James MacMillan

Composer's Notes In writing this work I wanted to compose something which was both timeless and contemporary, both sacred and secular. The title (Sacred Songs) is therefore slightly misleading as the...

Ambientazione natalizia per voci alte (tre parti) di un testo tradizionale inglese del XV secolo con un ritornello latino: "Gabriel of high degree ..." / "Ut nova: Ave fit ex Eva". L'edizione include...

Nella sua versione originale per voci miste, The Gallant Weaver di MacMillan è diventato uno dei suoi brani preferiti; questo arrangiamento estende l'ambientazione alle voci superiori. Paul Spicer com...

This liturgical setting dates from 1977, but has recently been released by the composer. Latin text: Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, At the conclusion. Taut scoring (with some divisi) contains both...

A touching setting of an anonymous love poem in broad Scots, this part-song was composed for the wedding of some friends of the composer. A welcome addition to the canon of MacMillan's secular choral...

Birthday tribute piece first performed in 2006 at a Glasgow restaurant by a quartet of students from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. The text is the well-known eulogy To laugh often and...

A powerful setting for 8-part choir of three of the Good Friday responses at matins: 'Tenebrae factae sunt', 'Tradiderunt me' and 'Iesum tradidit impius'. Commissioned by Cappella Nova (director: Alan...

The Strathclyde Motets are communion motets setting propers of the mass for various Sundays and feasts. Latin text from the Graduale Romanum. Suitable for intermediate standard choirs.Pascha nostrum i...

The Strathclyde Motets are communion motets setting propers of the mass for various Sundays and feasts. Suitable for intermediate standard choirs. The Canticle of Zachariah takes Luke chapter I as its...

From a 15th-century Canterbury pontifical.

Text from Psalm 51:3-21.

Five-movement work for mixed chorus a cappella with mutiple divisi and semi-chorus.A setting of a poem by Michael Symmons Roberts (English) with Latin text from the mass and an English traditional rhy...

Communion antiphon for Ash Wednesday, from the Strathclyde Motets, set II. Latin text from Psalm 1: 'Qui meditabitur in lege Domini die ac nocte dabit fructum suum in tempore suo'. Suitable for interm...

A setting of the final paragraph from Alasdair MacIntyre's book After Virtue, A study in moral theory.

Communion motet for Trinity Sunday.

L'opera, composta nel 1980 e rivista nel 2010, è un'ambientazione del Pange lingua di Tommaso d'Aquino in una traduzione in inglese moderno. Il corale è appropriatamente innografico e comprende un pas...

Text from 1 John 3:1, and from the baptismal rite.

Setting of Revelation 21: 1-6a commisioned by Soli Deo Gloria with support from Crossway Bibles and from the University of Chicago, and premiered in June 2011 by the University of Chicago's Rockefelle...

Latin setting commissioned by St Patrick's Church, Soho, London, to commemorate its major refurbishment and reopening on the Feast of the Visitation in May 2011. Elaborate, predominantly homophonic, c...

Ambientazione del Salmo 127 (testo inglese) commissionata dalla Marchesa e dalla Marchesa di Salisbury per celebrare il 400° anniversario di Hatfield House nel 2011. È stato eseguito in prima assoluta...

Questa composizione del tradizionale inno vespertino (Hail, O Star of the Ocean) è stata commissionata da Christopher Gray e dal coro della Cattedrale di Truro. Il movimento è omofonico e stabilisce m...

Un'accorata rappresentazione delle parole di Nostra Signora di Guadalupe a San Juan Diego (in inglese). Secondo la leggenda, la "Madonna di Guadalupe" apparve a Juan Diego nel 1531 con l'ordine di cos...