James MacMillan

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...

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...

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...

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 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 S...

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...

Klavierauszug für 2 Klaviere

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...

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

Bring vibrant energy and sonic freshness to your concert band's repertoire with "Sowetan Spring", published by the renowned Boosey & Hawkes. This captivating piece masterfully captures the spirit of r...

Experience contemporary sound art at its most intense with "in angustiis... II", published by the renowned Boosey & Hawkes. This extraordinary solo work for oboe unfolds a fascinating sonic world brim...

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.