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ID: SIGCD335
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Welcome all Wonders: A Christmas Cantata is a large-scale work for choir, organ, and trumpet spanning 15 movements. It celebrates the Christmas story through an imaginative selection and juxtaposition of poetry and liturgical texts, and provides a multifaceted telling of the familiar narrative. The celebratory aspects of Christmas are tainted by darker themes that are inherent to the story but are easily overlooked, culminating in an enlightened and engaging work that explores the Christmas story in a profound manner.
The Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford is among the finest and most active university choirs in the UK. Its wide-ranging repertory includes a rich array of Renaissance and Baroque music and contemporary works.
1. Prelude [4.09]
2. Alleluia [4.16]
3. A virgin shall conceive [5.45]
4. Ye heavens! from high the dewy nectar pour [3.05]
Solo: Jessica Hughes soprano
5. Today is the beginning of our salvation [6.42]
Solo: Esther Mallett soprano
6. Oh! little blade of grass [3.45]
Solos: Jessica Hughes soprano, Esther Brazil alto
Felix Leach tenor, Milo Comerford bass
7. Journey to Bethlehem [9.22]
8. I saw a stable [2.05]
9. Shepherds, rejoice! [2.58]
10. See how from far, upon the eastern road [2.35]
11. Tribus miraculis ornatum [3.19]
Solo: Charlotte Robinson soprano
12. The Slaughter of the Innocents [9.10]
Solo: Sam Poppleton bass
13. But peaceful was the night [4.57]
14. Ave maris stella [7.19]
15. In the beginning [8.25]
Total timings: [77.55] |
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ID: SIGCD334
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Organ
Organ Symphony No.3 in E minor, Op.13 No.3
1. I. Prélude: moderato [8.58]
2. II. Minuetto [5.20]
3. III. Marcia [7.26]
4. IV. Adagio [3.50]
5. V. Finale: Allegro molto [7.50]
Organ Symphony No.4 in F minor, Op.13 No.3
6. I. Toccata [4.09]
7. II. Fugue: Moderato assai [4.10]
8. III. Andante cantabile: Dolce [5.36]
9. IV. Scherzo: Allegro vivace [6.38]
10. V. Adagio [5.28]
11. VI. Finale: Moderato [5.38]
Total timings: [65.01]
JOSEPH NOLAN ORGAN |
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ID: SIGCD332
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Music for voice and guitar by Alec Roth
Alec Roth
Mark Padmore
Morgan Szymanski
My Lute and I (Words by Thomas Wyatt)
1. I. Sigh and Moan [2.33]
2. II. Tell Me [2.41]
3. III. How? [3.48]
4. IV. A Kiss [1.28]
5. V. Wonders [3.06]
6. VI. Out of My Mind [3.11]
7. VII. Tangled [3.11]
8. VIII. Sometime I Sing [3.31]
9. IX. Now Cease [4.22]
10. Invocation [4.40]
(guitar solo)
11. Dark Night (Words by Vikram Seth) [4.50]
Three Night Songs (Words by Vikram Seth)
12. I. The Gift [3.04]
13. II. Heart [3.23]
14. III. All You Who Sleep Tonight [1.34]
15. Autumnal (Words by John Donne) [4.01]
English Folk Songs
16. I. Scarborough Fair [2.01]
17. II. The Brisk Young Widow [2.12]
18. III. The Turtle Dove [3.00]
19. IV. Dance to Your Daddy [1.40]
20. V. Sweet William [2.59]
21. Lights Out (Words by Edward Thomas) [4.21]
Total timings: [65.37]
A lyrical collection of chamber works for tenor and guitar - Sometime I Sing unites Gramophone award-winning tenor Mark Padmore with Mexican guitarist Morgan Szymanski in settings of texts by Thomas Wyatt, Vikram Seth, John Donne and Edward Thomas by the composer Alec Roth.
Roth is a UK-based composer who works across a wide range of musical genres, including stage works, vocal, choral, orchestral, instrumental, and Javanese gamelan - his former posts include Founder/Director of the Royal Festival Hall Gamelan Programme and Southbank Gamelan Players; Music Director of the Baylis Programme, English National Opera; and Associate Composer, Opera North. |
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ID: SIGCD331
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
BBC Singers
Edward Cowie
Endymion
Simon Joly
Stephen Cleobury
Stephen Preston
1. Bell Bird Motet (2011) [8.12]
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury conductor
2. The Soft Complaining Flute (2003) [6.44]
BBC Singers
Stephen Preston baroque flute
Stephen Cleobury conductor
Gesangbuch (1975-6)
3. Herbstlich - Eaves Wood [10.03]
4. Winterlied - Martinmere [10.11]
5. Habichtswald - Spring [8.16]
6. Stimmungsbild - Hest Bank [13.33]
BBC Singers
Endymion
Simon Joly conductor
7. Lyre Bird Motet (2002) [7.14]
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury conductor
Total timings: [64.40]
Edward Cowie’s unique compositional voice stems from his wide-ranging interdisciplinary interests in both the sonic and visual arts, with many of his works inspired by ideas and concepts from artworks and from the natural world. The opening piece of this recording - a 2011 commission for BBC Radio 3 - creates a complex musical tapestry and soundscape from the call of the Australian bell-bird, opening with translations of choruses of several species of Australian frogs.
In 2002 Cowie become the BBC Singers’ first ‘Associate Composer’, marking a relationship between the composer that began in the mid-1970s and continues to this day. |
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ID: SIGCD134
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir
The early music ensemble Gallicantus was born within the ranks of the world-class choir Tenebrae, when five of the choir’s regulars, each with a wealth of experience in the world of consort singing, decided to form a separate group dedicated to renaissance music. Literally meaning Rooster Song or cock crow, Gallicantus is a word from monastic antiquity for the office held just before the dawn. It evokes the renewal of life offered by the coming day.
The group is bound by a shared love of communicating text, and is committed to creating performances which draw out unifying themes within apparently diverse repertoire: To this end they are as meticulous about providing context and insight for audiences as they are about crafting interpretations of the music they love. |
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ID: SIGCD001
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
This disc is the first in a series of nine covering the complete works of Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585). Not for nothing is Tallis known as the "father of church music" - with his colleagues at the Chapel Royal he created most of the church music genres that we take for granted today.
Volume one in the series of nine contains much of the music that Tallis wrote during the reign of Henry VIII. The two early votive antiphons Ave Dei and Ave Rosa open the disc and it concludes with one of Tallis's masterpieces Salve Intemerata.
Unusually for an English composer of the time, Tallis wrote a "parody" mass based on material from Salve Intemerata. Also included are two beautiful miniatures not previously recorded Alleluia: Ora pro nobis and Euge celi porta. This was the first disc to be recorded by Chapelle du Roi and was Signum Records' debut disc in February 1997. |
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ID: SIGCD002
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
This disc is the second in a series of nine covering the complete works of Thomas Tallis.
As the 1540s developed, the Reformation began to take hold and the style of music required from composers such as Tallis altered radically. The large-scale melismatic votive antiphons (for example those on disc 1) were no longer required; the emphasis moved away from Marian devotion to a more syllabic and compact style and, eventually, to settings of English rather than Latin texts. Disc two traces this development from the Jesus antiphon Sancte Deus, to the mass for four voices, the three early English anthems including If ye love me, the Te Deum for meanes and the Elizabethan Magnificat and Nunc dimittis. |
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ID: SIGCD003
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Renaissance
This disc is the third in a series of nine covering the complete works of Thomas Tallis. Not for nothing is Tallis known as the "father of church music" - with his colleagues at the Chapel Royal he created most of the church music genres that we take for granted today.
In chronological terms Volume 3 follows on quickly from the Edwardine music of volume 2 with repertoire written for the Marian reversion to Catholicism in 1553. Here we meet Tallis the composer of music for the old English liturgy in both a modern “continental” style and a self-consciously old fashioned English style.
The music includes the extraordinary seven part mass Puer natus est nobis of 1554 and the similarly-scored motet Suscipe Quaeso. A speculative reconstruction Beati immaculati opens the disc and it concludes with the monumental six part votive antiphon Gaude Gloriosa. |
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ID: SIGCD004
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
The Triumphs of Maximillian contains songs and instrumental music associated with the German court of Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian the first.
The early sixteenth century produced European music of great power and innovation. Tthe best players and composers were increasingly mobile, and were aggressively 'head-hunted' from court to court. Nowhere was the resulting mix of styles and influences more clearly illustrated than at the German court of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian the First. Old and new, polyphony and homophony, national and international, all blend together to produce a repertoire of great variety and richness. In music, as in the visual arts,
Maximilian was a patron of unusual discrimination: the volumes of woodcuts by Dürer and Burgmair, commissioned to ensure that the Emperor's fame outlived his reign, pay tribute to his artistic judgement, whilst the music of Isaac and Senfl, both in his employ, is in itself a great monument to him. |
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ID: SIGCD005
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Phillip II of Spain died at first light on Sunday 13th September, 1598. In this anniversary year we commemorate the death of this most catholic king with music associated with him during his lifetime, and with the sumptuous six part Requiem mass of Jean Richafort that may well have been used at his obsequiries
The programme begins with a motet written by Gombert for the birth of Philip; other motets include one of Infantas' finest works Domine Ostende, and within the context of the mass is included the celebrated Versa est in luctum by Lobo. |
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