Latest News
James MacMillan's St John Passion in King's College Cambridge on Good Friday
The Philharmonia Chorus will be performing the St John's Passion by James MacMillan in King's College, Cambridge, with Mark Stone (baritone), the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, and the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Stephen Cleobury in the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge on Friday, 2 April, Good Friday. James MacMillan's St John Passion is a large scale, dramatic presentation of the passion story. It is scored for two choruses - a Narrator Chorus (to be sung by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge), and Large Chorus (Philharmonia Chorus). King's College Cambridge will be the perfect setting for the work, and this will be the culmination of this year's Easter at King's in which MacMillan's music features strongly. The performance will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, and this will be work's first broadcast performance.
Recent Reviews
Symphony No.2, Mahler (Resurrection),
Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall, London, 11 February 2010
8 / 03 / 2010
'The barely audible “shh” of the chorus in their opening “Aufersteh’n” and “Staub” were like puffs of wind lifting the music from mere mortality and toward the light, and the cymbal stroke and harp glissando at “Was entstanden ist” was hair-raising.'
Peter Reed, www.classicalsource.com
Berlioz - La Damnation de Faust,
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gianandrea Noseda
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 25 April 2009
28 / 04 / 2009
'The choral singing.....had tremendous force and clarity, even when Noseda, in his quest for almost frenzied immediacy, adopted speeds that were close on breakneck. Thrilling, even dangerous stuff, and absolutely outstanding.'
Tim Ashley, The Guardian, 28 April 2009 - 5 stars
