Choral; String Orchestra
(Study Score)
SKU:
HL.48024551
Choir
and String Orchestra.
Composed by James
Macmillan. Boosey &
Hawkes Scores/Books.
Classical. Softcover. 140
pages. Duration 3180
seconds. Boosey & Hawkes
#M060135071. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48024551).
ISBN
9781784544393. UPC:
888680916695.
7.25x10.0x0.472 inches.
Text: Jacopone de
Todi.
Composed in
2015, Stabat Mater was
commissioned by the
Genesis Foundation for
Harry Christophers and
The Sixteen. Scored for
mixed chorus and string
orchestra, it is a
long-awaited sequel to
the early masterpiece
Seven Last Words from the
Cross (1993), for the
same forces; indeed, the
later work begins with
the pianissimo 'dying
breaths' with which the
earlier score so
unforgettably closes.
Cast in four movements,
Stabat Mater has a
duration of 53 minutes.
Following the premiere
London's Financial Times
commented that the
composer speaks of a
'painful world of loss,
violence, and spiritual
desolation'. Both sides
of MacMillan are to be
found here, the
devotional and the
painter of bold, dramatic
canvases - the former in
the ethereal writing for
solo and ensemble voices,
the latter in the
lacerating blows and
feverish anxieties
depicted in the string
ensemble..