James MacMillan

Extended instrumental solo taken from MacMillan's 70-90-minute Since it was the day of Preparation … for voices & ensemble, commissioned by the Hebrides Ensemble, Edinburgh International Festival, Sol...

Extended instrumental solo taken from MacMillan's 70-90-minute Since it was the day of Preparation - for voices & ensemble, commissioned by the Hebrides Ensemble, Edinburgh International Festival, Sol...

A welcome addition to this composer’s output of secular choral works, Oh Sleep! is a beautiful and lyrical setting which will be appreciated by choirs both amateur and professional. It was composed to...

Composed for performance at the 2022 Cumnock Tryst, the community-based annual music festival established by James MacMillan in the Ayrshire town where he grew up. MacMillan comments that “my earliest...

Virtuosic, single-movement work of 15 minutes' duration commissioned for the Nash Ensemble and the 2007 Cheltenham Music Festival. Horn players may perform from the horn & piano reduction of the Conce...

Extended instrumental solo taken from MacMillan's 70-90-minute 'Since it was the day of Preparation ...' for voices & ensemble, commissioned by the Hebrides Ensemble, Edinburgh International Festival,...

Composed in 2016 to commission by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, this is a rescoring of the 2007 Horn Quintet, with the addition of three short preparatory movements. The horn part in this publicatio...

Extended instrumental solo taken from MacMillan's 70-90-minute Since it was the day of Preparation ... for voices & ensemble, commissioned by the Hebrides Ensemble, Edinburgh International Festival, S...

One of MacMillan's 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 r...

A major addition to the concertante trombone repertory, this single-movement work lasting 30 minutes was premiered in 2017 by Jörgen van Rijen and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Iván...

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...

This publication gathers together three miniatures for string quartet, all composed 'in memoriam' a particular individual. Memento (4 minutes) was written in memory of the composer's friend, David Hun...

Composed in 2021 and dedicated to the soloist Nicola Benedetti, this work was written as a memorial tribute to the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, who died the previous year and was a major musi...

Scored for soprano saxophone and string orchestra, the composer states that this short concerto is based on archetypes of Scottish traditional music. The first movement, March, Strathspey and Reel, fo...

A seraph is a celestial being or angel, usually and traditionally associated with trumpets. MacMillan's Seraph is a concertino for trumpet and strings, in three short, contrasting movements, and a wel...

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 gr...

Fourteen Little Pictures for piano trio is a set of 14 separate miniatures, stitched together and interwoven to form a single through-composed work, lasting about 25 minutes. The music presents the me...

Dieses einsätzige Werk von 13 Minuten Länge entstand 2013 als Auftragskomposition des Gould Piano Trio, dem Bath International Music Festival, Glasgow Music und dem East Neuk Festival. Als bedeutender...

Album comprising short pieces, each written in honour of a living composer. Three are scored for piano quintet, the other for piano quartet.For Michael (piano quintet) was composed in 2004 to mark Mic...

This, MacMillan's second string quartet was commissioned in 1998 by the Maggini Quartet. The work's title is taken from the Jewish rite of commemoration on the Seder Night, which is that before Pesach...

This, MacMillan's second string quartet was commissioned in 1998 by the Maggini Quartet. The work's title is taken from the Jewish rite of commemoration on the Seder Night, which is that before Pesach...