MacMillan Series Vol.1
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Label: Challenge Classics
Cat No: CC72540
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 23rd July 2012
Contents
Artists
Colin Currie (percussion)Gordan Nikolic (violin)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
James MacMillanWorks
A deep but dazzling darkness (Violin Concerto)I (A Meditation on Iona)
Veni, Veni, Emmanuel
Artists
Colin Currie (percussion)Gordan Nikolic (violin)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
James MacMillanAbout
James MacMillan, one of today’s most prolific, communicative and successful living composers, is also internationally active as a conductor. He became Principal Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic at the end of 2010, and this disc is the first fruit of an initial three-CD recording project.
MacMillan’s musical language is flooded with influences from his Scottish heritage, Catholic faith, social conscience, and close connection with Celtic folk music, blended with influences from Far Eastern, Scandinavian and Eastern European music. He first became internationally recognised after the extraordinary success of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie in 1990 at the BBC Proms - where Veni, Veni, Emmanuel was also premiered, by Evelyn Glennie, in 1992. The concerto has since been performed more than 400 times.
Colin Currie has been the driving force behind new percussion repertoire for more than a decade. Forthcoming commissions include new concertos written for him by James MacMillan, Steve Reich and Louis Andriessen, and he has premiered recent works by Simon Holt, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Jennifer Higdon, Alexander Goehr and Elliott Carter.
The Serbian violinist Gordan Nikolić gave the premiere of A Deep But Dazzling Darkness at LSO St Luke’s in March 2003. A commission from the London Symphony Orchestra, it is cast in a single 25-minute movement and, notes the composer, “offers contrasts in light and shade, celebration and foreboding”. The Times said it is “...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... ”
“He is proving a conductor of daunting ability.” – The Sunday Times
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