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Turnage Blood on the Floor
Ensemble Modern | John Scofield | Martin Robertson | Peter Erskine | Peter Rundel
The title comes from a painting by Francis Bacon (whose distinctive facial features are bizarrely recalled in the composer’s own),...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2006
Turnage Evening Songs; Scherzoid; When I Woke; Yet Another Set To
Mark-Anthony Turnage has enjoyed associations with the CBSO, BBC SO and now the London Philharmonic, each resulting in a wealth...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2005
In Sunlight - Pieces for Madeleine Mitchell
Andrew Ball | Madeleine Mitchell
A former leader of both the RCM’s Contemporary Ensemble and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s performing group the Fires of London,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2005
Macmillan Veni, veni, Emmanuel. Tryst
Colin Currie | Takuo Yuasa | Ulster Orchestra
Now coming up to 40, James MacMillan has achieved substantial and sustained success with music whose unambiguously serious social and...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1998
MacMillan Cantos Sagrados
Carl Jackson | Elysian Singers of London | Sam Laughton
James MacMillan’s music unashamedly wears its heart on its sleeve, testifying to the composer’s various passionate convictions. Most of these...
Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 9/2004
Set upon the Rood
Cambridge Gonville & Caius College Choir | Geoffrey Webber
Leaving other Oxbridge choirs to squabble over Tallis and Byrd, under director Geoffrey Webber the Choir of Gonville & Caius...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2017
MacMillan (The) Confession of Isobel Gowdie
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Martin Fröst | Osmo Vänskä
In 1992, when The Confession of Isobel Gowdie was two years old, the BBC SSO recorded it under their then...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2003
MACMILLAN Christmas Oratorio
This recording of James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio captures the work’s delayed UK premiere, originally scheduled (as the world premiere) for...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2023
MacMillan Veni, Veni Emmanuel & Other Percussion Works
Twice over at the Proms James Macmillan has had wild successes with long and demanding works, first in 1990 with...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1993
PROKOFIEV The Gambler
The vivid stories of Tolstoy’s exploits as a gambler provide real-life evidence of why gambling is such a recurrent theme...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: AW2013
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