MacMillan Symphony No. 4 & Viola Concerto

This excellent coupling from brings together two distinctive scores from Sir James MacMillan, different in character yet both sharing a lack of extra-musical concerns (a major preoccupation) and drawing inspiration from historic musical sources. Echoes of Renaissance composer Robert Carver, a fellow Scot, inform the Fourth Symphony with its assimilation of his ten-voice Missa Dum …

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