Browse: SACD, MacMillan (composer)
Return to SACD.
-
Brahms: Symphony No.4 & MacMillan: Larghetto for Orchestra
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
In this outstanding performance of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony, Manfred Honeck draws a wonderfully rich, almost Central European string sound from the Pittsburgh Symphony, matched by equally mellifluous... — More…
Awards:
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
MacMillan: St. Luke Passion
RecommendedPeter 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…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 6th April 2015
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
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…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, Choral & Song Choice
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
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…
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Offer,
Meditatio: Music for Mixed Choir Rakel Edda Guðmundsdóttir (soprano), Ragnheiður Sara Grímsdóttir (soprano), Thelma Hrönn Sigurdórsdóttir (soprano), Kirstín Erna Blöndal (soprano), Jóhanna Ósk Valsdóttir (alto), Helgi Steinar Helgason (tenor), Fjölnir Ólafsson (bass)
Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis, Hörður Áskelsson
The singers have a distinctive timbre, with strength held in reserve in almost every item — More…
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Awards:
-
Building a Library, June 2017, Also Recommended
-
-
Offer,
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…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Choral
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
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…
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Offer,
Hear My Words: Choral Classics from St John’s Timothy Ravalde (organ), Timothy Ravalde (organ) & Helen Scarbrough (cor anglais), Timothy Ravalde (organ) & Graham Walker (cello)
Choir of St John’s College, Andrew Nethsingha
the poised, sentient performance of Allegri's famous Miserere opening the disc bespeaks dedicated preparation, both technical and spiritual. I like the spatial variegations drawn by [Andrew Nethsinga]...and... — More…
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
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…
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3?
