James MacMillan

Kantor, Gemeinde (unisono) und Orgel mit gemischter Chor (SATB), Blechbläser und Pauken ad libitum

This is a setting for children's choir and piano of a Scots language poem by James McGonigal. The music is fashioned appropriately, attempting to capture the rumbustious folksiness of this joyous but...

A short anthem commissioned to mark the enthronement of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams in 2003. Accompanied by a series of Alleluias, it features a text by George Herbert (1593-1633) fou...

The movements set are Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus and Benedictus (together), Acclamation and Agnus Dei. With the inclusion of a Gloria this is a more extended setting than the St Anne's Mass, and the canto...

...here in hiding... is MacMillan's most ambitious vocal work exploring medieval themes, both musically and poetically. St Thomas Aquinas's text Adoro te devote is set both in Latin and in the English...

Klavierauszug mit Solostimme

Duration: ca. 12 minutes.

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 g...

Los Strathclyde Motets son motetes de comunión en los que se interpretan puntales de la misa de varios domingos y fiestas. Son adecuados para coros de nivel intermedio. Esta pieza es una antífona para...

Chorpartitur - Chor unisono und Klavier

Set of opening and communion antiphons for the four Sundays in Advent. The antiphons are sung in English by unison voices (simple standard), and the verses are sung in Latin by a cantor (intermediate...

Die von den schottischen Hebriden stammende einfache wie schöne Melodie dieses Weihnachtsliedes zeichnet sich durch volkstümliche Atmosphäre und tänzerischen Rhythmus aus. Ein zugängliches und ungewöh...

Compuesto en 2019, el Oratorio de Navidad de James MacMillan es una obra sumatoria en su producción, que reúne ajustes de poesía, liturgia y escritura que exploran temas relacionados con el nacimiento...

A setting of a nativity poem from Her Maker's Maker by Michael Symmons Roberts, New-made for a king was commissioned by Andreas Klatt for Farnham Youth Choir. Scored mainly in four parts, the choral t...

Composed in 1978 this is a setting of a Dutch traditional carol. The work opens with an extended passage for solo oboe, molto rubato. The vocal writing includes sections for various combinations of vo...

This carol, extracted from James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio (2020), is an arrangement of the traditional Hebridean melody, ‘Tàladh Chrìosda’, with English text derived from the Scottish Gaelic of...

James MacMillan is the pre-eminent Scottish composer of his generation. This attractive five-minute Advent/Christmas carol for choir and organ sets a poem by Michael Symmons Roberts, a frequent collab...