Composer James MacMillan is best known for his rather fervent choral works, but it was with instrumental music that he first came on the scene, and to which he has increasingly often turned. The two works here date from the middle 2010s and give an idea of his contemporary thinking. The Symphony No. 4, a 40-minute work in a single movement with aspects of sonata form, is not exactly an easy listen but rewards close attention and the careful performance given it by the BBC Philharmonic under Martyn Brabbins. It is a bit ...
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Composer James MacMillan is best known for his rather fervent choral works, but it was with instrumental music that he first came on the scene, and to which he has increasingly often turned. The two works here date from the middle 2010s and give an idea of his contemporary thinking. The Symphony No. 4, a 40-minute work in a single movement with aspects of sonata form, is not exactly an easy listen but rewards close attention and the careful performance given it by the BBC Philharmonic under Martyn Brabbins. It is a bit Wagnerian with its four motives laid out at the beginning (representing, MacMillan says, "rituals of movement, exhortation, petition, and joy"), developed, and mixed with quotations from the Missa Dum sacrum mysterium of Renaissance composer Robert Carver. More than Wagner, the work brings Bruckner to mind with its scope and large contrasts anchored by evocations of Renaissance polyphony. The degree of contrast in the Symphony No. 4 may be greater, in fact, than in the more...
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