MacMillan, James > Signum UK

A Song of Farewell: Music of Mourning & Consolation / Gabrieli Consort

1 CD / Signum UK / 2012-03-08

Works: Orlando Gibbons: Hymn; William Walton: A Litany; Robert White: Christe, qui lux es et dies; James MacMillan: A Child's Prayer, for treble, chorus & organ; John Sheppard: In manus tuas Domine no 1; Jo...
Conductors: McCreesh, Paul
Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort

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This is a concept album, a sequence of purgative music on the theme of death by a wide range of British composers from the...continue...
Recording information: Lady Chapel, Ely Cathedral (11/08/2009-11/10/2009)....continue...

Ghost Stories / The Smith Quartet

1 CD / Signum UK / 2007-09-01

Works: Tim Souster: Hambledon Hill, for string quartet; Michael Alcorn: The Old Woman of Beare, for string quartet; Gavin Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanic, for chamber group and multi-media; James MacMill...

Following on from the release of their critically acclaimed recording of Reich's Different Trains on Signum, Britain's leading contemporary string ensemble, The Smith Quartet, perform...continue...

Davies: One star, at last; Tavener, etc / Cleobury, Quinney

1 CD / Signum UK / 2005-11-04

Works: Bo Holten: Nowell sing we now; Steve Martland: Carols (3), for chorus; Carl Rütti: I Wonder as I Wander, for choir & organ; Judith Weir: Illuminare, Jerusalem; Judith Bingham: The Shepherd's Gif...
Performers: Adams-Barbaro, Jennifer; Bron, Eleanor; Feaviour, Margaret; Foulkes, Carolyn; Haslam, Micaela; Johnston, Robert; MacKenzie, Neil; Porter, Kim; Priestley-Smith, Pamela; Quinney, Robert
Conductors: Cleobury, Stephen
Ensemble: BBC Singers

This Christmas CD includes eight new carols several premiere recordings, and a selection of music serious and light-hearted, contemplative and joyful by some of the...continue...

Anthems for the 21st Century / Backhouse, Filsell, et al

1 CD / Signum UK / 2005-06-04

Works: Jonathan Dove: Bless the Lord, O my soul [vv. from Psalm 104], for chorus & organ; Jonathan Rathbone: Absalom, my son [2 Samuel 18, v. 33], for chorus & organ; Will Todd: Angel Song II, for chorus & ...
Performers: Angus, Andrew; Balzan, Nicola; Burges, Dan; Filsell, Jeremy [Keyboard]; Jackson, David; McWilliams, Fiona; Wood, Matthew
Conductors: Backhouse, Jeremy
Ensemble: Vasari Singers

"Will Todd's wordless Angel Song II...where a soothing melody intones over weirdly rippling aleatoric incantations. James MacMillan's Chosen, adding to his increasingly compelling body of...continue...

MacMillan: Cantos Sagrados, etc / Laughton, Elysian Singers

1 CD / Signum UK / 2004-06-04

Works: James MacMillan: Divo aloysio sacrum; The Gallant Weaver; A Child's Prayer; Seinte Mari moder milde; Tremunt videntes angeli; Cantos sagrados; Christus vincit; So Deep
Conductors: Laughton, Sam
Ensemble: Elysian Singers of London

"Though the Elysian Singers under Sam Laughton give robust yet tonally refined performances, there is much in this collection that lapses too easily into the...continue...