James MacMillan: Partituras medio

Gemischter Chor und Orgel, Harfe oder 3 Instrumente.

Atmospheric setting of the Advent antiphon for 21st December, 'O Radiant Dawn, Splendour of eternal light, Sun of Justice, come, shine on those who dwell in darkness ...' The organ part is a transcrip...

Atmospheric settings of poems in Scottish and in English by William Soutar (1898-1943), a central figure in the Scottish literary renaissance: Scots Song (6 mins), Ballad (4 mins) and The Children (6...

In splendoribus sanctorum is a communion motet for Nativity Midnight Mass. The obbligato trumpet (or organ) performs completely independently of the choir. The four obbligato passages are cued by the...

Especially commissioned by the Dean & Chapter of Westminster for performance at the Funeral Service of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey on Monday 19 September 2022. The text, f...

Setting of Latin text combining a versicle at Matins on the Feast of St Andrew with a fragment of a prayer attributed to him.

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...

Esta breve pero sobrecogedora pieza ceremonial fue encargada por la Catedral de Westminster para la visita del Papa Benedicto XVI en 2010. Órgano, metales y timbales retumban en torno al texto cantado...

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...

Esta publicación reúne tres miniaturas para cuarteto de cuerda, todas ellas compuestas "in memoriam" de una persona en particular. Memento (4 minutos) fue escrita en memoria del amigo del compositor,...

In its original scoring for mixed voices MacMillan's The Gallant Weaver has become a favourite; this arrangement now extends the setting to upper voices. Paul Spicer comments, 'This ideal introduction...

Setting of a prayer by Mother Cornelia Connelly, foundress of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus in 1846 and latterly Mayfield School. In 1863 she was inspired to transform the ruins of the Old Palac...

Compuesto para ser interpretado en el 2022 Cumnock Tryst, el festival anual de música comunitario creado por James MacMillan en la ciudad de Ayrshire donde creció. MacMillan comenta que "mis primeras...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Berserkers were special warriors common to the Vikings and the ancient Celtic tribes who would work themselves into a frenzy with mead, mushrooms and hyperventilation to achieve performances of feroci...

New, corrected edition of MacMillan's breakthrough work, a sensation at the 1990 BBC Proms. The work is now firmly established in the contemporary orchestral repertoire worldwide and championed by lea...

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...