About

A choral concert for Remembrance Day "to touch your soul and keep you transfixed".

James MacMillan’s war memorial cantata “All the hills and vales along” was specially composed for the festival chorus of The Cumnock Tryst, the festival James founded in his home town in Ayrshire. It is settings of poems by Charles Hamilton Sorley - a Scottish WWI poet. I conducted the premiere of this work a few years ago - it’s scored for choir, brass band, strings and tenor soloist. It’s a wonderful piece, not overly difficult but very skilfully written, as you’d expect, and very moving. The Times’s review of the work stated that it is ‘a work to touch your soul and keep you transfixed’.

Thomas Tallis Society Choir with Regent Brassrchestra of The Sixteen
Directed by Eamonn Dougan

Bernard Hughes                   Perhaps
Cecilia McDowall                 The Lord is good
Kerensa Briggs                     Media Vita
James MacMillan                When you see millions of the mouthless dead
Music for brass band          TBC 

INTERVAL

James MacMillan                 All the hills and vales along for chorus, brass band, string quintet and ​tenor