• Publisher Code: BH 12978
  • Title: St Luke Passion
  • Subtitle: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke
  • Compoer: MacMillan, James
  • Instrumentation: mixed choir (SATB), children's choir, organ and chamber orchestra
  • Composition year: 2012 - 2013
  • Duration (mins): 75'
  • Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes, London
  • Publication date: 23/03/2015
  • Edition Type: vocal/piano score
  • Pages: 168
  • Binding: Paperback/Soft Cover
  • Difficulty Level: difficult
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-EAN: 9781784540692
  • ISMN-EAN: 9790060129780
  • UPC: 888680095673
  • Format: sheet music
  • Weight (kg): 0.55
  • Country of manufacture: GB

    • Scored for chorus, children’s 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 Luke’s text, the composer eschews settings of interpolated texts as arias and the customary Evangelist and Christ soli: everything is sung by choral forces. A children’s choir grants a measure of innocence to Christ as the sacrificial lamb, emphasising aspects of otherness, sanctity and mystery.

    Libretto - Prelude - Chapter 22 - Chapter 23 - Postlude