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Owain Park on Radiant Dawn
15th Dec 2025by David Smith
The director of The Gesualdo Six talks about the group's new album, which sees them collaborating with trumpeter Matilda Lloyd.
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Rory Macdonald on Our Gilded Veins
1st Jul 2024by Katherine Cooper
The conductor discusses his new album of contemporary orchestral works with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, released last month on Linn and featuring music by Anna Clyne, Sir James MacMillan, Martin Suckling & Jay Capperauld.
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Tallis, MacMillan and more from ORA Singers
21st Aug 2020by David Smith
ORA Singers pair Tallis's mighty Spem in Alium with a newly-composed forty-part motet by James MacMillan, alongside a treasure-trove of choral works commissioned by Tudor nobility.
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James MacMillan discusses his Stabat Mater
6th Apr 2017by David Smith
As a follow-up to our earlier interview with Harry Christophers, the Scottish composer talks to David about his new work.
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James MacMillan's new work on the Resurrection
24th Jun 2016by David Smith
David listens to James MacMillan's new work on the Resurrection, with the Hebrides Ensemble and Brindley Sherratt.
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James Macmillan on 'Since it was the day of preparation…'
20th Jun 2016by David Smith
David talks to the composer about his new setting of the story of the Resurrection, out on Friday on Delphian.
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Passion settings by James MacMillan and JS Bach
6th Apr 2015by David Smith
David listens to two very different musical responses to the Passion story – James MacMillan's new St Luke Passion and the Academy of Ancient Music's performance of Bach's time-honoured St Matthew.