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Artist:The Dmitri Ensemble · Graham Ross
Title:Seven Last Words From The Cross
Format:CD Album
Label:Naxos
Country:International
Date:30 Mar 2009
Catalogue:8.570719
Barcode:747313071975
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Performers
ComposerJames MacMillan
Orchestra / EnsembleThe Dmitri Ensemble
ConductorGraham Ross
SoloistClaire Lloyd, Gerald Beatty, James Oldfield, John Herford, John McMunn, Laura Oldfield, Mary Bevan, Peter Davoren, Sarah Shorter, Tom Verney


TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
Seven Last Words From The Cross
01The Dmitri Ensemble · Graham Ross Father, Forgive Them, For They Know Not What They DoJames MacMillanRate
02The Dmitri Ensemble · Graham RossWoman, Behold They Son!… Behold, Thy Mother!James MacMillanRate
03The Dmitri Ensemble · Graham RossVerily, I Say Unto You, Today Thou Shalt Be With Me In ParadiseJames MacMillanRate
04The Dmitri Ensemble · Graham RossEli, Eli, Lama Sabachtani?James MacMillanRate
05The Dmitri Ensemble · Graham RossI ThirstJames MacMillanRate
06The Dmitri Ensemble · Graham RossIt Is FinishedJames MacMillanRate
07The Dmitri Ensemble · Graham RossFather, Into Thy Hands I Commend My SpiritJames MacMillanRate
08The Dmitri Ensemble · Graham Ross Christus VincitJames MacMillanRate
09The Dmitri Ensemble · Graham RossNemo Te CondemnavitJames MacMillanRate
10The Dmitri Ensemble · Graham Ross…Here In Hiding… (Version For ATTB Chorus)James MacMillanRate


Notes

Recorded at All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London 27-29 March 2008, produced by John Rutter
Tracks 9 & 10 première recording

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Gill Sans SUBS
14th Apr 2022
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The theme of Jesus' seven last pronouncements on Good Friday has been used by composers over the centuries; probably the best-known is Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze by Joseph Haydn, in which the final words are delivered in a slow triple time with the major key pointing to the ecstatic release from mortal suffering.

MacMillan's Seven Last Words From The Cross was commissioned by the BBC in 1993 with the seven pieces performed on consecutive days finishing on Good Friday. The sequence begins with a repeated figure which forms the basis for the whole series; it ends with the last words on the Cross, set to traditional Scottish lament music, after which the strings represent the failing breaths with a phrase which slowly grows slower and shorter, working through the keys Dorian on E, G major, and C♯ minor. One music critic describes a performance she attended where the finish of the work was followed not by applause but by silence, with members of the audience and the musicians quietly weeping, until they left in silence.

The first movement is "Father, Forgive Them":


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