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Work: Christmas Oratorio

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ComposerMacMillan, Sir James (b. 1959)
PeriodContemporary
Year2018
Work typeChoral
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MelbourneA Classical Christmas

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MacMillan, Bach, Respighi, Berlioz, Handel
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Sir James MacMillan; Choir of Trinity College Melbourne
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Sir James MacMillan delights with his Christmas Oratorio

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MacMillan's large scale choral work offers a rich variety of texts and musical ideas, the composer conducts the BBC Symphony with unerring precision.
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More than cribs and tinsel: MacMillan’s dramatic Christmas Oratorio

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The composer conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Chorus with Roderick Williams and Rhian Lois in Edinburgh's Usher Hall.

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Worthy to sit beside Bach? MacMillan's Christmas Oratorio

The LPO and London Philharmonic Choir are on outstanding form for a new major choral work to tell the Christmas story.
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