While bees delight in opening flowers

Sir James MacMillan (16 luglio 1959): The Gallant Weaver per coro a cappella (1997) su testo di Robert Burns. The Sixteen, dir. Harry Christophers

Where Cart rins rowin’ to the sea,
By mony a flower and spreading tree,
There lives a lad, the lad for me,
He is a gallant Weaver.
O, I had wooers aught or nine,
They gied me rings and ribbons fine;
And I was fear’d my heart wad tine,
And I gied it to the Weaver.

My daddie sign’d my tocher-band,
To gie the lad that has the land,
But to my heart I’ll add my hand,
And give it to the Weaver.
While birds rejoice in leafy bowers,
While bees delight in opening flowers,
While corn grows green in summer showers,
I love my gallant Weaver.

The Berserking

 
Sir James MacMillan (16 luglio 1959): Primo Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra, The Berserking (1989). Martin Roscoe, pianoforte; BBC Philharmonic Orchestra diretta dall’autore.
Originariamente ispirato da una partita di calcio fra le squadre del Celtic di Glasgow e del Partizan di Belgrado.

  1. Eighth note / Corchea = 140 + energico
  2. Quarter note / Negra = 60 [9:10]
  3. Eighth note / Corchea = 104 [22:02]