James MacMillan: Symphony No. 2; Cumnick Fair; Sinfonietta [Import]

James [2] MacMillan (Composer), James MacMillan (Conductor), Scottish Chamber Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra
• Conductor: James MacMillan
• Composer: James [2] MacMillan
• Audio CD (November 21, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Bis
• ASIN: B0000521W4
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #437,016 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sinfonietta, for orchestra

2. Cumnock Fair

3. Symphony No. 2, for chamber orchestra: I.

4. Symphony No. 2, for chamber orchestra: II.

5. Symphony No. 2, for chamber orchestra: III.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Like a visual 15 days travel through Scotland, easter 2004 !, January 9, 2010

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Trygve Engebraaten - See all my reviews
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This review is from: James MacMillan: Symphony No. 2; Cumnick Fair; Sinfonietta (Audio CD)

Firs of all this is not a romantic pice of music but a modern Simfonietta, but one could visualize it like I did. Sinfonietta begins softly with very plasent ride trough the beatiful landscape of Scotland,in slowly moving and repeating teams. The feeling is pleasant,nice and calm.
After a while you are suddenly interupted by som big jolts as if you have axidetly driven onto a noisy motorway with heavy traffic
outside Glasgow or some other big industrial town.
Allmost brutal and forcefull you can visualize dirty, rough, industrial areas where factory macines are working in a frenetic pace
and and mixed noises come from everywhere and all directions.
Then toward the end a form of climax and we are brought back and into a more countrylike landscape again with plasant and nice
thems like in the begining. Alomst like my 15 days of holliday in Scotland a few years back. Most enjoyable! Recomeded!

Trygve Engebraaten, Oslo, Norway