Partitions James MacMillan pour violon

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...

Composed at the request of Nicola Benedetti, the work's title plays on the common link of both MacMillan and Benedetti's Ayrshire backgrounds. In the first of the two short movements the folksong 'Ca'...

The first movement begins with a short, punchy motive, which kicks off a fast, jerky solo violin theme. This is followed by a high, floating singing line, with murmuring accompaniment. The second move...

Subtitled Before the Tryst, this sonata is in one sense a 'prequel' to the similarly scored miniature, After the Tryst (1988). The composer explains that these and other works with 'Tryst' in the titl...