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Blow the trumpet in the new moon
First line:
Sing joyfully to God our strength
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author of text
Psalm 81
MacMillan’s blazing ‘choral fanfare’ Blow the trumpet in the new moon was commissioned by The Bach Choir in 2016 to commemorate the 140th anniversary of its founding concert, being the first complete performance in Britain of Bach’s Mass in B minor in 1876. The composer writes:
It is a setting of some joyful lines from Psalm 81, evoking musical instruments and especially the trumpet. I used to be a trumpeter myself and I try here to fuse the sound of the brassy fanfare into a purely choral sound, unaccompanied and full of extrovert and bold figures and passagework.
from notes by Signum Classics © 2019
Recordings
 MacMillan: One equal music & other choral worksStudio Master: SIGCD575Download onlyStudio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available  Beginning with the blazing choral fanfare ‘Blow the trumpet in the new moon’, this programme explores the spiritual and secular texts that have influenced MacMillan over the years, and includes his monumental setting of the Miserere.» More |
 Hyperion sampler - June 2019 Vol. 2FREE DOWNLOADHYP201906BDownload-only sampler  |
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