MacMillan - Miserere
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Choral » Anthems & Motets
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In Sorrow's Footsteps
Music by Gabriel Jackson, Palestrina, Allegri and James MacMillan
The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery
The sharp, jabbing gestures at the opening of Gabriel Jackson’s new setting of the Stabat Mater…announce that wilting introspection is by no means the composer’s default position in his response... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2018
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Nigel Short understands the theatre inherent in MacMillan’s approach to setting his texts, and he has a firm grasp of narrative, unswervingly attentive to every finely honed nuance…Bach’s irrepressible... —
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there are surprises awaiting you in this new recording … this is a beautiful performance of Allegri’s masterpiece, with a strongly devotional atmosphere to it. Suzi Digby’s tempo gives the music... —
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Ferris encourages his singers to generate a rich, robust texture, abundant in vibrant colour and undoubted excitement. That’s not to say it’s a free-for-all shout. Flexibility is matched by... —
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Whether writing for amateurs or the most virtuosic set of vocal gymnasts, he has the knack of powerfully conveying his musical vision. The Elysian Singers under Sam Laughton comfortably take... —
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Paired religious settings (of the Miserer and De Profundis), including MacMillan's gravely beautiful Miserere. Gleaming work from the sopranos, but overall the impact is a trifle muted. —
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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... —
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Graham Ross judges the spacious juxtapositions of movement and silence exquisitely, the Dmitri Ensemble’s explosion of energy in the third interlude being simultaneously surprising yet entirely... —
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In paradisum
Viktor Olsson, Tomas Icikzonas, Sara Nyberg, Jakob Lundvall, Lisa Alf, Ida Söderqvist, Marie Hagenfeldt, Susan Radif, Sofia Vokalensemble, Bengt Ollén
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