MacMillan Archives - Toronto Mendelssohn Choir https://www.tmchoir.org/tag/macmillan/ Canada’s Choir for 130 Years Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:26:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Composer’s Commentary on Seven Last Words from the Cross https://www.tmchoir.org/composers-commentary-on-seven-last-words-from-the-cross/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 19:46:34 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=2966 James MacMillan’s Seven Last Words from the Cross was commissioned by BBC Television and first screened in seven nightly episodes during Holy Week 1994, performed by Cappella Nova and the BT Scottish Ensemble under Alan Tavener.

The traditional text of the Seven Last Words from the Cross is based on a compilation from all four gospels to form a sequential presentation of the last seven sentences uttered by Christ. Composer James MacMillan comments on all seven movements.

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