Macmillan: Piano Concerto No 2, A Scotch Bestiary

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
June 1, 2006
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MACMILLAN, JAMES
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Bbc Philharmonic
    • PERFORMER
      Marshall
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 01, 2006
    • UPC
      095115137727
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 10377
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. The menagerie, caged: The book is opened: Andante —

      Composer: James MacMillan

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Wayne Marshall

      Conductor: James MacMillan

    2. The menagerie, caged: No. 1. Ode to a cro-magnon hyena: Adagio —

      Composer: James MacMillan

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Wayne Marshall

      Conductor: James MacMillan

    3. The menagerie, caged: A page is turned: Tempo I —

      Composer: James MacMillan

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Wayne Marshall

      Conductor: James MacMillan

    4. The menagerie, caged: No. 2. Reptiles and Big Fish [in a small pond]: Largo - Andante - Largo - Andante - Tempo di valse [Allegro] - Andante - Largo —

      Composer: James MacMillan

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Wayne Marshall

      Conductor: James MacMillan

    5. The menagerie, caged: No. 3. Her Serene and Ubiquitous Majesty, Queen Bee: Senza misura: Prestissimo possibile, sempre legatissimo - [ - ] - Adagio —

      Composer: James MacMillan

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Wayne Marshall

      Conductor: James MacMillan

    6. The menagerie, caged: Another page is turned: Tempo I —

      Composer: James MacMillan

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Wayne Marshall

      Conductor: James MacMillan

    7. The menagerie, caged: No. 4. The red-handed, no-surrender, howler monkey: [ - ] - Tempo di marcia —

      Composer: James MacMillan

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Wayne Marshall

      Conductor: James MacMillan

    8. The menagerie, caged: No. 5. Uncle Tom Cat and his Chickens: Adagio —

      Composer: James MacMillan

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Wayne Marshall

      Conductor: James MacMillan

    9. The menagerie, caged: Yet another page is turned: Tempo I —

      Composer: James MacMillan

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Wayne Marshall

      Conductor: James MacMillan

    10. The menagerie, caged: No. 6. Scottish Patriots: [ - ] - [ - ] - Maestoso —

      Composer: James MacMillan

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Wayne Marshall

      Conductor: James MacMillan

    11. The menagerie, caged: No. 7. The Reverend Cuckoo and his Parroting Chorus: [ - ] —

      Composer: James MacMillan

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Wayne Marshall

      Conductor: James MacMillan

    12. The menagerie, caged: No. 8. Jackass Hackass: Prestissimo possibile [moto perpetuo] —

      Composer: James MacMillan

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Wayne Marshall

      Conductor: James MacMillan

    13. The menagerie, caged: The book is closed: Tempo I —

      Composer: James MacMillan

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Wayne Marshall

      Conductor: James MacMillan

    14. The menagerie, uncaged

      Composer: James MacMillan

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Wayne Marshall

      Conductor: James MacMillan

    15. I. Cumnock fair: Fast

      Composer: James MacMillan

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Wayne Marshall

      Conductor: James MacMillan

    16. II. Shambards: quarter note = c. 60

      Composer: James MacMillan

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Wayne Marshall

      Conductor: James MacMillan

    17. III. Shamnation: Allegro [Tempo di reel]

      Composer: James MacMillan

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Wayne Marshall

      Conductor: James MacMillan


Grammy Award Nominee 2006 'Best Classical Contemporary Composition' Composed in 2005 as a specially commissioned ballet score fo New York City Ballet, 'Piano Concerto No.2' comprises three movements: cumnock fair, shabards and shamnation. The work here receives its world premiere recording. It is a highly energetic work - a frenzy of folksong and dance; the first movement, cumnock fair, is a whirling fantasy of eighteenth-century Scottish dance melodies; shambards makes use of Burnsian folksong with fragments of the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor drifting in and out of focus; shamnation is heavily influenced by Scottish folklore, often quite devilish. 'For sheer excitement...this half-romp, half tantrum of a work is hot stuff', wrote The Times. 'A Scotch Bestiary' was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the BBC Philharmonic to inaugurate the new organ in the Disney Hall in Los Angeles. This is a conertante work for organ (an instrument rarely used by contemporary composers) and orchestra, in two parts, and follows in a tradition of musical portraiture to which Elgar, Saint-Saëns and Mussorgsky have made significant contributions.