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Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia is a choral work for choir and orchestra by Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan, setting three verses of John Dryden's ode Alexander's Feast: Or the Power of Music. The European premieres of the work marked the end of Sir Mark Elder 's time as Chief Conductor of the Hallé .
The Violin Concerto No. 2 for violin and chamber orchestra is the second violin concerto by the Scottish composer James MacMillan. The work was composed in 2021 on a joint commission from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra , the Scottish Chamber Orchestra , the Swedish Chamber Orchestra , and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute .
The symphony has a duration of roughly 25 minutes and is composed in three numbered movements.The work is largely build upon MacMillan's 1985 Piano Sonata, about which the composer commented in the score program notes, writing, "The original is 'opened up' to new forms of expansion, sometimes according to colouristic potential, other times to dramatic or even originally unseen potential.
Cello Sonata No. 2 (2000), for cello and piano premièred by Julian Lloyd Webber and John Lenehan at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh on 17 April 2001. Northern Skies (2000), for cello and piano premièred by Catherine MacMillan, Fay Jennett, Rachel Brolly, Alison Jones (cello) and Myra Chahin (piano) at Hutcheson's Hall, Glasgow on 9 March 2001.
Kenneth MacMillan's Royal Ballet production of Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet premiered at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 9 February 1965. [6] Though MacMillan had conceived the ballet for Lynn Seymour and Christopher Gable, for "bureaucratic reasons" Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev danced the opening night, to MacMillan's disappointment. [7]
The Percussion Concerto No. 2 is a concerto for solo percussion and orchestra by the Scottish composer James MacMillan.The work was jointly commissioned by the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and the São Paulo State Symphony.
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the "Big Five" English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).
[1] [2] [3] Canada has produced a number of respected ensembles, including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra , as well as a number of well-known Baroque orchestras and chamber ensembles, such as the I Musici de Montréal Chamber Orchestra and the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir .