James MacMillan

A large-scale work scored for counter-tenor, two tenors and baritone, children's choir, SATB choir and orchestra, exploring themes of birth, new life and new impulses. The writing is at one turn intim...

Scored for baritone solo, small 'narrator' chorus, large chorus and orchestra, MacMillan's first Passion setting was composed in 2007. Lasting 87 minutes the work is divided into two parts, with 10 mo...

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Dieses Klarinettenkonzert feierte 1997 seine Premiere im Rahmen der Feierlichkeitne des 'Year of Ninian'. Ninian von Whithorn war der erste Bischof in diesem Ort und einer der Gründungsväter der Chris...

Originally a ballet score this 30' work is scored with strings and consists of three movements:cumnock fair: A 12-minute fantasy based on dance melodies by the 18th-century Cumnock composer John Frenc...

Sub-titled 'The Mysteries of Light', the composer states that this work attempts to revive the ancient practice of writing music based on the structure of the Rosary. The most famous example of this i...

This publication presents under one cover various short works for sundry orchestral scorings.Larghetto for Orchestra is MacMillan's orchestration (2017) of his celebrated Miserere for a cappella mixed...

Von der Britten Sinfonia und der Town Hall in Birmingham in Auftrag gegeben, wurde das Stück 2009-10 komponiert. Seine Uraufführung erlebte es mit Nicholas Daniel als Solisten und der Britten Sinfonie...

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MacMillans Violakonzert wurde vom London Philharmonic Orchestra, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra und Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in Auftrag gegeben und 2013 mit Lawrence Powe...

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 movem...

Britannia was written in 1994 as a celebration of a major force in our musical life, the British orchestra. The work fulfils a commission from British Telecommunications plc with the Association of Br...

Concert overture for orchestra, first performed in 2007 by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Colin Davis. The Times described the five-minute piece as 'an irreverent deconstruction of th...

The Sacrifice is my second opera, written for WNO and premiered in 2007. It is based on one of the Mabinogian stories, a collection of ancient Welsh myths. It is a tale of love set amidst a civil or c...

Composed in 1991 this London Sinfonietta commission was first performed by them in May 1992 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Scored 'for orchestra or chamber orchestra' the instrumentation compris...

The composer states that this work is a fusion of symphonic poem and concerto for orchestra. The title refers to a figure in the Book of Revelation whose exact identity has been open to a number of in...

Scored for large orchestra The Keening was only the second of MacMillan's orchestral works, written between 1985-87 when he was a student of John Casken at the University of Durham. The composer expla...

Die Symphony: 'Vigil' (1997) ist das letzte von drei miteinander verbundenen Werken, die zusammen Triduum formen, das vom London Symphony Orchestra in Auftrag gegeben wurde. Die beiden anderen Stücke...

Geschrieben im Jahr 1999 für Kammerorchester, baut diese Symphonie auf MacMillans kurzer Klaviersonate aus dem Jahr 1985 auf. Diese Sonate entstand in einem bitterkalten Winter in Ayrshire: Der Kompon...

Die Inspiration zu diesem Werk entsprang der Novelle Silence des großen japanischen Schriftstellers Shusaku Endo (1923-96). In seinem Buch stellt der Autor profunde philosophische Fragen und beschäfti...

Anders als seine ersten drei Sinfonien ist MacMillans Symphony No. 4 (2014-15) in erster Linie abstrakt. In dieser Sinfonie ist der Komponist am Wechselspiel verschiedener Arten von Materialien intere...