Last Words from the Cross / Christus vincit / Nemo te condemnavit / here in hiding

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JAMES MacMILLAN
Last Words from the Cross / Christus vincit / Nemo te condemnavit / here in hiding
Dmitri Ensemble / Graham Ross

[ Naxos / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 1 May 2009

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"Notwithstanding its inexpensive price, recording, production, singing and playing are excellent. The disc is attractively presented with informative notes by the composer, full lyrics and a cover featuring a painting on the same theme by Graham Sutherland." (MusicWeb July 2009)

"This is the work's third recording… and, on balance, the most compelling and inexorable-sounding yet. Graham Ross secures outstandingly fervent and finely disciplined results from the youthful Dmitri Ensemble… while the remaining three items are just as impressive, especially the radiantly soaring anthem for double choir Christus vincit...technically speaking the disc is little short of a triumph in its combination of truthful sonority and wholly natural perspective." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Sept 2009

"Notwithstanding its inexpensive price, recording, production, singing and playing are excellent. The disc is attractively presented with informative notes by the composer, full lyrics and a cover featuring a painting on the same theme by Graham Sutherland." (MusicWeb July 2009)

"In recent years it has been an enormous thrill hearing my music being performed by The Dmitri Ensemble. This excellent, young ensemble brings a breath of fresh air to music making in this country, and are fortunate to have in their director Graham Ross one of the most exciting new musicians to appear on the radar." James MacMillan

Naxos is delighted to mark James Macmillan's 50th birthday with this disc on Naxos, bringing together a number of different choral works from 1993 to 2005.

This disc contains two world première recordings and is produced by John Rutter , who spoke of the Dmitri Ensemble in the following terms : "They are the stars of the future."

Tracks:

7 LAST WORDS FROM THE CROSS:
1. Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do 00:06:02
2. Woman, Behold Thy son!… Behold, Thy Mother! 00:05:59
3. Verily, I say unto, today thou shalt be with me in Paradise 00:08:15
4. Eli, Eli, lama sabachtani? 00:07:11
5. I thirst 00:05:46
6. It is finished 00:06:56
7. Father, into Thy hands I commend my Spirit 00:07:13

8. Christus Vincit 00:06:18
9. Nemo te condemnavit 00:05:17
10. …here in hiding… (version for chorus) 00:11:40

Total Playing Time: 01:10:37