St Luke Passion, James MacMillan.SATB Vocal/Piano score

St Luke Passion
The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke

Vocal/Piano score - KA - mixed choir (SATB), children's choir, organ and chamber orchestra - English
Composer: MacMillan, James
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes, London
ISBN: 978-1-78454-069-2
ISMN: 979-0-060-12978-0
Pages: 168

No.: BH 12978

Scored for chorus, childrens choir, organ and chamber orchestra, St Luke Passion adopts a pared-back focus on choral voices over its 75-minute span. Seeking a more spiritual, inward approach to match Lukes text, the composer eschews settings of interpolated texts as arias and the customary Evangelist and Christ soli: everything is sung by choral forces. A childrens choir grants a measure of innocence to Christ as the sacrificial lamb, emphasising aspects of otherness, sanctity and mystery.

Content

• Libretto
• Prelude
• Chapter 22
• Chapter 23
• Postlude