James MacMillan: spartiti difficile

Scored for chorus, children's choir, organ and chamber orchestra, St Luke Passion adopts a pared-back focus on choral voices over its 75-minute span. Seeking a more spiritual, inward approach to match...

Setting of four poems by Michael Symmons Roberts for male voices a cappella, commissioned by the King's Singers and first performed by them in April 2014.MacMillan has been repeatedly drawn to Symmons...

Scored for chorus, children's choir, organ and chamber orchestra, St Luke Passion adopts a pared-back focus on choral voices over its 75-minute span. Seeking a more spiritual, inward approach to match...

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...

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...

Dieses einsätzige Werk von 13 Minuten Länge entstand 2013 als Auftragskomposition des Gould Piano Trio, dem Bath International Music Festival, Glasgow Music und dem East Neuk Festival. Als bedeutender...

MacMillans Violakonzert wurde vom London Philharmonic Orchestra, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra und Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in Auftrag gegeben und 2013 mit Lawrence Powe...

MacMillan's first percussion concerto Veni, Veni, Emmanuel was premiered to immediate acclaim by Evelyn Glennie and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste, at the BBC Proms i...

Composed at the request of Nicola Benedetti, the work's title plays on the common link of both MacMillan and Benedetti's Ayrshire backgrounds. In the first of the two short movements the folksong 'Ca'...

Subtitled Before the Tryst, this sonata is in one sense a 'prequel' to the similarly scored miniature, After the Tryst (1988). The composer explains that these and other works with 'Tryst' in the titl...

Composed on commission in 2004 by the Netherlands Chamber Choir and the Chapter of the Winchester Cathedral, this is a setting of text from Canto XXXIII of Dante's Il Paradiso. It was first performed...

Diese Vertonung einiger Passage aus der Offenbarung des Johannes besitzt einen besonderen Bezug zu den Engeln, die mit sieben Trompetenstößen erscheinen und verschiedene apokalyptische Szenarien ankün...

Etwas zurückhaltend è stato scritto nel 1982, quando il compositore era uno studente dell'Università di Durham. Il brano è stato dimenticato fino al 2009, quando MacMillan si è reso conto che molte de...

Composto nel 2007, questo lavoro di 25 minuti è stato commissionato dal Southbank Centre per i suoi artisti associati, il Quartetto Takács. Un'importante aggiunta al repertorio contemporaneo dei quart...

Composto nel 1988 e rivisto nel 1991, questo lavoro di 28 minuti è stato commissionato dal McEwen Bequest dell'Università di Glasgow. Il compositore ha dichiarato nel 1991: "Il mio primo quartetto d'a...

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...

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...

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...

This publication presents under one cover various short works for sundry orchestral scorings.Larghetto for Orchestra is MacMillan's orchestration (2017) of his celebrated Miserere for a cappella mixed...