MacMillan, James - One Equal Music (SATB (divisi) a cappella)

Commissioned for Selwyn College, Cambridge. This is MacMillan’s second setting of the sublime poem by John Donne (1572–1631), ‘Bring us, O Lord God, at our last awakening into the house and gate of heaven’. Whereas the earlier work is composed in a ‘motet’ style, the new piece is more of a meditation, with sustained chordal textures and multiple divisi.