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Stabat Mater: Choir and String Orchestra

Stabat Mater: Choir and String Orchestra

MacMillan, James

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Publisher Price: $55.00

ISBN10: 1784544396
ISBN13: 9781784544393
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes Inc
Published: Nov 1 2018
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.41 Width: 7.11 Depth: 10.21
Language: English
(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). Composed in 2015, Stabat Mater was commissioned by the Genesis Foundation for Harry Christophers and The Sixteen. Scored for mixed chorus and string orchestra, it is a long-awaited sequel to the early masterpiece Seven Last Words from the Cross (1993), for the same forces; indeed, the later work begins with the pianissimo 'dying breaths' with which the earlier score so unforgettably closes. Cast in four movements, Stabat Mater has a duration of 53 minutes. Following the premiere London's Financial Times commented that the composer speaks of a 'painful world of loss, violence, and spiritual desolation'. Both sides of MacMillan are to be found here, the devotional and the painter of bold, dramatic canvases - the former in the ethereal writing for solo and ensemble voices, the latter in the lacerating blows and feverish anxieties depicted in the string ensemble.

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