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Colin Currie and Sir James MacMillan round off the SCO digital season in Finnish style

By David Smythe, 20 May 2021

A short, tender MacMillan piece, filmic Sibelius and an astonishing percussion concerto from Rautavaara written for – and performed by – Colin Currie rounds off a successful SCO digital series of concerts.

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Perth

21 May 2021

Rounding off the SCO digital season in Finnish style

By David Smythe

Edinburgh

World premiere of James MacMillan’s Fifth Symphony at the Edinburgh International Festival

By David Smythe, 17 August 2019

A happy occasion as the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, The Sixteen and Genesis Sixteen with Harry Christophers conducting in the world premiere of James MacMillan’s Fifth Symphony at the Edinburgh International Festival.

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Edinburgh

19 Aug 2019

World premiere of James MacMillan’s Fifth Symphony at the EIF

By David Smythe

Glasgow

Sir James MacMillan’s 60th Astonishing Birthday Concert with SCO and Chorus.

By David Smythe, 22 February 2019

Sir James MacMillan’s 60th Birthday Concert with SCO and Chorus rediscovers two major seminal works: the dramatic Veni, Veni, Emannuel with Colin Currie and the intense Seven Last Words from the Cross.

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Glasgow

24 Feb 2019

Sir James MacMillan’s 60th Astonishing Birthday Concert

By David Smythe

Glasgow

A modern masterpiece: Scottish première of MacMillan’s Stabat Mater

By David Smythe, 24 March 2017

MacMillan’s Stabat Mater receives its Scottish première with The Sixteen and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Harry Christophers.

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Glasgow

27 Mar 2017

A modern masterpiece: MacMillan’s Stabat Mater

By David Smythe

Glasgow

Scottish Opera's Inés de Castro: shocking and unmissable

By David Smythe, 24 January 2015

James MacMillan has honed his first opera Inés de Castro into an unmissable evening: unspeakably gory but utterly thrilling.

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Glasgow

25 Jan 2015

Inés de Castro: shocking and unmissable

By David Smythe

Glasgow

BBCSSO and James MacMillan Celebrate Commonwealth Day with a Blast.

By David Smythe, 10 March 2014

There is always something special when a piece is performed in the presence of a composer, and even more so when the composer conducts a famous and popular work. James MacMillan conducted the BBCSSO in The Confession of Isobel Gowdie to help celebrate Commonwealth Day in Glasgow.

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Glasgow

11 Mar 2014

BBCSSO and James MacMillan Celebrate Commonwealth Day with a Blast.

By David Smythe

Glasgow

MacMillan conducts new and revisited MacMillan with the BBC SSO

By David Smythe, 11 January 2014

James MacMillan conducted two rediscovered early orchestral works for the first time with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at City Hall, Glasgow.

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Glasgow

13 Jan 2014

MacMillan conducts MacMillan in Glasgow

By David Smythe

Grafenegg

James MacMillan conducts Britten, Vaughan Williams and his own music at Grafenegg

By Zwölftöner, 09 September 2012

The position of Composer in Residence at the Grafenegg festival may as well be called Composer-Conductor in Residence, as the appointments of Tan Dun, HK Gruber, and now James MacMillan have established a tradition whereby the lucky candidates are not only required to be intimately involved with the programming and preparation of their music, but also to stand in front of an orchestra and lead the

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Grafenegg

20 Sep 2012

James MacMillan conducts Britten, Vaughan Williams and his own music at Grafenegg

By Zwölftöner

Amsterdam

James MacMillan's Violin Concerto in the Concertgebouw

By Renée Reitsma, 28 April 2012

James MacMillan’s Violin Concerto was first performed in 2010, but this afternoon, at the Dutch premiere, was the first time he conducted it. It’s quite an extraordinary piece, so full of ideas that you might wonder if he couldn’t have written two concertos instead of just the one. But when it comes to MacMillan, this potential overload of ideas actually works really well.

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Amsterdam

02 May 2012

James MacMillan's Violin Concerto in the Concertgebouw

By Renée Reitsma

London

James MacMillan and Guildhall Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican

By Katy S. Austin, 21 March 2012

With countless accolades in recent years, and his chamber opera Clemency nominated for Best New Opera Production in this year’s Olivier Awards, James MacMillan continues to enjoy a place as one of Britain’s most prestigious living composers – not that this appeared to intimidate the young but highly capable throngs of the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, whom he conducted on Wednesday evening.

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London

23 Mar 2012

James MacMillan and Guildhall Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican

By Katy S. Austin

Basingstoke

Sacrifice and Confessions

By Andrew Benson-Wilson, 24 March 2011

In a musical tour around Great Britain, the dramatic focus was centred on Wales and Scotland, with James MacMillian’s Three Interludes from The Sacrifice: and The Confession of Isobel Gowdie opening and closing the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s concert at the Basingstoke Anvil.

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Basingstoke

28 Mar 2011

Sacrifice and Confessions

By Andrew Benson-Wilson

Brussels

James MacMillan à Koekelberg : Sept Anges et une infinité de miracles

By Valentin Gautron, 22 November 2019

Dans une expérience sonore et visuelle exceptionnelle, le Vlaams Radiokoor illumine la Basilique Nationale du Sacré-Cœur sous la direction de James MacMillan.

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Brussels

23 Nov 2019

James MacMillan à Koekelberg : Sept Anges et une infinité de miracles

By Valentin Gautron