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...

14 communion motets for specific liturgical occasions, composed from 2005-10 for performances by Strathclyde University Chamber Choir. Scoring is for mixed voices, many of the pieces with divisi, and...

14 communion motets for specific liturgical occasions, composed from 2005-10 for performances by Strathclyde University Chamber Choir. Scoring is for mixed voices, many of the pieces with divisi, and...

Mise en musique de Noël pour voix aiguës (à trois voix) d'un texte traditionnel anglais du XVe siècle avec un refrain latin : 'Gabriel of high degree ...' / 'Ut nova : Ave fit ex Eva'. L'édition conti...

Dans sa version originale pour voix mixtes, The Gallant Weaver de MacMillan est devenu un favori ; cet arrangement étend maintenant la mise en scène aux voix supérieures. Paul Spicer commente : "Cette...

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.

Composée en 1980 et révisée en 2010, l'(oEuvre repose sur le Pange lingua de Thomas d'Aquin dans une traduction en anglais moderne. Le choral est hymnique comme le veut la tradition et contient un pas...

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

La pièce repose sur un texte extrait de l'Apocalypse (21, 1-6a). Commanditée par Soli Deo Gloria avec le soutien de Crossway Bibles et de l'université de Chicago, la première a eu lieu en juin 2011 av...

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...

Composition sur le psaume 127 (en anglais), commanditée par le marquis et la marquise de Salisbury pour fêter les 400 ans d'existence de Hatfield House. La première a eu lieu le 11 septembre 2011, cha...