James MacMillan (b. 1959)

Symphony No. 2

chamber orchestra

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Details
For
chamber orchestra
Product Type
Study score
Author / Composer
James MacMillan
Product number
666841
Duration
24 Minutes
Release Year
2017
Description

Scored for chamber orchestra and dating from 1999, this work is built on MacMillan’s shorter Piano Sonata of 1985. That work was composed during a bitter Ayrshire winter: the composer recalls the barren trees and hard frozen ground of a landscape that was empty and silent but for the harsh, hollow cry from the rookeries. Throughout the three movements the music conveys a mood of elegy, despair and desolation. In Symphony no 2 the original has been ‘opened up’ to new forms of expansion, sometimes...

Content
  • Composer's note
  • Anmerkung des Komponisten
  • Note du compositeur
  • Instrumentation
  • Symphony No. 2

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