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Singing and playing are polished, focused and alert; but it’s the controlled intensity that's most striking here. …I can’t recall a performance that so forcefully contrasts the sweet lyricism... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Mar 2009
Catalogue No: 8570719
Label: Naxos
Length: 70 minutes

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MacMillan: 7 Last Words from the Cross

Work length47:14

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Dmitri Ensemble
Graham Ross

Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do

Track length6:08

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Woman, Behold They son!… Behold, Thy Mother!

Track length5:52

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Verily, I say unto, today thou shalt be with me in Paradise

Track length8:14

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Eli, Eli, lama sabachtani?

Track length7:08

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I thirst

Track length5:44

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It Is finished

Track length6:48

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Father, into Thy hands I commend my Spirit

Track length7:20

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MacMillan: Christus Vincit

Work length6:10

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Dmitri Ensemble
Graham Ross

MacMillan: Nemo te condemnavit

Work length5:16

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Dmitri Ensemble
Graham Ross

MacMillan: …Here in hiding… (Version for chorus)

Work length11:33

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Dmitri Ensemble
Graham Ross

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“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.”

“The flying Scot is writing music with as much fervour and ingenuity as anyone on the planet….his passion and energy seem inexhaustible… he is, paradoxically, the most powerful voice in British music today - by a mile. Though fused from a thousand diverse sacred and secular influences, his pieces are instantly recognisable, intellectually coherent, fizzing with ideas, gloriously coloured, and without a whiff of pretension or obfuscation.” The Times

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June 2009

Singing and playing are polished, focused and alert; but it’s the controlled intensity that's most striking here. …I can’t recall a performance that so forcefully contrasts the sweet lyricism of 'Verily, I say unto you' and the uncompromising non-tonal harshness of 'Eli, Eli, lama sabachtani?

September 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.

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