James MacMillan's Seven Angels at St George's Bristol, Bristol on Saturday 7th November 2015

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James MacMillan's Seven Angels

Add to my Calendar 07-11-2015 19:30 07-11-2015 21:30 36 James MacMillan's Seven Angels Exultate Singers reveals visions of heaven in this Remembrance weekend concert. A tapestry of works in the first half includes transcendent works by James MacMillan and William Harris and Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei, his own arrangement of his Adagio for Strings. The choir also performs Ian Carpenter's radiant setting of In Paradisum and John Rutter's anthem Hymn to the Creator of Light, an homage to Herbert Howells, full of mystical intensity, which with its iridescent chromatic harmonies is reminiscent of Howells' own music. For the second half, the choir is joined by trumpets, shofars, percussion, harp and cello to perform James MacMillan’s extraordinary new work Seven Angels, a setting of vivid and intensely dramatic text from the Book of Revelation. Commissioned by Ex Cathedra, it was premiered in Birmingham in January 2015. The writing for the instrumental ensemble and choir is brimming with originality, drawing the audience in to the apocalyptic events described in the biblical text, ending with a euphoric chorale with the words ‘Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth’. "[James MacMillan is] a composer so confident of his own musical language that he makes it instantly communicative to his listeners." The Guardian St George's Bristol, Bristol DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St George's Bristol
Great George Street
Bristol
BS1 5RR
England

Saturday 7th November 2015
7:30 PM

Programme

James MacMillan – Seven Angels
Ian Carpenter – In paradisum
William Harris – Faire is the heaven
Samuel Barber – Agnus Dei
John Rutter – Hymn to the Creator of Light
James MacMillan – In Splendoribus Sanctorum

Performers

David Ogden – Conductor
Lucy Wakeford – Harp
Richard May – Cello
Jeremy Little – Percussion
Simon Munday – trumpet / shofar
Ross Brown – trumpet / shofar

Exultate Singers

Programme Note

Exultate Singers reveals visions of heaven in this Remembrance weekend concert. A tapestry of works in the first half includes transcendent works by James MacMillan and William Harris and Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei, his own arrangement of his Adagio for Strings. The choir also performs Ian Carpenter's radiant setting of In Paradisum and John Rutter's anthem Hymn to the Creator of Light, an homage to Herbert Howells, full of mystical intensity, which with its iridescent chromatic harmonies is reminiscent of Howells' own music.

For the second half, the choir is joined by trumpets, shofars, percussion, harp and cello to perform James MacMillan’s extraordinary new work Seven Angels, a setting of vivid and intensely dramatic text from the Book of Revelation. Commissioned by Ex Cathedra, it was premiered in Birmingham in January 2015.

The writing for the instrumental ensemble and choir is brimming with originality, drawing the audience in to the apocalyptic events described in the biblical text, ending with a euphoric chorale with the words ‘Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth’.

"[James MacMillan is] a composer so confident of his own musical language that he makes it instantly communicative to his listeners." The Guardian

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