Thursday, October 6, 2016

6-10-2016

NEW MacMillan  CD 

ONYX Classics have just released a CD of 2 works by James MacMillan:
Violin Concerto performed by Vadim Repin, and Symphony No 4, with the BBCSO conducted by Donald Runnicles
Buy the CD on line  here
James MacMillan's violin concerto had its premiere in London Barbican Centre on the 12th of May 2010.
 The concerto was written in memory of MacMillan’s late mother and dedicated to Vadim Repin who premiered the concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev.
The violin concerto was co-commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, the Zaterdag Matinee in Amsterdam, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris.


Watch an excerpt of the MacMillan VC with Vadim Repin at the Proms in 2013  here