James MacMillan

Questo canto di Natale è un estratto dell'Oratorio di Natale di James MacMillan (2020). Mette in musica una melodia tradizionale originaria delle Ebridi scozzesi ("Tàladh Chrìosda"). Il testo inglese...

James MacMillan is the pre-eminent Scottish composer of his generation. This attractive five-minute Advent/Christmas carol for choir and organ sets a poem by Michael Symmons Roberts, a frequent collab...

Dalla sua pubblicazione nel 1997, The Galloway Mass di MacMillan si è affermata come una delle messe congregazionali più popolari nelle chiese di varie confessioni in tutto il mondo. Con l'introduzion...

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Ambientazione di Lux aeterna, il mottetto di comunione della Messa da Requiem, composto in memoriam James MacMillan Snr, padre del compositore. Sopra un bordone sostenuto per tutti i tre minuti, la vo...

Composed in 2015, Stabat Mater was commissioned by the Genesis Foundation for Harry Christophers and The Sixteen. Scored for mixed chorus and string orchestra it is a long-awaited sequel to the early...

Tuireadh is Gaelic for a lament (or requiem) for the dead, and this work is dedicated to the victims of the Piper Alpha disaster and their families. On the evening of 6 July 1988 a fire broke out on t...

Questo duo di cinque minuti è stato commissionato ed eseguito per la prima volta da Scott Dickinson e Andrew Berridge, per oltre vent'anni primi violisti della BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Questo...

Virtuosic, single-movement work of 15 minutes' duration commissioned for the Nash Ensemble and the 2007 Cheltenham Music Festival. Horn players may perform from the horn & piano reduction of the Conce...

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...

The Death of Oscar (2012) is a miniature tone poem drawing upon the legend of the bardic poet Ossian and the death of his son Oscar. In the legends of Ossian, Oscar challenged the High King Cairbre to...

A major addition to the concertante trombone repertory, this single-movement work lasting 30 minutes was premiered in 2017 by Jörgen van Rijen and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Iván...

Scored for soprano saxophone and string orchestra, the composer states that this short concerto is based on archetypes of Scottish traditional music. The first movement, March, Strathspey and Reel, fo...

I berserker erano guerrieri speciali comuni ai Vichinghi e alle antiche tribù celtiche che si facevano prendere dalla frenesia con idromele, funghi e iperventilazione per ottenere prestazioni di feroc...

Nuova edizione corretta dell'opera fondamentale di MacMillan, che ha fatto scalpore ai BBC Proms del 1990. L'opera è ormai stabilmente inserita nel repertorio orchestrale contemporaneo di tutto il mon...

Composta nel 2021 e dedicata al solista Nicola Benedetti, quest'opera è stata scritta come tributo alla memoria del compositore polacco Krzysztof Penderecki, scomparso l'anno precedente e che ha eserc...

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Composed in 2007, this 25-minute work was commissioned by Southbank Centre for its Associate Artists, the Takács Quartet. A major addition to the contemporary string quartet repertory, the San Francis...

Composed in 1988 and revised in 1991, this 28-minute work was commissioned by the University of Glasgow's McEwen Bequest. The composer stated in 1991, \"My first string quartet, Visions of a November...

Etwas zurückhaltend was written in 1982 when the composer was a student at the University of Durham. The piece was forgotten until 2009, when MacMillan realised that much within its ideas seemed curre...

This publication gathers together three miniatures for string quartet, all composed 'in memoriam' a particular individual. Memento (4 minutes) was written in memory of the composer's friend, David Hun...

A seraph is a celestial being or angel, usually and traditionally associated with trumpets. MacMillan's Seraph is a concertino for trumpet and strings, in three short, contrasting movements, and a wel...

Gemischter Chor (SATB) und Streichorchester Widely admired as one of MacMillan's finest achievements, his Seven Last Words promises an absorbing and moving experience in concert, for performers and au...