Baritone, Choral,
Orchestra (Study Score)
SKU: HL.48024806
The Passion of our
Lord Jesus Christ
according to John Study
Score. Composed by
James Macmillan. Boosey &
Hawkes Scores/Books.
Classical, Sacred.
Softcover. 380 pages.
Boosey & Hawkes
#M060134470. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(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.