire. Director of Music Thomas Laing-Reilly has at his hands an instrument seemingly able to speak any language. It's vast color palette is demonstrated with striking clarity on this disc, in a range of repertory which crosses national borders with disarming ease.