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Michael Finnissy - Maldon & other choral works- Exaudi

Michael Finnissy - Maldon & other choral works- Exaudi
ID: NMCD110
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Ensemble

New vocal ensemble EXAUDI makes its CD debut on NMC with a thrillingly intense disc of music by Michael Finnissy. Maldon sets Anglo-Saxon texts of battle for an impressive ensemble of voices, trombones, organ and percussion; other works feature Michael Finnissy as part of a piano duo (in Vertue) and Howard Skempton on accordion (in the setting of Scots poet William MacGonagall's travels, Descriptive Jottings of London).
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New Stock - Sampler No. 5

New Stock - Sampler No. 5
ID: NMCD100
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

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Anthony Gilbert - On Beholding a Rainbow

Anthony Gilbert - On Beholding a Rainbow
ID: NMCD105
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble

Gilbert's entrancing violin concerto, On Beholding a Rainbow, is performed by rising stars Anthony Marwood (violin) and Garry Walker (conductor) with the RNCM Symphony Orchestra, and coupled with Unrise and ...Into the gyre of a madder dance - two new works written for the wind ensemble of the Royal Northern College of Music, where Gilbert was for many years Head of Composition. The disc is completed by the haunting song-cycle Certain Lights Reflecting, which sets evocative texts by Tasmanian poet Sarah Day; it is heard here in a live recording by mezzo-soprano Susan Bickley, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis.
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Blond Eckbert - Judith Weir

Blond Eckbert - Judith Weir
ID: NMCD106
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Choir

Blond Eckbert, Judith Weir's first opera, is based on Ludwig Tieck's folk-like tale of a quiet elderly couple whose secluded life eerily unravels as their fantastical past catches up with them. The music's apparent simplicity, with echoes of Weber's Freischütz - belies its underlying darkness.

Originally released on Collins Classics in 1994.
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Christopher Fox - A Glimpse of Sion's Glory

Christopher Fox - A Glimpse of Sion's Glory
ID: NMCD114
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Ensemble

Exciting new vocal ensemble EXAUDI's second recording for NMC features choral works by Christopher Fox with the common theme of Puritanism, Liberty and dissent. American Choruses is one of the composer’s earliest works, exploring his relationship to an American tradition which includes Ives, Cage and the poetry of Walt Whitman. In A Glimpse of Sion’s Glory, conflicting lines voice the idealisms of protestors including the histoical Levellers' movement and John Milton; and the monolithic Missouri Harmony for solo organ evokes the meditative aspect of Shaker worship. Rendered Account, setting Ian Duhig’s lively political verse on the nature of walls and boundaries, and Open the Gate, with its basis of plainsong, complete the disc.
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Anthony Payne - The Stones and Lonely Places Sing

Anthony Payne - The Stones and Lonely Places Sing
ID: NMCD130
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble

A second disc of Anthony Payne's evocative vocal and chamber works, written for and featuring acclaimed soprano Jane Manning. She is accompanied by the pioneering ensemble she founded, Jane's Minstrels, in these settings of passages from Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders, and Edward Thomas's well-loved poems Lights Out and Adelstrop.

3 - Fenella Barton, violin / Dominic Saunders, piano
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Jonathan Harvey - Timepieces

Jonathan Harvey - Timepieces
ID: NMCD141
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

The works on this disc explore Harvey’s fascination with Eastern philosophies from the ecstatic Indian text of White as Jasmine to Body Mandala.
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Thea Musgrave - Turbulent Landscapes

Thea Musgrave - Turbulent Landscapes
ID: NMCD153
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble

Thea Musgrave's dramatic evocation of JMW Turner's seascapes is coupled with her settings of Burns' poems, 'Songs for a Winters Evening', and the double concerto 'Two's Company', written for Dame Evelyn Glennie and Nicholas Daniel.
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David Matthews: Winter Passions / S. Bickley, mezzo-soprano / S. Loges, baritone / The Nash Ensemble

David Matthews: Winter Passions / S. Bickley, mezzo-soprano / S. Loges, baritone / The Nash Ensemble
ID: NMCD152
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble

This collection of premiere recordings from David Matthews features Terrible Beauty, for mezzo-soprano and seven players, setting both Homer and Shakespeare in a dramatic depiction of Cleopatra; Winter Passions - which sets Pushkin's poems of love and absence - and Marina, a setting of TS Eliot's brooding monologue - both feature baritone Stephan Loges. The disc is completed with the Clarinet Quartet and two String Trios.
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Peter Wiegold: Earth & Stars - M. Maxwell, Juliet Fraser, Martin Butler, notes inegales, Southbank Sinfonia

Peter Wiegold: Earth & Stars - M. Maxwell, Juliet Fraser, Martin Butler, notes inegales, Southbank Sinfonia
ID: NMCD158
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble

Peter Wiegold has spent many years studing Indian and Gamelan music, playing with leading Indian musicians in the Gemini-Bhavan Ensemble and in the English Gamelan Orchestra.
He is currently Professor, Head of Music Research, at Brunel University. In 2007 Peter wrote a highly acclaimed large-scale work for the BBC Proms entitled, He is armoured without for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, musicians from Uzbekistan, the Coldstream Guards, 80 brass players plus solo trumpet and trombone. It was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society large-scale composition prize. Peter’s music is influenced by his strong interest in eastern philosophy, especially Buddhism.
Peter Wiegold’s music is a mixture of fully notated, freely improvised and anything in between - he often allows the performers to participate in the creative process. This is his first portrait recording on NMC.
Works on this disc include the plaintive, pastoral Earth, receive an honoured guest, for cor anglais and strings, inspired by WH Auden’s well known elegy for WB Yeats; the elemental Kalachakra for large ensemble depicting the creation of the universe using Tibetan bells and brass; and the bittersweet, Viennese Earth and Stars, commissioned for the 200th anniversary of Mozart’s death and featuring 4 harmonicas to represent an ancient funeral band, dug up from the soil by future generations.

Kalachakra / notes inégales, Peter Wiegold / Earth, Receive an Honoured Guest: Melinda Maxwell (cor anglais), Southbank Sinfonia, Peter Wiegold, conductor / Les Roses: Juliet Fraser (soprano), Martin Butler (piano) / Earth and Stars / notes inégales, Peter Wiegold
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