James MacMillan

Widely admired as one of MacMillan's finest achievements, this promises an absorbing and moving experience in concert, for performers and audience alike. This cantata follows Christ's final utterances...

Composed in 1986 for the wedding of friends of the composer's, and first performed by him at the marriage ceremony. The manuscript recently came to light as the couple celebrated their Silver Wedding...

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...

A welcome addition to this composer’s output of secular choral works, Oh Sleep! is a beautiful and lyrical setting which will be appreciated by choirs both amateur and professional. It was composed to...

Composé pour être joué lors du 2022 Cumnock Tryst, le festival annuel de musique communautaire créé par James MacMillan dans la ville d'Ayrshire où il a grandi. M. MacMillan explique que "mes première...

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,...

Composed in 2016 to commission by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, this is a rescoring of the 2007 Horn Quintet, with the addition of three short preparatory movements. The horn part in this publicatio...

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...

One of MacMillan's earliest successes was his first percussion concerto, Veni, Veni, Emmanuel (1992), firmly established with hundreds of performances to date. Percussion Concerto no 2 was therefore r...

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...

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...

Composée en 2021 et dédiée au soliste Nicola Benedetti, cette œuvre a été écrite en hommage au compositeur polonais Krzysztof Penderecki, décédé l'année précédente et qui a exercé une influence musica...

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...

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...

Mise en musique d'un poème de Noël tiré de Her Maker's Maker de Michael Symmons Roberts New-made for a king a été commandé par Andreas Klatt pour le Farnham Youth Choir. Composée principalement de qua...

Écrite en 1978, cette pièce est une composition sur un chant de Noël hollandais traditionnel. Il commence par un long passage pour hautbois solo, molto rubato. Les voix du ch(oEur se combinent de dive...

On peut définir James McMillan comme 'le' compositeur écossais de sa génération. Ce beau chant de l'avent et de Noël pour ch(oEur et orgue, d'une durée de 5mn, est la mise en musique d'un poème de Mic...

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...