James MacMillan: Intermediate Sheet Music

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...

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 th...

Scored for large orchestra The Keening was only the second of MacMillan's orchestral works, written between 1985-87 when he was a student of John Casken at the University of Durham. The composer expla...

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...

This five-minute duo was commissioned and first performed by Scott Dickinson and Andrew Berridge, for more than twenty years the first desk viola players of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. This i...

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...

Dieses Klarinettenkonzert feierte 1997 seine Premiere im Rahmen der Feierlichkeitne des 'Year of Ninian'. Ninian von Whithorn war der erste Bischof in diesem Ort und einer der Gründungsväter der Chris...

Originally a ballet score this 30' work is scored with strings and consists of three movements:cumnock fair: A 12-minute fantasy based on dance melodies by the 18th-century Cumnock composer John Frenc...

Sub-titled 'The Mysteries of Light', the composer states that this work attempts to revive the ancient practice of writing music based on the structure of the Rosary. The most famous example of this i...

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...

Setting of Lux aeterna, the communion motet from the Requiem Mass, composed in memoriam James MacMillan Snr, the composer's father. Above a drone sustained throughout the three-minute span the voice w...