James MacMillan: spartiti medio

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...

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...

A significant addition to the composer's repertory of Latin motets, this is a setting of an antiphon on the Feast of the Seven Dolours of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was commissioned in 2012 by Sacred...

Una potente trasposizione per coro a otto voci di tre delle risposte del Venerdì Santo durante il mattutino: «Tenebrae factae sunt», «Tradiderunt me» e «Iesum tradidit impius». Opera commissionata dal...

A setting of verses from Psalm 112 (Latin text). The prize-winning work in the composers' competition held in conjunction with the 2nd Norwich Festival of Contemporary Church Music, 1983. Suitable for...

Ambientazione del Salmo 45 (46) in latino, commissionata dal Leeds Festival Chorus e da esso eseguita in prima assoluta alla Leeds Town Hall nel marzo 2014, diretta da Simon Wright. Il brano, della du...

Extended instrumental solo taken from MacMillan's 70-90-minute Since it was the day of Preparation … for voices & ensemble, commissioned by the Hebrides Ensemble, Edinburgh International Festival, Sol...

Extended instrumental solo taken from MacMillan's 70-90-minute Since it was the day of Preparation - for voices & ensemble, commissioned by the Hebrides Ensemble, Edinburgh International Festival, Sol...

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...

Extended instrumental solo taken from MacMillan's 70-90-minute 'Since it was the day of Preparation ...' for voices & ensemble, commissioned by the Hebrides Ensemble, Edinburgh International Festival,...

Extended instrumental solo taken from MacMillan's 70-90-minute Since it was the day of Preparation ... for voices & ensemble, commissioned by the Hebrides Ensemble, Edinburgh International Festival, S...

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...

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...

The composer states that'the piece begins with a slowly falling scale of seven notes, thrown from one player to another, repeated nine times and embellished with ornamental flurries which outline a gr...

Fourteen Little Pictures for piano trio is a set of 14 separate miniatures, stitched together and interwoven to form a single through-composed work, lasting about 25 minutes. The music presents the me...

Album comprising short pieces, each written in honour of a living composer. Three are scored for piano quintet, the other for piano quartet.For Michael (piano quintet) was composed in 2004 to mark Mic...

Extended instrumental solo taken from MacMillan's 70-90-minute 'Since it was the day of Preparation ...' for voices & ensemble, commissioned by the Hebrides Ensemble, Edinburgh International Festival,...

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...

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...

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...

Vertonung für gemischten Chor a cappella eines ewigen Dauerbrenners unter den religiösen Texten (Joh 14,15-17; King-James-Bibel). Das Werk wurde von The Elders (einem Zusammenschluss ehemaliger Staats...

The Strathclyde Motets are communion motets setting propers of the mass for various Sundays and feasts. The Latin text is taken from the Graduale Romanum. The pieces are suitable for intermediate stan...

The Strathclyde Motets are communion motets setting propers of the mass for various Sundays and feasts. The Latin text is taken from the Graduale Romanum. The pieces are suitable for intermediate stan...