Blow the trumpet in the new moon

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First line:

Sing joyfully to God our strength

composer

Sir James MacMillan (b1959)

author of text

Bible

Psalm 81

Introduction
English

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.