Seven Last Words from the Cross with Christ Church Cathedral Choir

For Sir James MacMillan, “beauty is at the heart of our Christian faith”, and few living composers communicate with such emotional directness – taking ancient texts and charging them with a wholly original intensity, wonder and imaginative fire. Composed in 1994 and recorded by Britten Sinfonia subsequently on Hyperion, his Seven Last Words have already become a classic. Britten Sinfonia performs with the choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.