Tenebrae Responsories & other works

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JAMES MacMILLAN
Tenebrae Responsories & other works
Westminster Cathedral Choir, London Brass, Martin Baker (conductor)

[ Hyperion / CD ]

Release Date: Saturday 1 June 2013

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Westminster Cathedral Choir returns to acclaimed Scottish composer James MacMillan, whose powerful, passionate and luminous music has made him one of the best-loved choral composers of today.

Included on this recording is a dramatic setting of the Tenebrae Responsories, a spiritually engaging and emotionally involving work which relates back in its searing intensity and some of its choral effects to Seven Last Words from the Cross (1993) (recorded on Hyperion CDA67460), one of MacMillan's seminal earlier works.

The choir is joined by London Brass for jubilant settings of Tu es Petrus, Summae Trinitati and Ecce sacerdos magnus.

Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice - August 2013

"MacMillan creates a magnificent effusion of sound, over which the trebles of the Westminster Cathedral Choir soar dramatically...[the Edinburgh Te Deum] is particularly valuable, further attesting to MacMillan's reputation as one of the finest living composers of ecclesiastical music. Martin Baker's direction is masterly." BBC Music Magazine, August 2013 ****

"It's hard not to be impressed by the committed and well-disciplined singing of the Westminster Cathedral Choir, particularly its boys, who negotiate MacMillan's difficult melismatic writing and unintuitive harmonies with confidence...The London Brass players are no less enthusiastic, and yet refined." International Record Review, July/August 2013

Tracks:

1 Tu es Petrus [8'17]
Peter Stevens (organ)
Tenebrae Responsories [20'45]
2 Tenebrae factae sunt [6'43]
3 Tradiderunt me [6'04]
4 Jesum tradidit impius [7'58]
5 Summae Trinitati [4'54]
Peter Stevens (organ)
6 Benedictus Deus [5'28]
7 Ave maris stella [4'27]
8 Tota pulchra es [4'32]
Peter Stevens (organ)
9 After Virtue [4'59]
10 Serenity O salutaris hostia [4'47] MacaronicEnglish English Français Deutsch
Peter Stevens (organ)
11 The Edinburgh Te Deum [9'17]
Peter Stevens (organ)
12 Ecce sacerdos magnus [3'28]
Peter Stevens (organ)
13 Tu es Petrus - Processional [2'03]
Peter Stevens (organ)