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Biography 2

Introduction 7English 7French 9German 11

Abbreviations 13

Works 14Stageworks 14FullOrchestra 16ChamberOrchestra 20SoloInstrumentandOrchestra 22VoicesandOrchestra 27ChorusandOrchestra 28EnsembleandChamberwithoutVoice(s) 30EnsembleandChamberwithVoice(s) 36Piano(s) 37Instrumental 40Vocal 43Choral(Accompanied) 45Choral(Unaccompanied) 52Band 60

Discography 61

Chronological List of Works 65

Boosey & Hawkes addresses 70

Coverphoto:EricRichmond/ArenaPAL

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HY 1959 Born16JulyatKilwinninginAyrshire,Scotland,sonofa

joinerandateacher(latersocialworker)

1963 ThefamilymovestoCumnockwhereheattendsthelocal RomanCatholicSchool

1969 Tuitioninpianoandtrumpetsoonleadstoearliest compositions,includingasmallpianopieceandsome orchestralmusic

1973 AttendssecondaryschoolatCumnockAcademywherehis musicalactivitiesembraceRenaissancechurchmusic. MeetsfuturewifeLynne.

1977 StudiesmusicatEdinburghUniversitywhereRitaMcAllister introduceshimtoStravinsky,Webern,Messiaenand20th centuryRussianmusic

1981 BeginspostgraduatecompositionstudiesatDurham UniversitywithJohnCasken,andthroughethnomusicology developsinterestingamelan

1983 ReturnstoAyrshireworkingasapart-timeteacher.Starts playingandsingingScottishandIrishfolkmusic.

1984 SetsThe TrystbyWilliamSoutarinthestyleofanoldScots ballad;themelodyistobeasourceofinspirationinmany futureworks

1986 TakesupalecturingpostatManchesterUniversity

1987 AwardeddoctoratefromDurhamUniversity.Hismusicis performedforthefirsttimeattheMusicaNovafestivalin Glasgow.

1988 ReturnstoScotlandandsettlesinGlasgow,heraldingan extremelycreativeperiod.Catholicismandpolitical concernsmeetinBúsqueda,aturningpointinthe composer’soutput.CollaborationswiththeScottish ChamberOrchestrabeginthrougheducationalprojects.

1989 Composer-in-ResidenceattheStMagnusFestival,Orkney, whereTrystispremieredbytheSCOunderPaulDaniel.

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HY Teacheshisfirstcomposers’courseonHoywithPeter

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1990 PromspremiereofThe Confession of Isobel Gowdiewith theBBCScottishSymphonyOrchestraunderJerzy Maksymiuk:itstelecastboostscomposer’sprofile throughoutUK.BúsquedaisperformedattheEdinburgh FestivalwithDianaRigg.FeaturedcomposeratMusica NovainGlasgowwhereThe Berserkingispremieredby PeterDonohoe.

1991 ConductsThe Confession of Isobel Gowdiewith PhilharmoniaOrchestrainLondonandissubsequently appointedVisitingComposer.Tuireadh,writteninresponse tothePiperAlphaoilrigdisaster,ispremieredatthe StMagnusFestivalbytheAllegriQuartetandJames Campbell.FeaturedcomposeratHuddersfield ContemporaryMusicFestival.RecordstheoldTryst songwithhisheroesoffolkmusic,theWhistlebinkies. AttendsperformanceofJohnClifford’splayInès de Castro andbeginsplanninganopera.

1992 TrysttoursEnglandontheContemporaryMusicNetwork. WritesVeni, Veni, EmmanuelforpercussionistEveyln GlenniewhichispremieredattheBBCProms.Launches thePhilharmonia’sMusic of Todayseriesofearlyevening concertsinLondon(until2002),developinghisinterestin musicbeyondthecentralEuropeanmainstream,including Celtic,NordicandFarEasterncomposers,andthose emergingfrombehindtheformerIronCurtain.

1993 FeaturedcomposerattheEdinburghFestivalwith18 worksperformed,includingpremiereoftrumpet concertoEpiclesis,adouble-billofBúsquedaandVisitatio Sepulchri,andSinfoniettaandThe Confession of Isobel GowdieconductedbyLeonardSlatkin.Recording ofVeni, Veni, EmmanuellaunchesseriesonBMG,and KochSchwanndiscofThe Confession of Isobel Gowdie winsGramophoneContemporaryMusicRecordoftheYear Award.

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HY 1994 TravelstohearGermanpremiereofVeni, Veni, Emmanuel

inBerlin,andfirstUSperformancesbyNational SymphonyinWashingtonunderMstislavRostropovichand byClevelandOrchestra.Onthestrengthofthework, RostropovichasksMacMillantowritetwoscores: acelloconcertoforhimtoplayandasymphonyto conduct.Seven Last Words from the Crosstelevised nightlythroughHolyWeekonBBCTV,andpremiered completeinGlasgow.TheovertureBritanniareceivesover 30performancesbyUKorchestrasinthe1994/95season.

1995 NorthAmericanperformancesofVeni, Veni, Emmanuel withEvelynGlennieduring1995/96includeNewYork Philharmonic(Slatkin),Boston(Ozawa),Milwaukee (Elder),Toronto(Saraste),Philadelphia(AndrewDavis), Detroit(Järvi),StLouis(Alsop),LosAngeles(Gershon), plusperformancesinNetherlands,France,Sweden, Denmark,Czechoslovakia,JapanandAustralia.

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HY 1996 PremieresofThe World’s Ransoming,thefirstofatriptych

ofcommissionsfromtheLondonSymphonyOrchestra, andInès de CastrobyScottishOperaattheEdinburgh Festival.Theoperaisapublicsuccess,butproves controversialforitsblendingoftraditionalnarrativestructure withpostmodernmusicalstyle.Rostropovichissoloistin theCello Concerto,withtheLSOconductedbySirColin Davis.

1997 Veni, Veni, Emmanuelreaches100thperformanceinfive yearssinceitspremiere.CelebratesanniversariesofSt NinianandStColumbawithNinianforclarinetistJohn Cushing,andÍ (A Meditation on Iona).Featuredcomposer atBergenFestival.PremiereofSymphony: ‘Vigil’, conductedbyRostropovich,completestheLSO’sTriduum series.20worksperformedatRaising Sparksfestivalin London,namedaftersongcycleforJeanRigbyandNash Ensemble.

1998 PremieresofWhy is this night different?byMaggini Quartet,andorchestralversionofCantos Sagrados. JapanesepremiereofSymphony: ‘Vigil’byNHKSymphony underTadaakiOtaka.

1999 TriduumlaunchesnewrecordingseriesonBIS,andis performedcompleteatEdinburghFestival.Quickening, settingpoemsofbirthandrebirthbyMichaelSymmons Roberts,premieredatBBCPromsbyTheHilliardEnsemble withBBCSymphonyOrchestraandChorusconductedby AndrewDavis.FirstperformancesofSymphony No.2by SCO.

2000 EvelynGlenniegives200thperformanceofVeni, Veni, Emmanuel:theworkhasjoinedtherepertoireof80 orchestrasin27countries.Parthenogenesiscomposed followingworkshopswithRowanWilliamsandMichael SymmonsRoberts.AppointedComposer/Conductorwith theBBCPhilharmonicinManchester,leadingtonew recordingseriesonChandos.

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HY 2001 Hyperiondiscofchoralworks,includingnewMass,marks

MacMillanasaleadingchoralcomposer.Conducting activitiesincreasing,including2001/02concertswith SydneySymphonyOrchestra,ResidentieOrkestand RotterdamPhilharmonic.

2002 TrystchoreographedbyChristopherWeeldonatRoyal BalletCoventGarden.Seriesofchoralperformancesin PhiladelphiaincludesUSpremiereofQuickening.South BankShowfeatureonITV,directedbyRobertBee.

2003 FirstperformancesofSymphony No.3: ‘Silence’,inspired bythebookbyShusakuEndo,inTokyo,Londonand Amsterdam.ColinCurriegives300thperformanceof Veni, Veni, Emmanuel.A Scotch Bestiarycommissionedto inaugurateneworganatWaltDisneyHallandpremieredby WayneMarshallandLosAngelesPhilharmonicconducted byEsa-PekkaSalonen.

2004 ConductspremiereatNewYorkCityBalletofPiano Concerto No.2,choreographedbyChristopherWheeldon asShambards.OtherconductingengagementsinJapan, Australia,Netherlands,Sweden,SpainandSwitzerland. AwardedaCBE.

2005 MajorretrospectivepresentedbyBBCSymphony OrchestraatBarbicaninLondon,with27worksperformed. Embarksonsecondfull-lengthopera,The Sacrifice,to alibrettobyMichaelSymmonsRoberts,commissionedby WelshNationalOpera.

2006 ConductsQuickeninginNewZealandandSeven Last WordsattheConcertgebouwinAmsterdam.First performancesofSun-DogsatIndianaUniversity,Three ChoirsFestival,andSoundstreamsCanada.FeaturesatSt MagnusandCheltenhamFestivals.

2007 The SacrificeispremieredinCardiff,tourstosevencities intheUK,andwinstheRoyalPhilharmonicSocietyAward foroperaandmusictheatre.

2008 SirColinDavisconductspremiereofSt John Passionwith LondonSymphonyOrchestraandChorus.

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beginningofthe1990sitwasclearthiswasacomposerwhohadcasthisnetwideintermsofinfluences:fromCelticfolkmusictothehard-edgedmodernismofHarrisonBirtwistle;fromtheradicallyexperimentalmysticismofOlivierMessiaentothedarklyhumanistsymphonicnarrativesofDmitriShostakovich.Ofcoursethereweresomewhogrumbledabout‘eclecticism’;buttomanyotherswhowerestirredbysuchearlymasterpiecesastheorchestralThe Confession of Isobel Gowdie(1990)andthepercussionconcertoVeni, Veni, Emmanuel(1992),itwasclearthatthiswasacomposerwhoseinclusivenesswasnatural,unforced–asmuchareflectionofacoherentvisionasanynarrowideology.

Thekeywordhereis‘catholic’,initsoriginalsenseof‘universal’,‘all-inclusive’.MacMillanisRomanCatholicbybirth,andtodayhisfaithremainscentraltohislife.HisearlyinvolvementwithMarxismwasstronglycolouredbyLatinAmericanLiberationTheology,anditsimpactcanstillbesensedinhisworktoday,rightuptohislatestoperaThe Sacrifice(2005-06).AtthesametimeMacMillaniskeenlyawareofthedivisionspartisanreligiousthinkingcancause.WhilehisworksoftendrawonCatholicliturgyandchantfortheirbasicformalandmelodicmaterial,hecanalsoincludeelementsfromtheJewishPassoverriteinhissecondstringquartet,Why is this night different?(1998),orinstrumentalcoloursassociatedwiththeJapaneseShintoreligioninSymphony No.3: ‘Silence’(2003).

Theresultismusicthatembracesastartlingvarietyofmusicalstyles.Dense,thornyatonaltexturescansuddenlyyieldtosoaringtonalmelodies,reminiscentofWagner(anothercrucialearlyinfluence).Jagged,complex,muscularrhythmsmaysimilarlymeltintofree-floatingimprovisatorylyricism,orfine-spunpolyphonyrecallingBachandtheRenaissancechurchcomposers.Thrillinglygarishorabrasivecolourssitalongsidedelicate,fragilepatternsorvelvetywarmth.Hymntunes,folklamentsandbrashmarchesfloatasconflictinglayersinvibrantmusicaltapestries.OnemayberemindedoftheteemingorchestralkaleidoscopesofthepioneeringAmericancomposerCharlesIves,ortheRussian‘polystylist’AlfredSchnittke.

WhatdrawsallthistogetherisMacMillan’sdeeplyingrainedfeelingformusicalstorytelling.Todaygrandnarrativesareoftenderidedasoutdated,irrelevant.MacMillanhoweverhasprovedthroughworkslikeIsobel Gowdie,Veni, Veni, Emmanuelandthemassiveorchestral

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trilogyTriduum(1995-97)thatthiskindofspiritualjourneyinmusic,asexemplifiedbyBeethoveninhissymphoniesandBachinhisgreat‘Passions’,canberecreatedintermswhichspeakbothtosophisticatedmusicalintelligencesandordinarymusiclovers–MacMillan’smorerecentlarge-scaleworksincludehisownverypersonalresponsetotheclassicSt John Passionnarrative.Hischoral-orchestralQuickening(1998)broughtapotentreminderthatcompellingcontemporarymusiccanbeinspiredbythemostcommonhumanexperiences:inthiscasetheconceptionandbirthofachild.Inanagewhenpopulismandmodernismseemlikeirreconcilablepoles,JamesMacMillan’smusiccontinuestoholdoutthehopeofintegration,thehealingofpainfuldivisions,oftranscendence.

© Stephen Johnson, 2008 Writer and broadcaster, author of books on Bruckner (Faber), Wagner and Mahler (Naxos), and regular presenter on BBC Radio 3’s DiscoveringMusic.

Tryst in the choreography by Christopher Wheeldon, with Darcey Bussell and Jonathan Cope at the Royal Ballet Covent Garden, London (2002)

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musicale,audébutdesannées1990,l’éventailélargid’influencesrassembléparcecompositeurressortitavecévidence:delamusiquetraditionnellecelteaumodernismetranchédeHarrisonBirtwistle,dumysticismeradicald’OlivierMessiaenàlanarrationsymphoniquesombrementhumanistedeDimitriChostakovitch.Biensûr,certainsdénoncèrentson«éclectisme»maispourbeaucoupd’autres,émuspardeschefs-d’œuvreprécocestelsqueThe Confession of Isobel Gowdiepourorchestre(1990)etleconcertopourpercussionVeni, Veni, Emmanuel(1992),cetassemblagenatureletspontanéchezluireflétaitunevisionaussicohérentequetouteautredémarcheplusétroitementdélimitée.

Lemot-clédesonœuvreest«catholique»,ausenspremierd’universeletd’œcuménique.MacMillanestnédansunmilieucatholiqueetsafoidemeureunepartimportantedesavie.SonengagementdejeunessedanslemouvementmarxisteseteintafortementdelaThéologiedelaLibérationsud-américainedontonressent,aujourd’huiencore,l’impactsursonœuvre,commeentémoignesondernieropéraThe Sacrifice(2005-2006).MacMillanestcependanttrèsconscientdesdivisionscauséesparlareligionpartisane.Ilempruntesouventlesstructuresformellesetlesmélodiesdelaliturgiecatholiqueetduplain-chantdanssesœuvres,maisaaussiincorporédesélémentsrituelsdelaPâquejuivedanssondeuxièmequatuoràcordes,Why is this night different ?(1998)etdescolorisinstrumentauxreliésaushintoïsmejaponaisdansSymphony No3 : “Silence”(2003).

Lamusiquequienrésulteembrasseuneétonnantediversitédestylesmusicaux.DestexturesatonalesdensesetarduesdébouchenttoutàcoupsurdesenvoléesdemélodiestonalesrappelantWagner(autreinfluenceessentielle),desrythmesimbriqués,complexesettrapussefondent,demême,dansunlyrismedéliéetcommeimproviséoudansunepolyphoniefinementtisséerappelantBachetlesmaîtresdelamusiquesacréedelaRenaissance,dessonoritéscriardesetdécapantesvoisinentavecdesmotifsdélicatsetfragilesoudeseffusionssoyeuses.Thèmesdecantiques,complaintestraditionnellesetmarchesbruyantesformentlesniveauxcontrastésd’unetapisseriemusicalevibrante,quirappellelefourmillementdeskaléidoscopesorchestrauxdel’Américainavant-gardisteCharlesIvesoule«polystylisme»duRusseAlfredSchnittke.

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L’élémentrelianttoutescescomposantesestconstituéparlesensprofondémentenracinédeMacMillanpourlanarrationmusicale.Lesgrandrécitssontaujourd’huisouventtournésendérisionetconsidérésdémodésoudéplacés,orMacMillanaprouvépardesœuvrestellesqueIsobel GowdieetVeni, Veni, Emmanuel,ainsiqueparsamonumentaletrilogieorchestraleTriduum(1995-1997),quelesparcoursspirituelsmusicauxdecettesorte,àl’imagedeceuxdeBeethovendanssessymphoniesetdeBachdanssesgrandesPassions,peuventêtrerecréésendestermesaccessiblesautantauxconnaisseursraffinésdel’artmusicalqu’auxsimplesmélomanes–parmilesrécentesœuvresd’enverguredeMacMillanfiguresavisiontrèspersonnelledurécitdelaPassion selon Saint Jean.SonœuvreorchestraleetchoraleQuickening(1998)rappelaavecforcequ’unepartitioncontemporaineabstrusepeuts’inspirerdel’expériencelaplushumaine:icilaconceptionetlanaissanced’unenfant.Auneépoqueoùpopularitéetmodernités’opposent,telsdeuxpôlesirréconciliables,lamusiquedeJamesMacMillannecessed’offrirunespoird’intégration,desoulagementdespeinesduesauxdivisionsetdetranscendance.

© Stephen Johnson, 2008 Ecrivain et homme de radio, auteur d’ouvrages sur Bruckner (Faber), Wagner et Mahler (Naxos) et présentateur régulier de l’émission DiscoveringMusic de BBC Radio 3.

TheSacrifice at Welsh National Opera, with Lisa Milne and Leigh Melrose, Cardiff (2007)

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GodersamtigerWärme.Kirchenlieder,traditionelleKlagegesängeodermuntereMärschebildengegeneinanderstrebendeSchichteninpulsierendenKlangteppichen.ZuweilenfühltmansichandieüberfließendenorchestralenKaleidoskopedeswegweisendenamerikanischenKomponistenCharlesIvesoderandenrussischen„Polystilisten“AlfredSchnittkeerinnert.ZusammengehaltenwirdalldiesvonMacMillanstiefverwurzeltemGefühlfürdasErzählenvonGeschichteninMusik.HeutzutagebelächeltmangroßeErzählungenoftalsveraltetoderirrelevant.DurchWerkewieIsobel Gowdie,Veni, Veni, EmmanueloderdieimposanteOrchestertrilogieTriduum(1995–97)hatMacMillanjedochbewiesen,dassdieseArtspirituellerReiseinMusik,wiesieschonBeethoveninseinenSymphonienundBachinseinengroßenPassionenvorgeführthaben,ineinerWeisewiedererstehenkann,diesowohlKenneralsauchLiebhaberderMusikanspricht–unterMacMillansgrößerangelegtenWerkenneuerenDatumsfindetsicheineeigeneJohannespassionalssehrpersönlicheDarstellungdieserklassischenGeschichte.Quickening(1998)fürChorundOrchesterbrachteaufnachhaltigeWeiseinErinnerung,dassfesselndeGegenwartsmusikihreInspirationausgrundlegendenmenschlichenErfahrungenbeziehenkann:indiesemFallderZeugungundGeburteinesKindes.IneinerZeit,inderPopulismusundModernismusunvereinbarePolezuseinscheinen,hältJamesMacMillansMusikdieHoffnungaufeinZusammenwachsenaufrecht,aufdieHeilungschmerzlicherTrennungen,aufTranszendenz.© Stephen Johnson, 2008Autor und Rundfunkmoderator, Verfasser von Büchern über Bruckner (Faber), Wagner und Mahler (Naxos) und regelmäßiger Moderator bei DiscoveringMusic auf BBC Radio 3.

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Woodwind picc piccolo fl flute afl altoflute ob oboe corA corAnglais(Englishhorn) cl clarinet(inAorBb) bcl bassclarinet Ebcl clarinetinEb dbcl doublebassclarinet ssax sopranosaxophone bn bassoon dbn doublebassoonor contrabassoon

Brass hn horn tpt trumpet trbn trombone btrbn basstrombone ttrbn tenortrombone

Percussion ant.cyms antiquecymbals BD bassdrum bl block cel celesta Chin Chinese crot crotales cym cymbal dr drum gliss glissando glsp glockenspiel perc percussion SD snaredrumsusp.cym suspendedcymbal(single) tamb bambourine t.bells tubularbells tam-t tam-tam TD tenordrum tgl triangle timp timpani tom-t tom-toms

Allotherscoringsarelistedinfull,orareacombinationoftheabove

Standardorderofinstrumentation:fl.ob.cl.bn—hn.tpt.trbn.tuba—perc—other—vlnI.vlnII.vla.vlc.db

Materialonsaleisindicatedaftereachworkentry

Wherenopartsarelistedonsale,theworkisavailableforrental

Percussion (continued) tpl.bl templeblock(s) vib vibraphone wdbl woodblock(s) xyl xylophone

Strings vln violin vla viola vlc cello db doublebassor contrabass

Keyboards cel celesta org organ pft piano synth synthesiser

Voices S soprano M mezzo-soprano A alto T tenor Bar baritone BBar bassbaritone B bass

Languages E English L Latin

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S Búsqueda1988 29minMusicTheatreworkforspeaker,actors,sopranoandensembleText:TextfromLatinMassandPoemsbytheArgentinianMothersoftheDisappeared,translatedbyGilbertMarkusO.P.(L-E)

8actors,3sopranos,speaker1(=afl).0.3(III=bcl).0—0.3.3(III=ttrbn/btrbn).0—perc(2):I=vib/2tam-t/drumkit/wdbl/2springcoils/sleighbells;II=lgtam-t/drumkit/maracas/wdbl/2springcoils/sleighbells/claves—2harps—2vlc.db

"...music of shattering directness, clearly defined emotion and angry idealism... It is hard to think of another contemporary figure who is so lyrical and dramatic, and yet so thoroughly in command of his material." (The Independent)

World Premiere: 06 Dec 1988Queen'sHall,Edinburgh,UKJohnShedden,speaker;ECATEnsembleConductor:JamesMacMillan

Inés de Castro1991-95 2hr4minanoperaintwoactsText:Librettoaftertheplay'InésdeCastro'byJohnClifford(E)

S,2M,T,BBar,B;chorus2(II=picc).2(II=corA).2(II=Ebcl,bcl).2(II=dbn)—4.3.3.1—timp.perc(4):BD/2tam-t(bowed)/2cowbells/2wdbl/logdr/vib(bowed)/crot/t.bells/2lghandbells/sizzlecym/marktree/clashcyms/gong/susp.cym/thundersheetwithsuperball/fingercyms/anvil/xyl/flexatone/SD/2bongos/4tom-t/5tpl.bl/glsp/tgl/basslion'sroar/metalsheetorplate—harp—pft(=cel)—strings

"...a classic example of the fusion of a brilliant musical score with gut wrenching theatre... It is gripping from start to finish... Underpinning it all is music that has everything - floating lyricism, overpowering emotion, and a fundamental Wagnerian concept of encapsulating and driving the narrative." (The Scotsman)

"InésdeCastro is a complex, ambitious work, a modern attempt at grand opera in the tradition of Verdi and Mussorgsky... Mr MacMillan is a serious gifted composer with a public that cares deeply about his work - the first such creature in Britain since the death of Benjamin Britten." (The Wall Street Journal)

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World Premiere: 23 Aug 1996EdinburghFestival,UKJonathanMoore,director;HelenField/JeffreyLawton/StaffordDean/ScottishOperaConductor:RichardArmstrong

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S Parthenogenesis2000 50minScenaforsoprano,baritone,actressandchamberensembleText:LibrettobyMichaelSymmonsRoberts(E)

1.1.1(=bcl).dbn—2.0.0.0—perc(1):glsp/vib/tunedgongs/2wdbl/5tom-t/2bongos/SD/BD/susp.cym/sizzlecym/2tam-t(sm,lg)—harp—pft—strings(1.1.1.1.1orstringorch)—2tapes

"...rhapsodically lyrical music, soaring phrases floridly decorated at their end, together with flawlessly atmospheric orchestration and lacerating rhythmic drive..." (Glasgow Herald)

World Premiere: 12 Sep 2000CornExchange,Cambridge,UKLisaMilne/ChristopherPurves;JohnFulljames,dir;BrittenSinfoniaConductor:JamesMacMillan

The Sacrifice2005-06 2hr10minOperainthreeactsText:LibrettobyMichaelSymmonsRoberts,basedonastoryfromtheMabinogion(E)

Mainroles:2S,T,2Bar;'TheBirds'ofRhiannon:2S,M;Dressers:2S,M;pluschorus('TheBirds'andDressersmaybesungbysamethreesingers)2(I,II=picc).2(II=corA).2(II=bcl).2(II=dbn)—4.3.3.1—timp.perc(3):glsp/vib/tgl/whistle/rainstick/whip/tamb/bodhrán/BD/2Pekinggongs/t.bells/5wdbl(graded)/anvil/SD/susp.cym/crot/tunedgongs/guiro/vibraslap/metalbar/TD/crashcyms/tam-t—harp—strings

"The Sacrifice offers as many thrills as Tosca, as much agony as PeterGrimes, more violence than Elektra and Salome combined and a suspense quotient to rival LadyMacbethofMtsensk. MacMillan's expertly crafted music has easy-to-identify theme tunes and gut-wrenching climaxes, with a closing tableau of which Verdi himself would have been proud..." (Financial Times)

"...a score of real brilliance... His trump card is that he knows how to write for the voice, and – no less vital – how to accompany it; his ear for balance and texture is superb, and there are many pages in TheSacrifice that were plainly being sung with delight – I'm thinking of the passionate Act II duet for the daughter and her discarded lover, and the delicately ornate soprano aria at the very end, a gem..." (The Independent)

"...there are wonderful passages: a ravishing love duet underpinned by gorgeously folksy orchestration; Verdi-like declamations for the warlords; a choral threnody that summons the anguished modes of Eastern Europe to haunting effect; and a breathtakingly sonorous choral finale." (The Times)

World Premiere: 22 Sep 2007WalesMillenniumCentre,Cardiff,UKKatieMitchell,director;WelshNationalOperaConductor:JamesMacMillan

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S Visitatio Sepulchri1992-93 40minfor7singersandchamberorchestraseeworksforVoices and Orchestra

The Birds of Rhiannon2001 24minTone-poemfororchestrawithoptionalchorus(SATB)Text:MichaelSymmonsRoberts(E)

2.picc.2.corA.2.bcl.dbcl.ssax.2.dbn—4.3.3.1—timp.perc(4):glsp/tunedgongs/t.bells/6lowbells/vib/marimba/3wdbl(graded)/6tpl.bl/3cowbells/guiro/whip/rainstick/3metalsheets(sm,med,lg)/thundersheet/bongos/bodhrán/brakedr/SD/TD/BD/2flexatones/susp.cym/watergongs(sm,lg)/2gliss.gongs/tam-t—harp—strings

"...boldly coloured music, dramatic confrontations of ideas, a powerful surge of momentum, and instrumental lines that have an independent life but gel as a cohesive texture... MacMillan shares with Rimsky a virtuosity in defining and combining instrumental timbres." (Daily Telegraph)

World Premiere: 26 Jul 2001RoyalAlbertHall,London,UKTheSixteen;BBCPhilharmonicConductor:JamesMacMillan

Britannia1994 14minfororchestra3(III=picc).3(III=corA).3(III=bcl).2.dbn—4.3.3.1—timp.perc(3):bodhránortambour/tgl/flexatone/duckcall/vib/lgtam-t;2wdbl/2cowbells/snaredrum/coconutshells/5tom-t;cyms/BD/whip/klaxon/duckcall/referee'swhistle/autohorn—harp—strings

"...a Charles Ivesian spree in which bits of Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten and other British icons are irreverently and skilfully insinuated into a bustling, elaborate texture fond of reverting into a kind of Celtic reflectiveness. It was a little like Brahms's AcademicFestivalOverture in reverse..." (Sunday Times)

World Premiere: 21 Sep 1994BarbicanHall,London,UKLondonSymphonyOrchestraConductor:MichaelTilsonThomas

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A The Confession of Isobel Gowdie1990 26minfororchestra2(II=picc).2(II=corA).2(II=bcl).2(II=dbn)—4.3.3.1—timp.perc(2):2congas(high,low)/2timbales(high,low)/xyl/3tam-t(sm/med/lg)/anvil/t.bells/SD/2congas(high/low)/vib/BD/v.lgtam-t—strings

"...a stirringly powerful work which grows implacably from a rapt modal string threnody through mounting violence to the re-emergence and transformation of the opening lament." (Gramophone)

"MacMillan brilliantly demonstrated in IsobelGowdie that accessibility need not necessarily involve compromise... all its various musical elements - be they Scottish folktune, Gregorian chant or pure MacMillan - are by no means merely illustrative but emanate from a powerful, all-embracing and unifying emotional impulse." (Daily Telegraph)

9790060113376FullScore

World Premiere: 22 Aug 1990RoyalAlbertHall,London,UKBBCScottishSymphonyOrchestraConductor:JerzyMaksymiuk

Exsultet (version for symphonic brass)1998, arr.2000 8minfororchestralbrassandpercussion4hn.3tpt.3trbn.tuba—timp.perc(1/2):SD/bell/lgtam-t/smtam-t(opt)—org(opt)

World premiere of version: 30 Sep 2000BridgewaterHall,Manchester,UKBBCPhilharmonicConductor:JamesMacMillan

Into the Ferment1988 25minforensembleandorchestraensemble:1(=picc).1.1.1—1.1.1.0—perc(1):tam-t/5tpl.bl/vib/BD/3susp.cym/5tom-t/SD—harp—strings(1.1.1.1.1);orchestra:2(II=picc).2.2.2—4.2.3.1—timp.perc:BD/SD/glsp/tgl/susp.cym—strings

World Premiere: 19 Dec 1988MagnumCentre,Irvine,UKScottishChamberOrchestra/AyrSchoolsOrchestraConductor:JamesMacMillan

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A The Sacrifice: Three Interludes2005-06 15minfororchestra2(I,II=picc).2(II=corA).2(II=bcl).1.dbn—4.3.3.1—timp.perc(3):glsp/vib/tamb/BD/t.bells/wdbl/SD/susp.cym/crot/tunedgongs/guiro/vibraslap/tam-t—harp—strings

World Premiere: 22 feb 2008BridgewaterHall,Manchester,UKBBCPhilharmonicConductor:JamesMacMillan

Sinfonietta1991 19minfororchestraorchamberorchestraseeworksforChamber Orchestra

Stomp (with Fate and Elvira)2006 6minconcertoverturefororchestra

2.2.2.2—4.3.3.1—timp.perc(2):SD/susp.cym/hi-hat/bodhrán/spoons(orothersimilarfolk-likeinstrument)—strings

"Imagine Mozart and Tchaikovsky in kilts, thrown into the middle of a highland fling." (Financial Times)

"...an irreverent deconstruction of the Tchaikovsky 4th symphony and Mozart’s Elvira Madigan Piano Concerto, K467... Stomp went through all sorts of wacky distortions before being whisked, ceilidh-style, into a punch-drunk jig of delight." (The Times)

World Premiere: 03 Mar 2007BarbicanCentre,London,UKLondonSymphonyOrchestraConductor:ColinDavis

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A Symphony No.3: ‘Silence’2002 36minfororchestra3(III=afl,picc).2.corA.2.bcl.dbcl.2.dbn—4.3.3.1—timp.perc(4):marimba/tunedgongs/5tpl.bl/SD/susp.cym/glsp/steeldrums/BD/crot/t.bells/3heavymetalbars/2congas/2timbales/medtam-t/cencerros(tunedcowbells)/vib/lgtam-t/thundersheet—harp—pft—strings

"MacMillan's masterful orchestral imagination is Mahlerian in its huge but translucent tuttis and in its chamber-music-like intimacy. But the voice is his own, and the sounds are wonderfully beguiling." (Sunday Times)

World Premiere: 17 Apr 2003NHKHall,Tokyo,JapanNHKSymphonyOrchestraConductor:CharlesDutoit

Symphony: ‘Vigil’1997 53min(thirdpartoftheorchestraltriptychTriduum)3(III=picc).2.corA.2.bcl.2.dbn—4.3.3.1—timp.perc(3):lgsusp.cym/sizzlecym/wdbl/t.bells/woodencube/glsp/tam-t/cencerros/thundersheet/lgpieceofmetal/tgl/vib/tunedgongs/BD/5tpl.bl/2congas/2timbales/SD/susp.cym/antiquecym/xyl/5tom-t—harp—pft(=cel)—strings—separatebrassquintet(1.2.1.1)

"...a breathtaking piece, potent, haunting and magnetic, and with a profound inner beauty which speaks of music conceived by the soul... the whole symphony seems to be a natural progression from its early dark murmurings towards the incandescence of the finale." (Daily Telegraph)

"...it has the feel of a real symphony: a large-scale, organically developing canvas, a massive emotional journey that travels from darkness into light, from bleak reality into transcendence." (Glasgow Herald)

World Premiere: 28 Sep 1997Barbican,London,UKLondonSymphonyOrchestraConductor:MstislavRostropovich

Triduum1995-97 1hr41minOrchestraltriptychcomprisingTheWorld’sRansoming,CelloConcertoandSymphony:‘Vigil’seeindividualworksforscorings

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The World’s Ransoming1995-96 21min(firstpartoftheorchestraltriptychTriduum)fororchestra,withobbligatocoranglais2(I,II=picc).1.corA(obbligato).2(II=bcl).2(II=dbn)—4.2.3.0—timp.perc(1):crot/t.bells/2go-gobells/2tpl.bl/2bongos/lgtam-t/smtam-t(orgong)/5tom-t/SD/lgsizzlecym/lgsplashcym/lgplywoodcube—strings

"An orderly meditation on Maundy Thursday, of considerable breadth and depth... MacMillan's orchestral skill, and his art of construction, ensure that it pleases the ear and rewards the attention." (Financial Times)

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World Premiere: 11 Jul 1996Barbican,London,UKChristinePendrill,coranglais;LondonSymphonyOrchestraConductor:KentNagano

Cumnock Fair1999 12minforpianosextet,orstringorchestraandpianopft—stringquintetorstringorchestra(max:8.6.4.4.2)

World Premiere: 23 Mar 1999CumnockAcademy,Ayrshire,UKmusiciansfromScottishChamberOrchestra

A Deep but Dazzling Darkness2001-02 22minforsoloviolin,ensembleandtapeseeworksforSoloInstrumentandOrchestra

The Exorcism of Rio Sumpúl1989 25minforchamberorchestraormixedensembleseeworksforEnsemble and Chamber without Voice(s)

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A Í (A Meditation on Iona)1996 17minforstringsandpercussionperc(1):t.bells/steelpans/lgthundersheet—strings

"Lamenting violins; eruptive, angular drumming; shivering bells: here was a piece with a strong if mysterious sense of place." (The Times)

World Premiere: 21 feb 1997CityHall,Glasgow,UKScottishChamberOrchestraConductor:JosephSwensen

Kiss on Woodarranged by Ingvar Karkoff for cello and string orchestra

2008 9minseeworksforSoloInstrumentandOrchestra

Memoire imperiale1993 5minAvariationonGeneralJohnReid'sMarch'GarbofGaul'(Marchofthe42ndorOldHighlandRegiment)2.1.corA.1.bcl.1.dbn—2.2.0.0—timp.perc:SD—strings

World Premiere: 13 feb 1994EdinburghUniversity,Edinburgh,UKScottishChamberOrchestraConductor:MatthiasBamert

Sinfonietta1991 19minfororchestraorchamberorchestraafl(=picc).corA.Ebcl(=bcl).ssax.dbn—1.picctpt.1.1—perc(2):tgl/vib/SD/wdbl/tam-t/glsp/2cowbells/2congas/BD/susp.cym/t.bells/2tom-t/anvil/lgtam-t/lgsizzlecym—harp—pft—strings(min:6.6.4.4.2or1.1.1.1.1)

"...a 20-minute arch, beginning with chant-like melodies before erupting with Varèse-like violence into a grotesque march, which veers in and out of focus before subsiding into the quietude of the opening again." (Financial Times)

World Premiere: 14 May 1992QueenElizabethHall,London,UKLondonSinfoniettaConductor:MartynBrabbins

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Symphony No.21999 24minforchamberorchestra2(II=picc).2(II=corA).2(II=bcl).1.dbn—2.2.0.0—perc(2):glsp/vib/t.bells/bell-tree/bongo/SD/BD/cyms/tam-t—harp—strings

"This is a brilliantly written chamber-orchestral score... there is clearly more to MacMillan's Second than a coherent, thematically integrated three-movement construction... behind it all, as with the PianoSonataon which it is based, there is the harsh Scottish winter landscape." (The Times)

World Premiere: 02 Dec 1999TownHall,Ayr,UKScottishChamberOrchestra;Conductor:JamesMacMillan

Tryst1989 30minfororchestra2(II=picc).2(II=corA).2(II=bcl).2(II=dbn)—2.2.0.0—timp(=windchimes/belltree)—strings

"This piece has a powerful sense of propulsion, its potency resulting from the insistent way he works round, manipulates and develops an idea...to produce music of compelling cumulative energy." (Daily Telegraph)

World Premiere: 17 Jun 1989Kirkwall,Orkney,UKScottishChamberOrchestra;Conductor:PaulDaniel

The Berserking1990 33minConcertoforpianoandorchestra2.picc.3(III=corA).3(III=bcl).2.dbn—4.3.2.Btrbn.1—timp.perc(3):2timbales(high/low)/glsp/lgtam-t/marktree/crot/tom-t(high)/xyl/snaredr(high);snaredr(med)/anvil/vib/tom-t(low);v.lgBD/loudclaves/t.bells/ant.cym/snaredr(low)—cel—harp—strings(min:14.12.10.8.8)

"The violent energy of the outer movements, full of Stravinskian rhythms and brutal explosions of soloist and orchestra, encloses a lyrical core tinged with Celtic folksong." (BBC Music Magazine)

97900601033222PianoScore(4Hands)

World Premiere: 22 Sep 1990MusicaNova,Glasgow,UKPeterDonohoe,piano;ScottishNationalOrchestraConductor:MatthiasBamert

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A Cello Concerto1996 41min(secondpartoftheorchestraltriptychTriduum)2(II=picc).2.2(II=Ebcl,bcl).1.dbn—4.3.3.1—timp.perc(3):glsp/xyl/vib/cyms/susp.cym/sizzlecym/BD/SD/lgtam-t/smtam-t/tunedgongs/3bongos/lgethundersheet/metalbar/2lgplasticjamblocks/lgplywoodcube—pft(=cel)—harp—strings

"With customary energy, MacMillan manipulates his material and uses splashes of orchestral colouring to create fluctuating moods — celestial or violently propulsive... The concerto has reasoning, intensity and beauty." (Daily Telegraph)


9790060107047Cello,PianoScore

World Premiere: 03 Oct 1996Barbican,London,UKMstislavRostropovich,cello;LondonSymphonyOrchestraConductor:ColinDavis

A Deep but Dazzling Darkness2001-02 22minforsoloviolin,ensembleandtape1(=picc).afl.1.1.dbcl.0—1.2.1.1—perc(2):I=vib/5cowbells/5tpl.bl/2bongos/BD/4gliss.gongs;II=tunedgongs/tamb/SD/pedalBD/hi-hat/tam-t/watergong—harp—2pft*(II=cel)—2vln.vla.vlc.db—tape(CD)*Piano2istunedaquarter-toneabovethenorm*alternativeversion:withastringsection(max:8.6.4.4.2)

"...tremendously dramatic, even by the standards of a composer whose mode of expression rarely falls short of volcanic... the work's subtext is music's power to comfort in times of darkness or conflict..." (The Times)

World Premiere: 27 Mar 2003St.Lukes,London,UKGordanNikolitch,violin;LondonSymphonyOrchestraConductor:JamesMacMillan

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Epiclesis1993, rev.1998 25minConcertofortrumpetandorchestra3(III=picc).2.corA.3(III=bcl).2.dbn—6.3.3.1—timp.perc(4):marimba/thundersheet/bowlgong/2tam-t(lg&sm,withbows)/4gamelangongs/2vib(bowed)/crot/sanctusbells/4cowbells/6tom-t/2bongos/glsp/cyms/anvil/cencerros(chromaticcowbells)/t.bells/BD/belltree/4wdbl/tgl/SD—strings(min14.12.10.8.8)offstage:2antiphonaltpt

"...MacMillan writes brilliantly for brass. The trumpet is not used as a bravura expressionist, more as a virtuoso communicator. The writing has a jazz-like conversational flow..." (The Scotsman)


World Premiere: 28 Aug 1993UsherHall,Edinburgh,UKJohnWallace,trumpet;PhilharmoniaOrchestraConductor:LeonardSlatkin

From Ayrshire2005 8minforviolinandorchestraorpiano0.0.0.0—2.0.0.0—timp.perc:BD/crot/belltree/whip—harp—strings

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World Premiere: 23 Mar 2007SchusterCenter,Dayton,USANiccolaBenedetti,violin;DaytonPhilharmonicOrchestraConductor:CarlosMiguelPrieto

Kiss on Woodarranged by Ingvar Karkoff for cello and string orchestra

2008 9minstringorchestra

World premiere of version: 14 May 2008StAndrew’sHall,Norwich,UKNatalieClein,cello;EuropeanChamberOrchestraConductor:MarkGottoni

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A Ninian1996 35minConcertoforclarinetandorchestra3(III=picc).2.corA.1.bcl.2.dbn—4.3.3.1—timp.perc(3):vib/whip/2timbales/5tom-t/SD/susp.cym/2tam-t/t.bells/lionsroar/BD/crot/marimba/tunedgongs/2cowbells/2congas/metalbar/2bellplates/sizzlecym/tam-t—harp—strings

"Using from the start the full dynamic and registral range of the clarinet, MacMillan seemed to be evoking memories of the stark lines and flashing gracenotes of the piobaireachd, the ancient music of the bagpipes." (The Independent)

"MacMillan's exceptional strength is his use of the orchestral palette. And here, Ninian is downright amazing... as a concerto it is riveting with the soloist and orchestra in spellbinding dialogue, reaction and confrontation..." (Glasgow Herald)

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World Premiere: 04 Apr 1997UsherHall,Edinburgh,UKJohnCushing,clarinet;RoyalScottishNationalOrchestraConductor:PaulDaniel

Piano Concerto No.2 2003 30minforpianoandstringorchestrastrings:minumum8.6.4.4.2

“This is a work of fierce physicality: a half-hour’s frenzy of folk-song and dance… The first movement, CumnockFair, is a whirling fantasy of 18th-century Scottish dance melodies… Shambards, the second movement is a dizzying hall of mirrors: Burnsian folk-song and fragments of the Mad Scene from LuciadiLammermoor drift in and out of focus… Shamnation sounds like a devilish Strathspey Society on speed. For sheer visceral excitement… this half-romp, half-tantrum of a work is hot stuff.” (The Times)

World Premiere: 08 May 2004LincolnCenter,NewYork,USAChristopherWheeldon,choreographer;NewYorkCityBalletConductor:JamesMacMillan

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A Scotch Bestiaryenigmatic variations on a zoological carnival at a Caledonian exhibition2003-04 34minfororganandorchestra3(II=afl,III=picc).3(III=corA).3(III=bcl).3(III=dbn)—4.3.3.1—timp.perc(4):crot/marimba/whip/lion'sroar/2typewriter(noisy)/t.bells/SD/4brakedr/vib/bongos/4tom-t/BD/dr-kit/xyl/2wdbl/5tpl.bl/tamb/tunedgongs/susp.cym/tam-t/glsp/2tgl/Herdenglocken/vibraslap/lgguiro/bodhrán/watergong/cyms/sizzle.cym/hi-hat—harp—elec.pft—strings

“A sonically spectacular concerto for organ and orchestra… The sense of whimsy inspired by the sight of pickup-sticks organ pipes bursting forth behind the stage led MacMillan through a stage of mental associations: Disney, cartoons, the Warner Bros classics, their daffy Carl Stalling soundtracks. What MacMillan has come up with is a two-part, quirkily animated concerto.” (Los Angeles Times)

"The piece was certainly fun: riotous, at times cacophonous, wittily orchestrated and cleverly structured. It also brilliantly integrated the organ into the orchestra proper. Reptiles and fish were conjured on organ pedals and tuba, with percussion and other brasses lending texture. Buzzing from the organ effectively suggested a queen bee, and a snare drum gave the howler monkey his martial personality..." (Los Angeles Daily News)

World Premiere: 07 Oct 2004DisneyHall,LosAngeles,USAWayneMarshall,organ;LosAngelesPhilharmonicConductor:Esa-PekkaSalonen

Tuireadh1991, arr.1995 22minarr.forclarinetandstringorchestra

"Tuireadh, for clarinet and string orchestra, is a thematically terse elegy for the victims of the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster in 1991, searingly intense and precisely focused; MacMillan has written nothing better." (The Guardian)


World premiere of version: 24 Nov 1995FilharmoniaBaltycka,Gdansk,PolandKarolRespondek,clarinet;GdanskPhilharmonicConductor:JamesMacMillan

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A Veni, Veni, Emmanuel1992 26minConcertoforpercussionandorchestra2(II=picc).2(II=corA).2(II=bcl).2(II=dbn)—2.2.2.0—timp—stringsSolopercussion:2tam-t(onelg)/2SD/2congas/6tom-t/2timbales/pedalBD/6Chin.gongs/6tpl.bl/logdrum/2wdbl/2cowbells/marimba(5-octave)/marktree/lgcym/sizzlecym/t.bells

"...a sure, confident, expertly engineered piece of soloist-versus-orchestra showmanship... Veni,Veni,Emmanuel arrests attention from the first downbeat. MacMillan's harmonic signalling and underpinning are lucid. His gestures are graphic in vividness, focused in purpose, powerful yet economical in musculature." (Financial Times)

"...strong, punchy rhythms, instant accessibility, an exuberant physicality in the sounds produced by both orchestra and soloist, and, at its centre, a more meditative section of a haunting, incantatory tranquility." (Daily Telegraph)


World Premiere: 10 Aug 1992RoyalAlbertHall,London,UKEvelynGlennie,percussion;ScottishChamberOrchestraConductor:Jukka-PekkaSaraste

Visitatio Sepulchri1992-93 40minfor7solosingersor7-partchorusandchamberorchestraText:Textsfroma14thcenturyEasterDayliturgicaldramaandtheTeDeum(L)

2S,A,2T,B,malespeaker(Sprechstimme)2(II=picc).2(II=corA).2(II=bcl).2(II=dbn)—2.2.2(II=btrbn).0—timp.perc(1):2cowbells/2wdbl/2bongos/2timbales/SD/2tam-t/5tom-t/5tpl.bl/glsp/t.bells/BD/cyms/belltree—strings(min:8.6.4.4.2)NB:thisworkisavailablebothasamusictheatrepieceandforconcertperformance

"This work is quintessential MacMillan. It progresses relentlessly from spaciously looming towers of string tone to outbursts of terror... the strength of feeling is irresistible; bursting with love, pain and tenderness..." (Opera)

World Premiere: 20 May 1993Tramway,Glasgow,UKFranciscoNegrin,director;ScottishChamberOrchestraConductor:IvorBolton

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The Birds of Rhiannon2001 24minTone-poemfororchestrawithchorus(SATB)seeFull Orchestra

Cantos Sagrados (orchestral version)1989 orch.1997 22minforchorus(SATB)andorchestraText:ArielDorfman,AnaMariaMendozaandsacredtexts(L-E)

3(III=afl/picc).2.corA.2.bcl.3(III=dbn)—4.3.3.1—timp.perc(3):vib/metalbar/cyms/sizzlecym/t.bells/SD/susp.cym/2tunedgongs(B,D)/BD/tam-t—harp—pft(=cel)—strings

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World premiere of version: 21 Mar 1998GlasgowCathedral,Glasgow,UKRoyalScottishNationalOrchestra&ChorusConductor:ChristopherBell

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Catherine’s Lullabies1990 20minforSATBchorus,brassandpercussionText:SentencesfromtheCreedandMagnificat,andfromamotherofthePlazadeMayo;Isaiah61:1-2;Ecclesiasticus4;LitanyoftheSaints(L-E)

3tpt.2trbn.Btrbn—perc(2):metalwindchimes/susp.cym/snaredr/4tom-t/crot;ant.cyms/t.bells/2timbales/lgtam-t

World Premiere: 10 feb 1991Glasgow,UKJohnCurrieSingers

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis 1999/2001 20minforSATBchoirandorchestraText:1662BookofCommonPrayer(E)

2(II=picc).2(II=corA).2.2—4.3.3.1—timp.perc(2):vib/glsp/t.bells/tam-t/susp.cym—harp—organ(adlib)—strings

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World Premiere (orchestral version of Magnificat): 05 Jan 2000WellsCathedral,Wells,UKWellsCatherdralChoir/StJohn’sCollegeChoir,Cambridge/BBCPhilharmonicConductor:JamesMacMillan

World Premiere (orchestral version of Nunc Dimittis): 16 Nov 2001BridgewaterHall,Manchester,UKBBCPhilharmonicandBBCSingersConductor:JamesMacMillan

forchoirandorganversionseeChoral (Accompanied)works

Quickening1998 48minforcounter-tenor,2tenorandbaritonesoloists,children’schoir,SATBchoirandorchestraText:MichaelSymmonsRoberts(E)

2.picc.3(III=corA).3(III=bcl).2.dbn—4.4.3.1—timp.perc(4):handbells/3templebowls(dobaci)/marimba/tgl(high)/rainstick/2wdbl/2congas/5tpl.bl/4brakedr/fingercyms/glsp/steeldr/3wdbl/SD/cyms/susp.cym/tam-t(med)/vib/tunedgongs/5cowbells/5tom-t/tam-t(lg)/t.bells/3tgl(high,med,low)/whip/logdr/BD/susp.cym—harp—pft(=cel)—chamberorg—grandorgorsynth(adlib)—strings

"Using a richly allusive libretto by Michael Symmons Roberts, Quickening deals with the the concept of birth in all its explosive, miraculous, life-changing and occasionally life-threatening forms... MacMillan grounds it in sonorities of gripping viscerality... His great gift is to make a complex but white-hot passion immediately coherent and persuasive." (The Times)

"Two outer movements, joyous and celebratory, frame an inner pair, dark and menacing with belching low brass, screaming trumpets, whip-crack percussion and martial snare drums... MacMillan's output is prodigious, his skill at handling large forces dazzling..." (The Observer)

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World Premiere: 05 Sep 1999RoyalAlbertHall,London,UKHilliardEnsemble;BBCSymphonyOrchestra/BBCSymphonyChorus/WestminsterCathedralBoys’ChoirConductor:AndrewDavis

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Seven Last Words from the Cross1993 45minCantataforSSAATTBBchorusandstringsText:Biblical(E-L)

"...probably MacMillan's masterpiece... the maturity in this composition is astounding: the tonal structure of the seven settings, harmony which can be spare or lush without ever being overwritten, an inexorable sense of the drama in the text, the baland between voice and strings. A few seconds, in difficult times, when meditation was centre stage, when it was possible to regain optimism." (The Guardian)



World Premiere (concert): 30 Mar 1994StAloysiusChurch,Glasgow,UKCapellaNova/ScottishEnsembleConductor:AlanTaverner

St John PassionThe Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to John2007 1hr27minforsolobaritone,chorusandorchestraText:RevisedStandardVersionofTheBible(E);theVulgate(L)

Baritonesolo,smallchorus(="narrator"),largerchorus2(II=picc).2(II=corA).2(II=bcl).1.dbn—4.3.3.1—timp.perc(1):t.bells/tunedgongs/tgl/Sanctusbells/5tpl.bl/SD/BD/susp.cym/sizzlecym/tam-t—chamberorgan—strings

"MacMillan has come up with a masterly work that has all the hallmarks of a 21st-century classic… MacMillan is a master of ratcheting up the tension, building the drama, his subtle use of syncopation adding to the effect. But he can also turn his hand to the most lyrical, vulnerable music." (Musical America)

“A blazing blockbuster, a piece as fiercely communicative as anything that the 48-year-old MacMillan has written before…. The end of Part One was masterly: no loudspeaker wailing as the Crucifixion loomed, but a resigned, pianissimo meditation, threaded with keening instrumental solos.” (The Times)

World Premiere: 27 Apr 2008BarbicanHall,London,UKChristopherMaltman,baritone;LondonSymphonyOrchestraandChorusConductor:ColinDavis

Visitatio Sepulchri1992-93 40minforSSATTBBchorus(or7soloists)andchamberorchestraseeworksforVoices and Orchestra

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) ...as others see us...1990 25minformixedensemblefl(=picc).cl(=bcl).bsn(=dbn)—tpt—perc(1):tabor/marimba/wdbl/4rototoms/3susp.cym(high/med/low)/SD—strings(1.0.1.1.1)

World Premiere: 05 Apr 1990NationalPortraitGallery,London,UKScottishChamberOrchestra

Adam’s Rib1994-95 12minforbrassquintet2tpt.hn.trbn.tuba

World Premiere: 28 Mar 1995UsherHall,Edinburgh,UKMembersofScottishChamberOrchestra

Chant for John2007 2minforpianoquartetpft—vln.vla.vlc

The Exorcism of Rio Sumpúl1989 25minformixedensembleorchamberorchestra1(=picc).2(II=corA).2(II=bcl).1—2.0.0.0—perc(1):2timbales/2snaredr(high/low)/tam-t/belltree/susp.cym/windchimes/BD(withpedal)/anvil/glsp/5tom-t—stringsEnsembleversionreducesstringsto1.1.1.1.1

World Premiere: 28 Jan 1990Glasgow,UKParagonEnsemble;Conductor:DavidDavies

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) Exsultet1998 8minforbrassquintetandoptionalpercussionhn.2tpt.trbn.tuba—perc(opt):SD/bell

World Premiere: 01 Dec 1998RoyalScottishAcademyofMusicandDrama,Glasgow,UK

forsymphonicbrassversionseeFull Orchestra

For Max2004 3minforpianoquintetpft—2vln.vla.vlc

World Premiere: 22 Jun 2004StMagnusCathedral,Kirkwall,Orkney,UKNashEnsemble

For Michael2004 3minforpianoquintetpft—2vln.vla.vlc

World Premiere: 15 Jul 2004PittvillePumpRoom,Cheltenham,UKAleksanderMadzar/BelceaQuartet

For Sally2006 4minforpianoquintetpft—2vln.vla.vlc

World Premiere: 05 Jul 2006PittvillePumpRoom,Cheltenham,UKNashEnsemble;Conductor:MartynBrabbins

Fourteen Little Pictures1997 25minforpianotriopft—vln.vlc

"A powerful new chamber work... MacMillan sets in motion a battle of contrasts - of energy and stasis, of ferocious thunder and ghostly echoes - while the unifying element is its mood of dark profundity." (Daily Telegraph)

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) World Premiere: 21 May 1997WigmoreHall,London,UKPeterFrankl/GyörgyPauk/RalphKirshbaumPianoTrio

Horn Quintet2007 15minforhornandstringquartet

World Premiere: 09 Jul 2007PittvillePumpRoom,Cheltenham,UKNashEnsemble;Conductor:RichardWatkins

intercession1991 7minfor3oboesor3saxophones

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World Premiere: 26 Nov 1991ArtGallery,Huddersfield,UKChioneOboeTrio

Memento1994 5minforstringquartet

World Premiere: 13 Oct 1994MerkinConcertHall,NewYork,NewYork,USAKronosQuartet

The Road to Ardtalla1983 15minforchambersextetfl(=picc).cl(=bcl)—hn—pft—vln.vlc

World Premiere: 06 Nov 1987MachesterUniversityConcertHall,Manchester,UKUniversityNewMusicEnsemble;Conductor:JamesMacMillan

String Quartet No.32007 26minforstringquartet

World Premiere: 21 May 2008QueenElizabethHall,London,UKTakácsStringQuartet

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) They saw the stone had been rolled away1993 6minFanfareforbrassandpercussion3tpt.3trbn—perc(2):2timbales/2bongos/5tpl.bl/2wdbl/2cowbells/t.bells/lgtam-t/BD/4tom-tAlternativescoringfor2tpt.hn.2trbn.tuba—perc(2):asabove

World Premiere: 27 Aug 1993StGilesCathedral,Edinburgh,UKEdinburghFestivalEnsemble;Conductor:ChristopherBell

Three Dawn Rituals1983 9minforchamberensembleafl(=picc).cl(=Ebcl).bn—hn—perc:vib—preparedpft—vln.vlc


World Premiere: 02 Nov 1985London,UKNomosEnsemble

Tuireadh1991 22minforclarinetandstringquartet

"Tuireadh is a deeply compassionate threnody which shows the influence of Gaelic psalmody still practised in the Western Isles today." (Gramophone)


World Premiere: 25 Jun 1991StMagnusCathedral,Kirkwall,Orkney,UKJamesCampbell,clarinet;AllegriStringQuartet

fororchestralversionseeworksforSolo Instrument and Orchestra

Two Movements for Wind Quintet1987 10minforwindquintet

World Premiere: 29 Jun 2007RoyalScottishAcademyofMusicandDrama,Glasgow,UKRSAMDensembleConductor:JamesMacMillan

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) Two Visions of Hoy1986 9minforsolooboeandensemblefl.cl.bsn—hn—perc(1):4rototoms/marimba/tam-t/med.gong/susp.cym—vlc

World Premiere: 17 Jun 1986ManchesterUniversityConcertHall,Manchester,UKManchesterUniversityNewMusicEnsemble;Conductor:JamesMacMillan

Untold1987, rev.1991 7minforwindquintetfl.corA.cl.bn—hn

World Premiere: 13 Sep 1988Ayr,UKFlaxtonEnsemble

Visions of a November SpringString Quartet No.11988, rev.1991 28min

"...a work of great depth and intensity with a poignant Scottish flavour, evident in the apparent allusions to Gaelic psalmody." (Daily Telegraph)

World Premiere: 03 May 1989Glasgow,UKBinghamStringQuartet

Why is this night different? String Quartet No.21998 22min"...an arrestingly powerful and sure-footed masterwork, ideally proportioned, economically argued and always evincing a riveting narrative and emotional scope." (Gramophone)

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World Premiere: 23 Apr 1998WigmoreHall,London,UKMagginiQuartet

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) Búsqueda1988 29minMusicTheatreworkforspeaker,actors,sopranoandensembleseeStageworks

Parthenogenesis2000 50minScenaforsoprano,baritone,actressandchamberensembleseeStageworks

The Prophecy 1997 8minforsopranoandensembleText:'TheStoryofDeirdre',astranslatedbyKennethHurlstone-Jacksonin'ACelticMiscellany'(E)

fl.Ebcl—trbn—perc(1):glsp/2tom-t/BD/susp.cym—vln.vlc

World premiere of version: 12 Mar 2001TeatroallaScala,Milan,ItalyCristinaZavalloni,voice;Sentieriselvaggi

Raising Sparks1997 34min6songsformezzo-sopranoandensembleText:MichaelSymmonsRoberts(E)

fl.cl—harp—pft—stringquartet"Based on a Hassidic creation myth, it depicts the outpouring of God's love into a clay vessel which explodes, showering the universe with scattered "sparks"... MacMillan's response is slow-moving, spare, intense: reminiscent of the dark but spiritually-directed music coming out of Russia..." (Independent on Sunday)

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World Premiere: 05 Oct 1997QueenElizabethHall,London,UKJeanRigby,mezzo-soprano;NashEnsemble;Conductor:MartynBrabbins

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) Scots Song1991 6minforsopranoandensembleorpianoText:TheTrystbyWilliamSoutar(Scots)

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World Premiere: 10 May 1991Brighton,UKComposersEnsemble

Variation on Johnny Faa’1988 4minforsoprano,flute(doublingpiccolo),celloandharpText:Traditional(E)

25th May 19672002 3minforsolopianoPianoScoreonsaleassheetdownloadfromwww.boosey.com

World Premiere: 06 May 2003BatemanAuditorium,GonvilleandCaiusCollege,Cambridge,UKSimonSmith

Angel1993 4minforpianosolo

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9790060106729PianoAlbum:20thCenturyPianoCollection

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World Premiere: 31 Oct 1993StockbridgeParishChurch,Edinburgh,UKJamesMacMillan,piano

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1992 2minWithapologiestoEricSatieforsolopiano


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World Premiere: 28 feb 1993QueensHall,Edinburgh,UKCatherineEdwards,piano

Birthday Present1997 2minforpianosolo



A Cecilian Variation for J.F.K.1991 3min30sec2ndmovementof'KennedyVariations'forpianosolo

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World Premiere: 22 Nov 1991KennedyCenter,WashingtonDC,USADavidOwenNorris,piano

For Ian2000 5minforsolopiano



World Premiere: 08 feb 2000St.Ninian'sWomen'sGuild,Cumnock,UKJamesMacMillan,piano

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2002 3minforsolopiano

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World Premiere: 06 May 2003BatemanAuditorium,GonvilleandCaiusCollege,Cambridge,UKSimonSmith,piano

in angustiis... I2001 3minforpianosolo



World Premiere: 16 feb 2002ButeHall,GlasgowUniversity,Glasgow,UKSimonSmith,piano

Lumen Christi1997 2min30secforpianosolo


World Premiere: 11 Apr 1997PalazzoBarozzi,Milan,ItalyCarloBoccadoro,piano

Piano Sonata1985 14minforpiano

"...intense lonely landscapes, wild gestures and beautifully-spaced harmonies." (Musical Times)


World Premiere: 26 feb 1989PurcellRoom,London,UKRolfHind,piano

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After the Tryst1988 3minforviolinandpiano,alsoarrangedforsaxophoneandpiano

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World Premiere: 19 Sep 1990HenryWoodHall,Glasgow,UKMembersoftheParagonEnsemble

World premiere of saxophone version: 07 Jul 1995RoyalPumpRoom,LeamingtonSpa,UKGerardMcChrystal,saxophone

Cello Sonata No.11999 22minforcelloandpiano

"One of MacMillan's main strengths is in finding new perspectives for old musical genres, and there are echoes here of the visionary force and depth of Bartók's Second Violin Sonata..." (Gramophone)


World Premiere: 30 May 1999AssemblyRooms,Bath,UKRaphaelWallfisch,cello;JohnYork,piano

Cello Sonata No.22000 17minforcelloandpiano


World Premiere: 17 Apr 2001Queen'sHall,Edinburgh,UKJulianLloydWebber,cello;JohnLenehan,piano

A Different World1995 5minforviolinandpiano


World Premiere: 22 Jul 1995AlmeidaTheatre,London,UKMadeleineMitchell,violin;JohnLenehan,piano

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2005 8minforviolinandpianoororchestraseeworksforSolo Instrument and Orchestra

From Galloway2000 2minforsoloclarinet

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World Premiere: 01 Oct 2000RoyalConcertHall,Glasgow,UKJohnCushing,clarinet

Gaudeamus in loci pace1998 6minfororgansolo

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World Premiere: 12 Sep 1998PluscardenAbbey,UKJosephCullen,organ

HB to MB2004 3min30secforsolocello

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World Premiere: 07 Oct 2004HouseofLords,PalaceofWestminster,London,UKRaphaelWallfisch,cello

in angustiis... II2001 8minforcellooroboesolo

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Kiss on Wood1993 9minforviolinandpiano.alsoarrangedforcelloandpiano



World Premiere: 06 Aug 1994HarrogateFestival,UKMadeleineMitchell,violin;JohnLenehan,piano

World premiere of cello version: 15 Dec 1994WigmoreHall,London,UKJulianLloydWebber,cello;JohnLenehan,piano

forarrangementforcelloandstringorchestraseeworksforSolo Instrument and Orchestra

Northern Skies2000 14minSevenintermediatepiecesforcelloandpiano


World Premiere: 09 Mar 2001Hutcheson'sHall,Glasgow,UKCatherineMacMillan/FayJennett/RachelBrolly/AlisonJones,vlc/MyraChahin,pft

Le Tombeau de Georges Rouault2003 14minforsoloorgan

"...a kaleidoscope of virtuosity, fleetingly stilled by evocations of Bach chorale preludes." (The Times)

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World Premiere: 18 Mar 2004BirminghamSymphonyHall,Birmingham,UKThomasTrotter,organ

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1983 2min30secfororgan


World Premiere: 09 Jul 1983ChapelofStAlberttheGreat,Edinburgh,UKMichaelBonaventure,organ

White Note Paraphrase1994 2minfororgansolo


World Premiere: 25 Jun 1994KirkcudbrightParishChurch,Scotland,UKTomCarrick,organ

Ballad1994 4minforvoiceandpianoText:WilliamSoutar(Scots)


World Premiere: 15 May 1994RSAMD,Glasgow,UKFrancesMcCafferty,sop/GraemeMcNaught,pft

The Blacksmith1981? 3min30secvocalarrangementofanIrishtraditionalsongforvoiceandBflatclarinetText:Trad(E)

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The Children1995 5minformezzo/baritoneandpianoText:WilliamSoutar(E)


World Premiere: 23 Jul 1995BBCRadio3,UKSandraPorter,sop/GraemeMcNaught,pft

The Halie Speerit’s Dauncers(The Holy Spirit’s Dancers)1996 6minforvoiceandpianoorunisonchildrenschoirandpianoText:JamesMcGonigal(Scots)

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...here in hiding...1993 13minforfourmalevoicesorforunaccompaniedchoirseeChoral (Unaccompanied)

in angustiis... II2001 8minforsopranosoloText:thecomposer,compliedfromancientEnglish,DutchandLatinsources

SopranoScoreonsaleassheetdownloadfromwww.boosey.com

Mouth of the Dumb2008 3minforSSsoliorchorusandharpText:JamesMacMillanafterLatinfromtheInchcolmAntiphoner(E)

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L On Love1984 6minforsolovoiceorunisontreblesandorganText:from‘TheProphet’byKhalilGibran(E)

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World Premiere: 28 Aug 1984ChapelofStAlberttheGreat,Edinburgh,UKBarbaraKelly;JamesMacMillan

Os mutorum2008 3minfor2-partwomen'svoicesandmedievalharpText:Medievalchant(L)

World Premiere: 22 Jun 2008StColumba’sChurch,Maryhill,Glasgow,UKCanty

Scots Song1991 6minforvoiceandpianoText:TheTrystbyWilliamSoutar(Scots)


Cantos Sagrados1989 22minforchorus(SATB)andorganText:ArielDorfman,AnaMariaMendozaandsacredtexts(L-E)

"MacMillan propels us unceremoniously into the heat, glare and violence of Latin America... In the outer movements the choral writing is vividly dissonant with an organ part to match. The central prayer, an almost conversational arioso over a slow-breathing ostinato, is hauntingly beautiful." (Choir and Organ)


World Premiere: 10 feb 1990OldStPaul’sChurch,Edinburgh,UKScottishChamberChoir;Conductor:ColinTipple

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1997 2min30secformixedchorus(SATB)withaccompanimentoforgan,harp,stringtriooranythreelikeinstrumentsText:‘TheManwiththeBlueGuitar’(WallaceStevens)(E)


World Premiere: 12 Dec 1998WalkerHall,Kilbirnie,Ayrshire,UKCunninghamChamberChoir/membersoftheNorthAyrshireYouthSilverBand;Conductor:DorothyHowden

Chosen2003 7minforSAATTBchoirandorganText:MichaelSymmonsRoberts(E)


World Premiere: 24 Dec 2003PaisleyAbbey,Glasgow,UKOliverRundell,organ;ChoirofPaisleyAbbey;Conductor:GeorgeMcPhee

The Company of Heaven1999 30minforchildren’svoices(in2parts)andorgan,withoptionalwindbandandcarnyxText:JohnBell(E)

Dutch Carol2001 4minforunisontreblevoicesandpianoText:Dutchtraditional.EnglishtranslationbyRCTrevelyan,takenfromtheOxfordBookofCarols(E-L)

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The Galloway Mass1996 15minforcantor,congregation,choirandorganText:SettingofCatholicMass(E)

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The Halie Speerit’s Dauncers(The Holy Spirit’s Dancers)1996 6minforunisonchildrenschoirandpiano,orvoiceandpianoText:JamesMcGonigal(Scots)


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World Premiere: 28 Apr 1997CorpusChristiPrimarySchool,Glasgow,UKChildrenofCorpusChristiPrimarySchoolConductor:JamesMacMillan

Heyoka Te Deum1999 6minfor3-parttreblevoices,flute,tubularbellsandpianoText:LatinTeDeum(L)/LakotanativeIndiantext(E)

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World Premiere: 03 May 2001GreatHallofCooperUnion,NewYork,USABrooklynYouthChoirConductor:DianneBerkon

In Splendoribus Sanctorum (Amidst the splendours of the heavenly sanctuary) (The Strathclyde Motets)2005 8minCommunionmotetforNativityMidnightMassforSATBchorusandobbligatotrumpetororganText:RomanBreviary,Psalm109:3(L)

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World Premiere: 24 Dec 2006StColumba’sChurch,Maryhill,Glasgow,UKStColumba’sChurchChoir

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of David1979 3minforSATBchoirandorganText:St.Ephraihm(E)

"At all times the lines are lyrical and singer-friendly, and the word-setting inspired. A definite must for any competent choir's library." (Organists' Review)


World Premiere: 09 Jun 1979StPeter's,Edinburgh,UKScholaSanctiAlbertiConductor:JamesMacMillan

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis1999/2000 20minforSATBchoirandorganText:1662BookofCommonPrayer(E)


World premiere complete: 15 Jul 2000Cathedral,Winchester,UKChoirofWinchesterCathedral/PhilipScriven,organConductor:DavidHill

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Mass2000 35minforSATBchorusandorganText:Liturgical(E)

"It is hard to think of any recent music that conveys religious ecstasy as intensely as James MacMillan’s Mass... Closer in style to Britten than to Tavener, MacMillan is distinctive in his brilliant use of choral effects, with surging crescendos to stir the blood: it is music of high voltage from first to last." (Gramophone)


World Premiere: 22 Jun 2000WestminsterCathedral,London,UKAndrewReid,organ;WestminsterCathedralChoirConductor:MartinBaker

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2008 3minforchorusorSSsoliandharpText:JamesMacMillanafterLatinfromtheInchcolmAntiphoner(E)

A New Song1997 4minforSATBchorusandorganText:fromPsalm96(E)9790060112089ChoralScore(MixedVoices)

World Premiere: 01 Mar 1998StBride’sEpiscopalChurch,Glasgow,UKTheChoirofStBride’sEpiscopalChurch;PeterChristie,orgConductor:RobertMarshall

Nunc Dimittis2000 8minforSATBchoirandorganseeMagnificat and Nunc Dimittis

O2008 8minAdventantiphonfor21Decemberfor3-parttreblechoir,trumpetandstringsororgan(E)

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World Premiere: 23 Jun 2008Queen’sHall,Edinburgh,UKStMary’sMusicSchool

On Love1984 6minforunisontreblesorsolovoiceandorganText:from“TheProphet”byKhalilGibran(E)


World Premiere: 28 Aug 1984ChapelofStAlberttheGreat,Edinburgh,UKBarbaraKelly;JamesMacMillan

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1996 7minforSATBchoirandorganText:JeremyTaylor(E)


World Premiere: 27 Apr 1997CaiusChapel,Cambridge,UKChoirofGonville&CaiusCollegeAndrewArthur,organConductor:GeoffreyWebber

Os mutorum2008 3minfor2-partwomen'svoicesandmedievalharpText:Medievalchant(L)

World Premiere: 22 Jun 2008StColumba’sChurch,Maryhill,Glasgow,UKCanty

Padre Pio’s Prayer2008 5minPadrePioprayersettingforSATBchorusandorganText:JamesMacMillanversionofprayerattributedtoPadrePio(E)

9790060120350Choralscore(MixedVoices)InPreparation

World Premiere: 03 Jun 2008WestminsterCathedral,London,UKTheSixteen;Conductor:HarryChristophers

The Prophecy 1997 8minforschoolchoir(2-part)andensembleText:'TheStoryofDeirdre',astranslatedbyKennethHurlstone-Jacksonin'ACelticMiscellany'(E)

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World Premiere: 11 Oct 1997QueenElizabethHall,London,UKchildrenfromHaringeySchools/musiciansfromThePhilharmoniaConductor:JamesMacMillan,NicholasWilks,JohnCooney

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1995 6minforSATBchorusandorganText:Anonymous,13thcentury(E)


World Premiere: 24 Dec 1995King’sCollege,Cambridge,UKKing’sCollegeChapelChoirJamesVivian,organ;Conductor:StephenCleobury

The Song of the Lamb2008 5minforSATBchorusandorganText:RevisedStandardVersionoftheBible,Revelation15:2-4(E)

World Premiere: 09 Mar 2008HouseofHopePresbyterianChurch,SaintPaul,Minnesota,USANancyLancaster,organ;MotetChoirofTheHouseofHopePresbyterianChurch,SaintPaul,MinnesotaConductor:AndrewAltenbach

St Anne’s Mass1985 5minCongregationalMassforunisonvoicesandorgan(orpiano)withoptionalSATBchoirText:SettingofmovementsfromCatholicMass(E)

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Te Deum2001 15minforSATBchoirandorganText:1662BookofCommonPrayer(E)


World Premiere: 03 feb 2002TowerofLondon,London,UKChoiroftheChapelRoyal,HerMajesty’sTowerofLondonColmCarey,organ;Conductor:StephenTilton

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D) After Virtue

2006 5minforSSAATTBBchorusacappellaText:Takenfromthefinalparagraph(chapter18)ofthebookAfterVirtue,byAlasdairMacIntyre(E)

World Premiere: 18 Mar 2007Oslo,NorwayOsloSoloistsChoirConductor:GretePedersen

The Canticle of Zachariah(The Strathclyde Motets)2007 3min30secforSATBchoiracappellaText:LukeI:68-79(E)


World Premiere: 02 Dec 2007StColumba’sChurch,Maryhill,Glasgow,UKStrathclydeUniversityChamberChoir

A Child’s Prayer1996 4minforSATBchoiracappella,withtwotreble/sopranosolosText:Traditional,rememberedbycomposerfromchildhood(E)


World Premiere: 04 Jul 1996WestminsterAbbey,London,UKChoirofWestminsterAbbey;Conductor:MartinNeary

Christus Vincit1994 7minforSSAATTBBchourswithsopranosoloText:fromtheWorcesterAcclamations,10thcentury(L)


World Premiere: 23 Nov 1994StPaul’sCathedral,London,UKChoirsofWestminsterAbbey,Westminster&StPaul’sCathedralsConductor:JohnScott

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D) Data est mihi omnis potestas

(It has been given to me) (The Strathclyde Motets)2007 5minCommunionmotetforAscensionDayforSATBchorusacappellaText:RomanBreviary,Matthew28:18-19(L)


World Premiere: 14 May 2007StColumba’sChurch,Maryhill,Glasgow,UKStrathclydeUniversityChamberChoirConductor:AlanTavener

Divo Aloysio Sacrum1991 7minforSATBchorusandoptionalorganText:fromaninscriptiononachurchwall(L-E)

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World Premiere: 27 Aug 1993StGilesCathedral,Edinburgh,UKRoyalScottishNationalOrchestraChorus/EdinburghFestivalEnsembleConductor:ChristopherBell

Dominus dabit benignitatem(The Lord will bestow his loving kindness) (The Strathclyde Motets)2006 5minCommunionmotetforthe1stSundayofAdventforSATBchorusacappellaText:RomanBreviary,Psalm84:13(L)


World Premiere: 03 Dec 2006StColumba’sChurch,Maryhill,Glasgow,UKStrathclydeUniversityChamberChoirConductor:AlanTavener

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D) Factus est repente

(Suddenly, a sound came) (The Strathclyde Motets)2005 3minCommunionmotetforPentecostforSATBchorusacappellaText:RomanBreviary,Acts2:2,4(L)


World Premiere: 15 May 2005StrathclydeUniversityChaplaincyCentre,Glasgow,UKStrathclydeUniversityChamberChoir;Conductor:AlanTavener

...fiat mihi...2007 5minfordoublechorusacappellaText:StabatMater(L)withadditionaltextbythecomposer(E)

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World Premiere: 21 Mar 2008WellsCathedral,Wells,UKBathCamerata;Conductor:NigelPerrin

The Gallant Weaver1997 7minforSATBchoiracappellaText:RobertBurns(Scots)


World Premiere: 14 Apr 1997ThomasCoatsMemorialChurch,Paisley,UKPaisleyAbbeyChoirConductor:GeorgeMcPhee

Give me Justice2003 3minIntroitforthe5thSundayofLentforSATBchoiracappellaText:Psalm42(43)(E-L)


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D) ...here in hiding...

1993 13minforunaccompaniedchoir(ATTB)orfourmalevoicesText:fromAdorotedevotebyStThomasAquinasandtranslatedbyGerardManleyHopkins(E,L)

"...a striking mixture of Gregorian chant with contemporary dissonance." (The Guardian)

9790060114588ChoralScore(MaleVoicesATTB)

World Premiere: 10 Aug 1993 StevensonHall,RSAMD,Glasgow,UKTheHilliardEnsemble

Invocation2006 6minforSATBchorusacappellaText:KarolWojtyla,transJerzyPeterkiewicz(E)

World Premiere: 11 Jul 2006TewkesburyAbbey,Tewkesbury,UKOrielSingers;Conductor:TimMorris

Laudi alla Vergine Maria2004 9minforSSAATTBBchorusacappellaText:Dante(I)


World Premiere: 06 Oct 2004StJanskerk,Gouda,NetherlandsNetherlandsChamberChoir;Conductor:StephenLayton

Màiri1995 11minfor16-partchoiracappellaText:EvanMaccoll,transJamesMacMillan(E)

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World Premiere: 19 May 1995StJohn'sSmithSquare,London,UKBBCSingers;Conductor:BoHolten

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D) Missa Brevis

Kyrie; Gloria; Sanctus; Agnus Dei; At the conclusion1977 16minforSATBchorusacappellaText:Latinmass

"...here is a definite addition to the repertoire - finely crafted, sensitively set, it should sit well alongside the essays of Walton, Berkeley etc." (Organists' Review)


World premiere complete: 22 Nov 2007GreyfriarsKirk,Edinburgh,UKCappellaNova;Conductor:AlanTavener

Mitte manum tuam(Stretch forth your hand) (The Strathclyde Motets)2006 3minCommunionmotetforthe2ndSundayofEasterforSATBchoiracappellaText:RomanBreviary,John20:27(L)


World Premiere: 23 Apr 2006StColumba’sChurch,Maryhill,Glasgow,UKStrathclydeUniversityChamberChoir;Conductor:AlanTavener

Nemo te condemnavit2005 5minforSATBchorusacappellaText:GospelaccordingtoStJohn,chapter8,verses10-11(L)

9790051477470 ChoralScore(MixedVoices)

World Premiere: 18 Nov 2005WoolseyHall,YaleUniversity,NewHaven,USAYaleGleeClub;Conductor:JeffreyDouma

O bone Jesu2002 10minforSATBchorusacappellaText:Anon,16thcentury(L)


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D) World Premiere: 10 Oct 2002

SouthwarkCathedral,London,UKTheSixteen;Conductor:HarryChristophers

O Radiant Dawn(The Strathclyde Motets)2007 3minAdventantiphonfor21DecemberforSATBchoiracappella(E)


World Premiere: 02 Dec 2007StColumba’sChurch,Maryhill,Glasgow,UKStColumba’sChurchChoir

Pascha nostrum immolatus est(Our passover is sacrificed) (The Strathclyde Motets)2008 3minCommunionmotetforEasterDayforSATBchorusacappella(L)


World Premiere: 23 Mar 2008StColumba’sChurch,Maryhill,Glasgow,UKStrathclydeUniversityChamberChoir;Conductor:AlanTavener

Sedebit Dominus Rex(The Lord will sit on his throne) (The Strathclyde Motets)2005 5minCommunionmotetforthefeastofChristtheKingforSATBchorusacappellaText:RomanBreviary,Psalm28:10b,11b(L-E)


World Premiere: 20 Nov 2005StrathclydeUniversityChaplaincyCentre,Glasgow,UKStrathclydeUniversityChamberChoir;Conductor:AlanTavener

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D) So Deep

1992 7minforSSAATTBBchoruswithoptionaloboeandviolasolosText:RobertBurns(Scots)

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The Strathclyde Motets2005-08 seeunderindividualworksChoral(Accompanied):In splendoribus sanctorum

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The Canticle of Zachariah Data est mihi omnis potestas Dominus dabit benignitatem Factus est repente Mitte manum tuam

Success2006 2minforSATBchorusacappellaText:BessieStanley(E)

"This is an eminently singable and attractive setting, and the closing reiterations of 'this is to have succeeded' are very moving indeed." (Organists’ Review)


Sun-Dogs2006 18minforSATBchorusacappella(withmultipledivisi)Text:MichaelSymmonsRoberts‘SunDogs’(E);LatinfromtheRomanMissal;Englishtrad.

“The music itself was a revelation: a mesmeric blending of traditional and contemporary elements… a choral array of chanting and whispering, of shouting and speaking, of whistling and controlling disparate lines so that they wondrously merged… Dogs, beggars, suns and stars turn into metaphors… The whole settled upon the ears like magic…” (Indiana Herald-Times)

World Premiere: 06 Aug 2006AuerHall,Bloomington,Indiana,USAIndianaUniversityContemporaryVocalEnsembleConductor:CarmenTéllez

O Radiant Dawn Pascha nostrum immolatus est Sedebit Dominus Rex Videns Dominus

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D) Tenebrae Responsories

2006 20minforchorusacappellaText:fromtheRomanBreviary(L)

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"This is a great work... The Tenebrae settings are complex and highly dramatic. MacMillan employs contrapuntal and chromatic lines, ornamentation derived from Jewish cantolation, glossalia and humming... " (Church Times)


World Premiere: 04 Apr 2007StAndrew’sintheSquare,Glasgow,UKCappellaNovaConductor:AlanTavener

To My Successor2002 3minforSATBchorusacappellaText:GeorgeHerbert(E)


World Premiere: 27 feb 2003CanterburyCathedral,Canterbury,UKChoirofCanterburyCathedralConductor:DavidFlood

Tremunt videntes angeli2001 8minforSATBchoiracappellaText:5thCenturyLatinhymn‘Aeternerexaltissime’(L)


World Premiere: 09 May 2002StMary’sCathedral,Edinburgh,UKChoirofStMary’sCathedral,EdinburghConductor:MatthewOwens

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(When the Lord saw) (The Strathclyde Motets)2005 6 minCommunionmotetfotthe5thSundayinLentforSATBchorusacappellaText:RomanBreviary,JohnII:33,35,43,44,39(L)


World Premiere: 13 Mar 2005StrathclydeUniversityChaplaincyCentre,Glasgow,UKStrathclydeUniversityChamberChoir

Festival Fanfares1986 4minforbrassband

Jebel2007 5minforbrassband

World Premiere: 01 Sep 2008JordanhillSchool,Glasgow,UKPupilsofJordanhillSchool

Sowetan Spring1990 11minforwindband3fl(III=picc).ob.CorA.Ebcl.3Bbcl.Ebaltocl.Bbbcl.2bn.2Ebasax.2Bbtsax.Ebbarsax—4hn.6tpt.2trbn.basstbn.2ttuba.2tuba.db—timp.perc(4):4congas/SD/cyms/metalwindchimes/2timbales/tam-t/2tom-t/3susp/cym/BD

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World Premiere: 23 Sep 1990Glasgow,UKWindsoftheRoyalScottishNationalOrchestraConductor:JohnPaynter

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DISCOGRAPHY61

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HY The Berserking / Into the ferment /

Britannia MartinRoscoe/BBCPhilharmonic/JamesMacMillanChandosCHAN10092

The Birds of Rhiannon / Magnificat / Nunc Dimittis / Màiri / The Gallant Weaver / ExsultetBBCSingers/JonathanScott/BBCPhilharmonic/JamesMacMillanChandosCHAN9997

BritanniaAtlantaSymphonyOrchestra/DonaldRunniclesTelarcCD-80677;SACD-60677

Cantos Sagrados / Tremunt videntes angeli / Divo Aloysio Sacrum / The Gallant Weaver / A Child’s Prayer / Seinte Mari Moder Milde / Christus Vincit / So DeepTheElysianSingers/SamLaughtonSignumSIGCD507

Cello Sonata Nos.1 & 2 / Northern Skies / Kiss on WoodHenriDemarquette/GrahamScottDeux-EllesDXL1115

The Confession of Isobel Gowdie / Tuireadh / The Exorcism of Rio SumpúlMartinFröst/BBCScottishSymphonyOrchestra/OsmoVänskäBIS1169

The Confession of Isobel Gowdie / TrystBBCScottishSymphonyOrchestra/JerzyMaksymiukKochSchwann310502

The Confession of Isobel GowdieLondonPhilharmonicOrchestra/MarinAlsopLPO0035(2008release)

Epiclesis / NinianJohnWallace/JohnCushing/RoyalScottishNationalOrchestra/AlexanderLazarevBIS1069

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HY fourteen Little Pictures / Cello Sonata No.1 / Kiss on Wood /

Lumen Christi / A Cecilian Variation for JfK / AngelNashEnsemble/RaphaelWallfisch/JohnYorkBlackBox1008

from AyrshireNicolaBenedetti/AcademyofStMartinintheFields/JamesMacMillanDeutscheGrammophon4763159

Gaudeamus in loci pace / Wedding Introit / White Note ParaphraseWilliamWhiteheadDeux-EllesDXL1097

Mass / Christus Vincit / Gaudeamus in loci pace / Seinte Mari moder milde / A Child’s Prayer / ChangedChoirofWestminsterCathedral/AndrewReid/MartinBakerHyperionCDA67219

MementoSmithQuartetSignumSIGCD088

O bone JesuTheSixteen/HarryChristophersCoroCOR16010

On the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin / Christus VincitChoirofNewCollegeOxford/EdwardHigginbottomAvieAV2085

Padre Pio’s PrayerTheSixteen/HarryChristophersCoro(2009release)

Piano Sonata / In angustiis…I / Birthday Present / Barncleupédie / Lumen Christi / for Ian / A Cecilian Variation for JfK / AngelSimonSmithDelphianDCD34010

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HY Quickening / The Sacrifice: Three Interludes

TheHilliardEnsemble/CityofBirminghamSymphonyChorusandYouthChorus/BBCPhilharmonic/JamesMacMillanChandosCHAN10494(2009release)

Raising Sparks / Piano Sonata / for Ian / Birthday Present / BarncleupédieJeanRigby/NashEnsemble/MartynBrabbins/JohnYorkBlackBox1067

A Scotch Bestiary / Piano Concerto No.2WayneMarshall/BBCPhilharmonic/JamesMacMillanChandosCHAN10377

Seven Last Words from the Cross / On the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin / Te Deum BrittenSinfonia/Polyphony/StephenLaytonHyperionCDA67460/SACDA67460

St John PassionChristopherMaltman/LondonSymphonyOrchestraandChorus/ColinDavisLSOLiveCD0671;download0171(2009release)

Symphony: ‘Vigil’BBCScottishSymphonyOrchestra/FineArtsBrassEnsemble/OsmoVänskäBIS990

Symphony No.2 / Cumnock fair / SinfoniettaGraemeMcNaught/ScottishChamberOrchestra/JamesMacMillanBIS1119

Symphony No.3: ‘Silence’ / The Confession of Isobel GowdieBBCPhilharmonic/JamesMacMillanChandosCHAN10275

Tenebrae Responsories / Missa Brevis / Strathclyde MotetsCappellaNova/AlanTavenerLinnCKD301

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They Saw the Stone had been Rolled AwayScottishChamberOrchestra/JosephSwensenBIS1019

Veni, Veni, Emmanuel / After the Tryst / …as others see us… / Three Dawn Rituals / UntoldEvelynGlennie/ScottishChamberOrchestra/Jukka-PekkaSaraste/RuthCrouch/JamesMacMillanRCA828766428520

Veni, Veni, Emmanuel / TrystColinCurrie/UlsterOrchestra/TakuoYuasaNaxos8.554167

Visitatio Sepulchri / Sun-DogsNetherlandsRadioChoir/JamesMacMillanBIS(2009release)

Why is this night different? / Tuireadh / Visions of a November Spring / MementoRobertPlane/EmperorStringQuartetBIS1269

The World’s Ransoming / The Confession of Isobel GowdieLondonSymphonyOrchestra/ColinDavisLSOLive0124

The World’s Ransoming / Cello ConcertoRaphaelWallfisch/BBCScottishSymphonyOrchestra/OsmoVänskäBIS989

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1977 Missa BrevisforSATBchorusacappella1979 The lamb has come for us from the House of David forSATBchoirandorgan1981? The Blacksmithforvoiceandclarinet1983 Beatus Virforchorusandorgan The Road to Ardtallaforchambersextet Three Dawn Ritualsforchamberensemble Wedding Introitfororgan 1984 On Loveforsolovoiceortreblesandorgan1985 Piano Sonata St Anne’s Massforunisonvoicesandorgan(orpiano)1986 festival fanfaresforbrassband Two Visions of Hoyforsolooboeandensemble1987 Two MovementsforWindQuintet1987/91 Untoldforwindquintet1988 After the Trystforviolinandpiano Búsquedaforspeaker,actors,sopranosandensemble Into the fermentforensembleandorchestra Variation on Johnny faa’forsoprano,flute,celloandharp1988/91 Visions of a November Spring(StringQuartetNo.1)1989 Trystfororchestra Cantos Sagradosforchorusandorganororchestra The Exorcism of Rio Sumpúlformixedensembleor chamberorchestra1990 The BerserkingConcertoforpianoandorchestra ...as others see us...formixedensemble The Confession of Isobel Gowdiefororchestra Sowetan Springforwindband Catherine’s Lullabiesforchorus,brassandpercussion1991 Scots Songforsopranoandquintetorpiano Tuireadhforclarinetandstringquartet(orstringorchestra) Divo Aloysio Sacrumforchoirandorgan(optional) A Cecilian Variation for J.f.Kforpiano intercessionfor3oboesor3saxophones Sinfoniettafororchestraorchamberorchestra1992 Veni, Veni, EmmanuelConcertoforpercussionandorchestra Barncleupédieforpiano So Deepforchoruswithoptionaloboeandviolasolos1992-93 Visitatio Sepulchrifor7singersorchorusandchamber orchestra

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Angelforpiano ...here in hiding...for4malevoicesorunaccompaniedchoir They saw the stone had been rolled awayFanfarefor brassandpercussion Memoire imperialefororchestra Seven Last Words from the CrossCantataforchoirand strings Kiss on Woodforviolin(orcello)andpiano1994 Balladforvoiceandpiano Britanniafororchestra Mementoforstringquartet Christus Vincitforacappellachoir White Note Paraphrasefororgan1994-95 Adam’s Ribforbrassquintet1995 Màirifor16-partunaccompaniedchoir The Childrenformediumvoiceandpiano A Different Worldforviolinandpiano1991-95 Inés de CastroOperaintwoacts1995 Seinte Mari moder mildeforSATBchorusandorgan1995-96 The World’s Ransomingfororchestra,withconcertante coranglais1996 Cello Concerto A Child’s Prayerfortwotreblesoloistsandchoiracappella The Galloway Massforcongregation,choir(orcantor)and organ The Halie Speerit’s Dancersforchildren’schoirorvoice andpiano

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andorgan NinianConcertoforclarinetandorchestra Í (A Meditation on Iona)forstringsandpercussion1997 fourteen Little Picturesforpianotrio The Gallant WeaverforSATBchorusacappella Lumen Christiforsolopiano Symphony: ‘Vigil’fororchestra The Prophecyforsopranoandensembleorschoolchoir andinstruments Raising SparksSixsongsformezzoandensemble Changedformixedchorusandorgan,harporstringtrio A New SongforSATBchorusandorgan Birthday Presentforpianosolo1998 Exsultetforbrassandpercussion Quickeningforvocalensemble,children’schoir,SATBchoir andorchestra Why is this night different?(StringQuartetNo.2) Gaudeamus in loci pacefororgansolo1999 Symphony No.2forchamberorchestra The Company of Heavenforchildren’svoicesandorganor ensemble Cello Sonata No.1forcelloandpiano Cumnock fairforpianosextet,orstringorchestraandpiano Heyoka Te Deumfor3-parttreblevoices,flute,tubularbells andpiano1999/2001MagnificatforSATBchoirandorganororchestra2000 ParthenogenesisScenaforsoprano,baritone,actressand chamberorchestra Cello Sonata No.2forcelloandpiano MassforSATBchorusandorgan Laudi alla Vergine Mariaforchorusacappella from Gallowayforsoloclarinet for Ianforsolopiano Northern SkiesSevenintermediatepiecesforcelloandpiano2000/01 Nunc DimittisforSATBchoirandorganororchestra2001 The Birds of RhiannonTone-poemfororchestrawith optionalchorus(SATB) Te DeumforSATBchoirandorgan Dutch Carolforunisontreblevoicesandpiano Tremunt videntes angeliforSATBchoiracappella in angustiis… Iforsolopiano2001-02 in angustiis… IIforsolocello,oboeorsoprano A Deep but Dazzling Darknessforsoloviolin,ensemble andtape

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O bone jesuforchorusacappella To My SuccessorforSATBchorusacappella 25th May 1967forsolopiano for Neilforsolopiano2003 Piano Concerto No.2forpianoandstringorchestra Le Tombeau de Georges Rouaultforsoloorgan Chosenforchoirandorgan Give me Justiceforchorusacappella2003-04 A Scotch Bestiaryfororganandorchestra2004 for Maxforpianoquintet for Michaelforpianoquintet HB to MBforsolocello *Give me Justice, O Godforunisonvoices *Gospel Acclamationforunisonvoices *The Lord is my life and my helpforunisonvoices *Remember your mercies, Lordforunisonvoices2005 from Ayrshireforviolinandorchestraorpiano Nemo te condemnavitforSATBchorusacappella *Bless the Lord, my soulforSATBchoir *The Lord is my Shepherdforunisonvoicesandorgan *Out of the depthsforSATBchoiracappella *The Spirit of the LordforSATBchoir *When he calls to me, I will answerforunisonvoices2005-06 The SacrificeOperainthreeacts The Sacrifice: Three Interludesfororchestra2005-07 The Strathclyde MotetsforSATBchorusacappella2006 Stomp (with fate and Elvira)concertoverturefororchestra Sun-Dogsforchorusacappella Tenebrae Responsoriesforchorusacappella for Sallyforpianoquintet InvocationforSATBchorusacappella After Virtueforchorusacappella SuccessforSATBchorusacappella *Bless the Lord, my soulforunisonvoices *Let the sons of Israel sayforSATBchoir *O Lord, you had just causeforunisonvoices2007 Horn Quintetforhornandstringquartet St John Passionforsolobaritone,chorusandorchestra String Quartet No.3 Chant for Johnforpianoquartet …fiat mihi…fordoublechorusacappella Jebelforbrassband *Our father, Doxology, Acclamation and Great Amen forunisonvoices

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*Liturgicalworksforfuturepublication

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