(Išleidimo metai: 2020, Studyscore, Leidėjas: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784545154)
This publication presents under one cover various short works for sundry orchestral scorings. Larghetto for Orchestra is MacMillans orchestration (2017) of his celebrated Miserere for a cappella mixed choir (2009), a setting inLatin of Psalm 51, Ha...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 2019, Book [Softcover], Leidėjas: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784545611)
Commissioned by John Scott Whiteley, Organist Emeritus of York Minster, who gave the first performance in July 2019 at Gloucester Cathedral as part of the Three Choirs Festival. Cast in a single, eight-minute span the work isstructurally a rondo cont...Daugiau...
Non-liturgical setting of the Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei from the Latin Mass, scored for 4-part childrens choir and full orchestra. The composer states that each movement is reasonably substantial, with much space for theorchestral music to grow a...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 2017, Piano Reduction, Leidėjas: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9780851627816)
Commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Town Hall, Birmingham, in 2009-10. Nicholas Daniel gave the premiere with Britten Sinfonia and together they have performed it many times since, with a recording on the Harmonia Mundilabel.In three contr...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 2017, Studyscore, Leidėjas: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9780851628219)
Commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Town Hall, Birmingham, in 2009-10. Nicholas Daniel gave the premiere with Britten Sinfonia and together they have performed it many times since, with a recording on the Harmonia Mundi label.In three contr...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 2017, Piano Reduction, Leidėjas: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784540807)
Commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and first performed in 2013 by Lawrence Power with the LPO, conducted by VladimirJurowski. Cast in...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 2017, Studyscore, Leidėjas: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784542047)
Symphony: Vigil (1997) is the last of three interrelated works forming Triduum, commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, the other works being The Worlds Ransoming, for cor anglais and orchestra, and the CelloConcerto (both 1996)....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 2017, Studyscore, Leidėjas: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784542054)
Scored for chamber orchestra and dating from 1999, this work is built on MacMillans,/i> shorter Piano Sonata of 1985. That work was composed during a bitter Ayrshire winter: the composer recalls the barren trees and hardfrozen ground of a land...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 2017, Studyscore, Leidėjas: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784542061)
The inspiration for this work came from the novel Silence by the great Japanese writer, Sh saku End (1923 96). His book asks profound philosophical questions and resonates with one of the most anguished questions asked 2,000years ago, My God, my...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 2017, Studyscore, Leidėjas: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784542078)
Unlike MacMillans first three symphonies Symphony no 4 (2014 15) is essentially abstract. Here he is interested in the interplay of different types of material, following upon a fascination with music as ritualthat has stretched fro...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 2017, Studyscore, Leidėjas: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784542870)
This clarinet concerto was premiered in 1997 as part of the celebrations of the Year of Ninian, one of the founding fathers of Christianity in Scotland. St Ninian, the first bishop of Whithorn, was believed to have arrived inGalloway in the south-...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 2017, Studyscore, Leidėjas: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784542887)
Commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and first performed in 2013 by Lawrence Power with the LPO, conducted by VladimirJurowski. Cast in...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 2017, Studyscore, Leidėjas: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784542894)
One of MacMillans earliest successes was his first percussion concerto, Veni, Veni, Emmanuel (1992), firmly established with hundreds of performances to date. Percussion Concerto no 2 was therefore received with greatexcitement at its prem...Daugiau...
A setting of verses from Psalm 42 (43) with Gloria Patri, commissioned by the Schola Cantorum of The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, London, to mark the Schools centenary in 2014 (Latin text): Send out your light and yourtruth; these themselve...Daugiau...
This setting of Charles Hamilton Sorley’s war poem was composed for Genesis Sixteen to perform at the 2015 Cumnock Tryst, James MacMillan’s own music festival in Ayrshire, Scotland, marking the centenary ofSorley’s death...Daugiau...
This work was commissioned by the Friends of Cathedral Music to mark their Diamond Jubilee in 2016, with the intention of performance by as many of the affiliated choirs as possible.Naturally a celebratory anthem was envisaged but with a text that is...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 2015, Studyscore, Leidėjas: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784540722)
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 the two big works heard earlier the Tchaikovsky 4t...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 2015, Studyscore, Leidėjas: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9780851627847)
Tryst, for chamber orchestra, was composed in 1989 and has since established itself both in the concert hall and as a ballet score. The composer explains the genesis of the work in the form of a love poem by William Soutar written in broad Scots, cal...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 2015, Studyscore, Leidėjas: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784540647)
Scored for large orchestra The Keening was only the second of MacMillans orchestral works, written between 1985 87 when he was a student of John Casken at the University of Durham. The composer explains that keening is a form of vocal lament assoc...Daugiau...
Scored for chorus, childrens choir, organ and chamber orchestra, St Luke Passion adopts a pared-back focus on choral voices over its 75-minute span. Seeking a more spiritual, inward approach to match Lukes text, the composer eschews settings of int...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 2015, Part, Leidėjas: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784540708)
Scored for chorus, childrens choir, organ and chamber orchestra, St Luke Passion adopts a pared-back focus on choral voices over its 75-minute span. Seeking a more spiritual, inward approach to match Lukes text, the composer eschews settings of int...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 2015, Set, Leidėjas: Boosey and Hawkes, ISBN-13: 9781784540777)
The composer states thatthe 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 gradually evolving harmonic pattern. The repetitive...Daugiau...
A setting of Psalm 45 (46) in Latin commissioned by the Leeds Festival Chorus and first performed by them in Leeds Town Hall in March 2014, conducted by Simon Wright. The work features a variety of choral and organ textures, tempi and moods over its...Daugiau...
