James MacMillan: spartiti medio

Commissioned for the 1997 celebrations of the Year of Ninian, one of the founding fathers of Christianity in Scotland. St Ninian, the first bishop of Whithorn, was believed to have arrived in Galloway...

Originally a ballet score this 30' work is scored with strings and consists of three movements:cumnock fair, a 12-minute fantasy based on dance melodies by the 18th-century Cumnock composer John Frenc...

Sub-titled 'The Mysteries of Light', the composer states that this work attempts to revive the ancient practice of writing music based on the structure of the Rosary. The most famous example of this i...

Antiphon at second vespers on the feast of the Immaculate Conception.

Commissioned by John Scott Whiteley, Organist Emeritus of York Minster, who gave the first performance in July 2019 at Gloucester Cathedral as part of the Three Choirs Festival. Cast in a single, eigh...

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...

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...

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...

Questa composizione di un versetto del Salmo 43 ("Manda la tua luce e la tua verità; esse mi hanno guidato e mi hanno portato al tuo monte santo e al tuo luogo santo") con un Gloria Patri è stata comm...

Questo brano è stato commissionato dal Merton College di Oxford per il Merton Choirbook, una raccolta di musica corale composta per celebrare il 750° anniversario del college nel 2014. Si tratta di un...

Commissionata dal Selwyn College di Cambridge, One Equal Music è la seconda composizione di MacMillan di una sublime poesia di John Donne (1572-1631), "Portaci, o Signore Dio, al nostro ultimo risvegl...

Commissioned by the Cathedral Organists' Association [UK] in celebration of its centenary, and first performed at the Association's annual meeting in York Minster in May 2019. Text: Magnificat and Nun...

Questa meditazione devozionale su un poema sacramentale medievale è stata composta in occasione del 400° anniversario del martirio di San Giovanni Ogilvie, avvenuto a Glasgow il 10 marzo 1615, ed eseg...

Ambientazione di una preghiera di Madre Cornelia Connelly, fondatrice della Società del Santo Bambino Gesù nel 1846 e in seguito della Mayfield School. Nel 1863 fu ispirata a trasformare le rovine del...

The setting of Padre Pio's Prayer is after Communion. It was commissioned by the Genesis Foundation and first performed by The Sixteen, conducted by Harry Christophers, in June 2008 at Westminster Cat...

This mass was commissioned for the glory of God in the Millennium Year of Jubilee, and was first performed on the Feast of Corpus Christi by the Choir of Westminster Cathedral, London, with Andrew Rei...

Questa energica e danzante interpretazione del Salmo 33, versetti 1 - 4 (in inglese moderno), della durata di 5 minuti, è stata commissionata dalla Worth School and Abbey nel Regno Unito nel 2018. Un'...

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Composto per l'esecuzione del 2022 Cumnock Tryst, il festival musicale annuale su base comunitaria istituito da James MacMillan nella cittadina dell'Ayrshire in cui è cresciuto. MacMillan commenta che...

Atmospheric settings of poems in Scottish and in English by William Soutar (1898-1943), a central figure in the Scottish literary renaissance.

Setting of words from the Armenian liturgy (in English): 'The offered Christ is distributed among us. Alleluia! …”.Particularly suitable for the feast of Corpus Christi and eucharistic occasions in ge...

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