MacMillan: Tenebrae Responsories: & other choral works

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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... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Jun 2013
Catalogue No: CDA67970
Label: Hyperion
Length: 72 minutes

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MacMillan: Tu es Petrus

Work length4:12

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Peter Stevens (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Choir, London Brass
Martin Baker

anon.: Dignus est Agnus

Work length4:04

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Peter Stevens (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Choir
Martin Baker

MacMillan: Tenebrae Responsories

Work length20:43

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Alexander Hopkins (treble)
Westminster Cathedral Choir
Martin Baker

I. Tenebrae factae sunt

Track length6:43

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II. Tradiderunt me

Track length6:03

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III. Jesum tradidit impius

Track length7:57

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MacMillan: Summae Trinitati

Work length4:54

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Peter Stevens (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Choir, London Brass
Martin Baker

MacMillan: Benedictus Deus

Work length5:27

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Westminster Cathedral Choir
Martin Baker

MacMillan: Ave maris stella

Work length4:27

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Westminster Cathedral Choir
Martin Baker

MacMillan: Tota pulchra es

Work length4:32

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Peter Stevens (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Choir
Martin Baker

MacMillan: After Virtue

Work length4:59

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Westminster Cathedral Choir
Martin Baker

MacMillan: Serenity

Work length4:46

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Peter Stevens (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Choir
Martin Baker

MacMillan: The Edinburgh Te Deum

Work length9:16

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Peter Stevens (organ), David Knight (tenor), William Gaunt (bass)
Westminster Cathedral Choir
Martin Baker

MacMillan: Ecce sacerdos magnus

Work length3:28

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Andrew Crowley (trumpet), Daniel Newell (trumpet), Peter Stevens (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Choir
Martin Baker

MacMillan: Processional on Tu es Petrus

Work length2:02

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Peter Stevens (organ)
London Brass
Martin Baker

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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.

Reviews

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.

August 2013

The combination of Westminster Cathedral Choir and MacMillan is irresistable. We are drawn immediately into their complicity by the jaw-dropping Tu es Petrus...inevitably the sound of the Westminster choristers adds something unique and the building's response buoys up MacMillan's arching lines

July/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.

11th September 2013

This is a splendid disc. The music... is compelling and full of interest. The performances by Martin Baker and his extremely fine choir strike me as well-nigh definitive...This is a disc that shows yet again that James MacMillan is one of the most articulate and compelling of contemporary composers.

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