SKU: HL.48024806

ISBN 9781784543792. UPC: 888680978648. 8.25x11.75 inches.

Scored for baritone solo, small 'narrator' chorus, large chorus and orchestra, MacMillan's first Passion setting was composed in 2007. Lasting 87 minutes the work is divided into two parts, with 10 movements overall. As Paul Spicer has commented, “The originality of the St John Passion lies in MacMillan's ability to mix old with new, rather in the manner of Bach in his day. There are passages of sumptuous polyphony and there is a fresh look at the text where passages of Latin are interspersed with the Gospel story in English. In movement seven ('Jesus and his Mother'), MacMillan introduces not only part of the Stabat Mater but also his own words ('Lully, lulla, my dear darling'). The final movement, which is purely orchestral, is a kind of via doloroso march with a Scots lament over quite brass chords. The string writing here, with its elegiac cello lines, is deeply reminiscent of the early 20th-century English school. This should be the War Requiem of the 21st century.&rdquo.

SKU: HL.48022984

ISBN 9780851629315. UPC: 884088965709. 5.25x7.5x0.225 inches.

The fifth work in a fourteen composition cycle, Orkney Sagas, inspired by an exhibition at the 1993 St Magnus Festival in Orkney. The exhibition featured canvasses commemorating the 1151 crusade to Jerusalem.

SKU: HL.48022406

ISBN 9781476805429. UPC: 884088665005. 9.0x12.0x0.081 inches. Archive Edition.