Chamber Orchestra;
Orchestra; String
Orchestra (Study Score)
SKU: HL.48024880
Study Score.
Composed by James
Macmillan. Boosey &
Hawkes Scores/Books.
Classical. Softcover. 80
pages. Duration 900
seconds. Boosey & Hawkes
#M060136009. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48024880).
ISBN
9781784545154. UPC:
840126918670.
7.25x10.25x0.319
inches.
This
publication presents
under one cover various
short works for sundry
orchestral scorings.
Larghetto for Orchestra
is MacMillan's
orchestration (2017) of
his celebrated Miserere
for a cappella mixed
choir (2009), a setting
in Latin of Psalm 51,
'Have mercy upon me, O
God, according to thy
great mercy', the
penitential text famously
set in the 17th century
by Gregorio Allegri. The
Larghetto orchestration
was commissioned by the
Pittsburgh Symphony
Orchestra in celebration
of Manfred Honeck's 10th
Anniversary as Music
Director. Memoire
imperiale is one of a
number of variations on
General John Reids march
tune Old Gaul
commissioned from
Scottish composers to
mark the centenary in
1994 of the Faculty of
Music at Edinburgh
University. The Faculty
was established following
a bequest by General Reid
(1721-1807), a former law
student at the University
and a renowned flute
player and composer of
marches for the
BritishArmy, and he asked
that an annual concert be
organised at which one or
more of his compositions
be played. Composed in
2012 for the Britten
Sinfonia, One is a monody
in which a single line is
passed around the
instruments, painting it
with different colours as
it emerges and develops.
Lasting only a few
minutes, its singularity
is maintained until
blossoming in the lastfew
bars. For Sonny (2011,
orch 2013) and Ein
Lamplein verlosch (2018,
orch 2019) are short,
private memorial tributes
originally for string
quartet and here rescored
for string orchestra.
Hirta was composed in
2016 as part of Deccas
The Lost Songs of St
Kilda project. Nearly a
century ago, the last 36
residents were evacuated
from the most remote part
of the British Isles, St
Kilda, an isolated
archipelago off the
beautiful and rugged
western coast of
Scotland. After 86 years,
the music of St Kilda was
rediscovered, recorded in
a Scottish care home by
Trevor Morrison, an
elderly man who had been
taught piano by an
inhabitant of St Kilda.
The songs were
'reimagined' for the
Decca album by
various.
