Tim Mahon:

>Weeks ago I scribbled the above words on a piece of paper after hearing
>the work on the radio and deciding to try find it.  Finding the paper
>today, I can't find the music!!  A cursory search of the Grove entry
>and other resources in my own library reveal nothing similar (could I
>have misheard Benediction for "Invocation", I ask myself?) and I wonder
>whether it is a movement from one of his stage works or something
>equally grand.
>
>Does anybody out there have enough knowledge of Alexander MacKenzie's
>music to help me out?

It's Benedictus, an orchestration by Mackenzie (small "k") of the third of
his six pieces for violin and piano Op 37, and is to be found on Hyperion
CDA66764 with some of his other toothsome orchestral music played by the
BBC Scottish Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins.  The CD runs 75:49, an added
incentive to buy it.

Richard Pennycuick
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