The Sixteen/Christophers - MACMILLAN:STABAT MATER

Few living composers communicate with the emotional directness of Sir James MacMillan and his belief that �beauty is at the heart of our Christian faith� is profoundly present in his new setting of the Stabat mater. Arguably one of the most powerful poems in the liturgy, only a small number of composers have tackled the Stabat mater in the last 30 years and the musical world has waited a long time for a substantial setting. In James MacMillan�s version we are witness to a new and intensely personal work which encapsulates the power of the poem in a way no other composer has done to date.