Just a small correction to my comments about the Cello Concerto a couple
of days ago.
I wrote:
>One might expect the concerto to contain some plainchant, but this time
>MacMillan avoids that. Instead, he quotes from a Presbyterian hymn,
>"Dunblane Cathedral".
In fact, the concerto also makes considerable use of the plainchants
"Crucem tuam adoremus, Domine" and "Crux fidelis". Apologies for the
mistake. My thoughts were concentrating on the Dunblane connection.
It's playing on my headphones as I write and I'm in the middle of the first
movement cadenza, which is interspersed with "Crucem tuam" on the brass.
Ian Crisp
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