James Macmillan

St Luke Passion: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to Luke, for Chorus, Children's Choir, Organ & Chamber Orchestra, Vocal Score James Macmillan

The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke. Scored for chorus, childrens 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 Lukes text, the composer eschews settings of interpolated texts as arias and the customary Evangelist and Christ soli everything is sung by choral forces. A childrens choir grants a measure of innocence to Christ as the sacrificial lamb, emphasising aspects of otherness, sanctity and mystery. The Passion narrative is framed by a Prelude exploring the Annunciation