Miserere

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JAMES MacMILLAN
Miserere
Robert Farley (trumpet) / The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

[ Coro / CD ]

Release Date: Saturday 10 December 2011

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"James MacMillan has always shown a flair for dramatic portrayals of spiritual conflict: light against dark, anxiety and despair against consolation...The Sixteen surmount them all [technical demands] triumphantly, and make a sound of impassioned warmth and pinpoint accuracy."
(Daily Telegraph)

"The Sixteen's uniquely warm and graceful sound certainly seems to have tapped a particularly timeless and atmospheric vein in Macmillan's creative persona and he has here presented them with something which tests not so much their collective virtuosity as their most profround musical instincts...This disc bears testament to a rare and wonderful relationship between composer, choir and conductor."
(Gramophone)

"MacMillan not only imbibes the plainchant tradition of the medieval masters but embellishes it with his own distinctive touches...The Sixteen, directed by Harry Christophers, sing this music as if they really believe in it."
(Financial Times)

"James MacMillan has always shown a flair for dramatic portrayals of spiritual conflict: light against dark, anxiety and despair against consolation...The Sixteen surmount them all [technical demands] triumphantly, and make a sound of impassioned warmth and pinpoint accuracy."
(Daily Telegraph)

"One reason this disc makes such a resoundingly positive impression is that The Sixteen are thoroughly caught up in MacMillan's writing....at every the stage the singers are in focus technically and emotionally...With everything superbly recorded, this is a disc to return to often, and in which to discover new things each time."
(Five Stars BBC Music)

Tracks:

Miserere (first recording)
The Strathclyde Motets: Data est mihi
The Strathclyde Motets: Dominus dabit benignitatem
The Strathclyde Motets: Factus est repente
The Strathclyde Motets: O Radiant Dawn
The Strathclyde Motets: Videns Dominus
The Strathclyde Motets: Lux aeterna
The Strathclyde Motets: In splendoribus sanctorum
The Strathclyde Motets: Benedicimus Deum caeli
O bone Jesu
Tenebrae Responsories