James MacMillan : Partitions moyen

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...

Une adaptation puissante pour chœur à huit voix de trois des réponses du Vendredi saint aux matines : « Tenebrae factae sunt », « Tradiderunt me » et « Iesum tradidit impius ». Œuvre commandée par Cap...

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...

Mise en musique du Psaume 45 (46) en latin, commandée par le Leeds Festival Chorus, qui l'a également jouée pour la première fois en mars 2014 au Leeds Town Hall sous la direction de Simon Wright. Cet...

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 pour trio avec piano est un assemblage de 14 miniatures si compilées et entremêlées qu'elles constituent une œuvre intégrale d'un seul tenant d'environ 25 minutes. Cette musiq...

Cet album contient quatre courtes pièces avec chacune desquelles James MacMillan rend hommage à un compositeur vivant. Trois d'entre elles sont écrites pour un quintette avec piano, la quatrième, pour...

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...

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...

Une mise en musique déchirante des paroles de Notre-Dame de Guadalupe à Saint Juan Diego (en anglais). Selon la légende, la 'Vierge de Guadalupe' est apparue à Juan Diego en 1531 avec la mission d'éri...

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...