MacMillan - World’s Ransoming, Confession of Isobel Gowdie | LSO Live LSO0124

MacMillan - World’s Ransoming, Confession of Isobel Gowdie

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Label: LSO Live

Cat No: LSO0124

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 7th January 2008

Contents

Artists

Christine Pendrill (cor anglais)
London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Sir Colin Davis

Works

MacMillan, James

The Confession of Isobel Gowdie
Triduum, Part I: The World's Ransoming

Artists

Christine Pendrill (cor anglais)
London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Sir Colin Davis

About

This new title from LSO Live is their first to feature the music of James MacMillan, a composer with whom both the LSO and Sir Colin Davis have a long association. Born in Scotland in 1959, MacMillan has established himself over the past two decades as one of the world's leading composers. His music draws heavily on Catholicism, socialism and Scottish patriotism.

The World's Ransoming was the first of three works commissioned from MacMillan by the LSO in 1996. Inspired by liturgies on Maundy Thursday, it is essentially a haunting concerto for cor anglais, premiered and played here again by the LSO's principal cor anglais and renowned soloist Christine Pendrill.

The Confession of Isobel Gowdie is the work that established MacMillan's reputation and remains one of his most popular works. MacMillan recounts the events surrounding the brutal torture and execution of young woman who in 1662 was accused of being a witch and uses it as the basis for expressing his fear of a new rise of fascism in Europe.

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