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Vaughan Williams & James Macmillan: Oboe Concertos
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Nicholas Daniel (oboe & conductor), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais)
Britten Sinfonia, James MacMillan
[Daniel] tends to let the tempo slacken when the harmonic pulse slows down [on the Vaughan Williams]...it's hard to complain when that leaves more space for his consistently golden tone...MacMillan... — More…
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MacMillan: St. Luke Passion
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Peter Dicke (organ)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Choir & National Youth Choir, Markus Stenz
The music is good at portraying the extremes of almighty power. — More…
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Alpha & Omega: Choral Music by James MacMillan
Madeleine Mitchell (violin)
Cappella Nova, Alan Tavener & James MacMillan
Cappella Nova make James MacMillan's Missa Dunelmi sound much easier to sing than it is, and that's a compliment...Perhaps it helps having MacMillan himself directing: it's interesting his default... — More…
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MacMillan - Visitatio Sepulchri & Sun-Dogs
Netherlands Radio Choir & Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, James MacMillan, Celso Antunes
[Sun Dogs] is a tour de force of choral writing, in which Macmillan is always assured and in the layered execuition of which the Dutch professional choir excels, it sets texts by Michael Symmons... — More…
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Horizon 8
Jörgen van Rijen (trombone), Félix Dervaux (horn), Evez Abdulla (baritone)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir, Iván Fischer, Ryan Wigglesworth, Martyn Brabbins
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Horizon 5
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel, Martyn Brabbins, Markus Stenz, David Robertson, Susanna Mälkki
With its roster of star conductors specialising in contemporary music, and recordings of superfine technical quality, this well-filled disc provides satisfaction and provocation in equal measure. — More…
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MacMillan: St John Passion
Christopher Maltman (baritone)
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
An 80th-birthday gift for Sir Colin Davis, James MacMillan's 90-minute setting of the St JohnPassion divides into two parts and is cast in 10 movements, the last of which comprises a deeply affecting... — More…
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MacMillan - Quickening & The Sacrifice
The Hilliard Ensemble, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Youth Chorus & BBC Philharmonic, James MacMillan
Quickening itself could be described as 'catholic' in many senses: in the music's daringly wide stylistic embrace; in the ritual element that interweaves surprisingly easily with purposeful symphonic... — More…