James MacMillan

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

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.

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...

The Strathclyde Motets are communion motets setting propers of the mass for various Sundays and feasts. They are suitable for intermediate standard choirs. This piece is an antiphon for 21st December,...

Chorpartitur - Chor unisono und Klavier

Set of opening and communion antiphons for the four Sundays in Advent. The antiphons are sung in English by unison voices (simple standard), and the verses are sung in Latin by a cantor (intermediate...

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...

Since publication in 1997, MacMillan's The Galloway Mass has established itself as one of the most popular congregational mass settings in churches of various denominations around the world. With the...

Composed in 2019, James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio is a summatory work in his output, collecting together settings of poetry, liturgy and scripture which explore themes related to the birth of Jes...

A setting of a nativity poem from Her Maker's Maker by Michael Symmons Roberts, New-made for a king was commissioned by Andreas Klatt for Farnham Youth Choir. Scored mainly in four parts, the choral t...

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...