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Label Challenge Classics |
UPC 0608917255423 |
Catalogue number CC 72554 |
Release date 05 April 2013 |
"I must say that the music of MacMillan pleases me much, since it emits many aspects and does not get bored quickly. The recording is excellent: a gigantic t stage against an black background "
luister, 03-3-2014Expressieve werken met prachtige liturgische teksten
Dit album met werken van James MacMillan bevat koor– en orkestwerken die in een kenmerkende expressieve stijl gecomponeerd zijn.
De liturgische composities worden sterk door MacMillans diepe katholieke geloof gedomineerd en zijn instrumentele werken stralen in hun glansrijke dramatiek. Één van die werken is O, een advent-antifoon (een vers dat gezongen wordt als inleiding op en ter afsluiting van een psalm tijdens de mis en het getijdengebed) voor een driestemmig koor, trompet en strijkers. MacMillan verwijst in dit werk naar liturgische teksten die net als een aanhef in een brief beginnen met een ‘O’ (bijvoorbeeld ‘O mater dolorose’). Dit komt ook voor in zijn Nunc dimittis en een Magnificat, beide grootschalige, feestelijke composities met glansrijke orkestbegeleiding.
Het oudste werk op dit album is Tryst dat geschreven is voor orkest en dat MacMillan opdroeg aan zijn overleden moeder. De titel en het dramatische einde zijn ontleend aan een Schots gedicht van schrijver William Soutan.
James MacMillan is een succesvolle hedendaagse componist. Ook is hij internationaal actief als dirigent. Zijn muziek zit vol invloeden afkomstig van zijn Schotse roots, katholieke geloof, zijn liefde voor de Keltische volksmuziek en muziek uit het Verre Oosten, Scandinavië en Oost-Europa. MacMillan heeft vele orkesten gedirigeerd en is onder andere gastdirigent van het Nederlandse Radio Filharmonisch Orkest. Met hen brengt hij dit prachtige album ten gehore waar dramatische en gevoelige werken op staan maar ook feestelijke werken voor de vrolijke noot.
James MacMillan is one of today’s most successful composers and is also internationally active as a conductor. His musical language is flooded with influences from his Scottish heritage, Catholic faith, social conscience and close connection with Celtic folk music, blended with influences from Far Eastern, Scandinavian and Eastern European music.
MacMillan first became internationally recognized after the extraordinary success of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie at the BBC Proms in 1990.
His prolific output has since been performed and broadcast around the world. His major works include percussion concerto Veni, Veni, Emmanuel, which
has received more than 400 performances, a cello concerto for Mstislav Rostropovich and three symphonies. Recent major works include his
St John Passion co-commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra,
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Radio Choir, his Violin Concerto, Viola Concerto, St Luke Passion and, most recently, his Percussion Concerto No.2 for Colin Currie, co-commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra, Edinburgh International Festival, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.
MacMillan enjoys a flourishing career as conductor of his own music alongside a range of contemporary and standard repertoire, praised for the composer’s
insight he brings to each score. He was Principal Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic until 2013 and was Composer/ Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic from 2000-2009; he has conducted orchestras such as the Baltimore Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Vienna Radio Symphony, Danish Radio Symphony, Gothenburg Symphony, Luxembourg Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic,
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and NHK Symphony Orchestra among others. MacMillan was Composer in Residence at the 2012 Grafenegg Festival and a London Symphony Orchestra Portrait Artist in the 2009/10 season.
In spring 2014 MacMillan conducted three projects with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, culminating in a ground-breaking tour to India with Nicola Benedetti performing in Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi including
public concerts, schools concerts and outreach work. In the 2014/15 season, MacMillan conducts orchestras including the Bergen Philharmonic, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Britten Sinfonia. In January 2015 he conducts a new production of his opera, Inés de Castro, at Scottish Opera and elsewhere this season conducts choral concerts in Sao Paulo and with the BBC Singers. In October 2014 MacMillan founded his music festival, The Cumnock Tryst, which takes place in his native Ayrshire.
Edward Caswell is a versatile and widely respected choral conductor. Working throughout the UK and Europe he has a reputation for approaching choral conducting from a singer's perspective.
Since 2008 he has been a regular guest with Netherlands Radio Choir preparing them for concerts and recordings with Kenneth Montgomery, Markus Stenz, Masaaki Suzuki and James Gaffigan. Highlights include collaborations with Riccardo Chailly and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and most recently, performances of Elgar's The Kingdom with Edward Gardner and Martyn Brabbins and Mahler Symphony No. 3 with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Daniele Gatti.
Edward works with numerous other professional choirs including the BBC Singers, SWR Vokalensemble, NDR Chor, MDR Rundfunkchor, WDR Rundfunkchor, Bamberg Symphony Choir, the Danish National Choir, Collegium Vocale Gent and Vlaams Radio Koor.
In 2013 Edward founded Cromarty Youth Opera presenting Noye's Fludde by Benjamin Britten. The company returned to Britten last year with The Little Sweep and in August this year present Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell.
Engagements this season include preparing Netherlands Radio Choir for performances of The Gospel According the Other Mary by John Adams in Strasbourg and Cologne, preparing Collegium Vocale Gent for Verdi Quattro Pezzi Sacri and Mahler Symphony No. 3, preparing MDR Rundfunkchor for a Handel programme with Diego Fasolis, and preparing the combined choirs of MDR and NDR for Matthäus-Passion in the Mendelssohn version with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Trevor Pinnock.
Edward regularly leads workshops with children and adults and directs 'Health and Wellbeing Through Song' at the University of Strathclyde. He is a council member and regular presenter for the Association of British Choral Directors.
James MacMillan is one of today’s most successful composers and is also internationally active as a conductor. His musical language is flooded with influences from his Scottish heritage, Catholic faith, social conscience and close connection with Celtic folk music, blended with influences from Far Eastern, Scandinavian and Eastern European music.
MacMillan first became internationally recognized after the extraordinary success of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie at the BBC Proms in 1990.
His prolific output has since been performed and broadcast around the world. His major works include percussion concerto Veni, Veni, Emmanuel, which
has received more than 400 performances, a cello concerto for Mstislav Rostropovich and three symphonies. Recent major works include his
St John Passion co-commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra,
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Radio Choir, his Violin Concerto, Viola Concerto, St Luke Passion and, most recently, his Percussion Concerto No.2 for Colin Currie, co-commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra, Edinburgh International Festival, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.
MacMillan enjoys a flourishing career as conductor of his own music alongside a range of contemporary and standard repertoire, praised for the composer’s
insight he brings to each score. He was Principal Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic until 2013 and was Composer/ Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic from 2000-2009; he has conducted orchestras such as the Baltimore Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Vienna Radio Symphony, Danish Radio Symphony, Gothenburg Symphony, Luxembourg Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic,
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and NHK Symphony Orchestra among others. MacMillan was Composer in Residence at the 2012 Grafenegg Festival and a London Symphony Orchestra Portrait Artist in the 2009/10 season.
In spring 2014 MacMillan conducted three projects with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, culminating in a ground-breaking tour to India with Nicola Benedetti performing in Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi including
public concerts, schools concerts and outreach work. In the 2014/15 season, MacMillan conducts orchestras including the Bergen Philharmonic, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Britten Sinfonia. In January 2015 he conducts a new production of his opera, Inés de Castro, at Scottish Opera and elsewhere this season conducts choral concerts in Sao Paulo and with the BBC Singers. In October 2014 MacMillan founded his music festival, The Cumnock Tryst, which takes place in his native Ayrshire.
I must say that the music of MacMillan pleases me much, since it emits many aspects and does not get bored quickly. The recording is excellent: a gigantic t stage against an black background
luister, 03-3-2014
It is an excellent demonstration of the benefits accuring when a composer is also a technically fine conductor.
BBC Music Magazine, 01-11-2013
"This is music that matters, both in its mystical and in its secular sense"
www.opusklassiek.nl, 25-9-2013
"MacMillan’s music may initially seem heavy and tough to penetrate but this excellently performed second volume is approachable, with a reasonable amount of concentration, and will certainly bring rewards"
www.musicweb-international.com, 12-9-2013
James MacMillan’s conducting provides textural and structural clarity while the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic respond with style.
Music Web International, 01-9-2013
I must say that the music of MacMillan extremely pleases me, since it shows many aspects, and does not get bored quickly.
Luister, 31-7-2013
This is clearly a fine choir but somehow it seems akward and clumsy in this repertoire, making too much of a meal of the dynamics and phrasing, and in the process obscuring the inherend beauty of Macmillan's inspired writing
Gramophone, 01-7-2013
All compositions demonstrate the beautifully rounded atmospheric effect, deriving from a thoughtful, modern writing style that makes MacMillan one of today's most popular composers of religious music.
Scotland On Sunday, 30-6-2013
The recordings are delightful: A gigantic insightful stage against a pitch black background.
Luister, 17-6-2013
This composer-conducted performance is no doubt the best way to get to know, understand and perhaps even love the work...
International Record Review, 01-6-2013
Excellent performances.
Financial Times, 18-5-2013
Breathtaking.
Platomania, 05-5-2013
The Catholic MacMillan writes melodious choral music with an edge, convincingly sung by the Radio Choir.
NRC Handelsblad