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ID: SIGCD121
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Choir
After a gap of 10 years, The King's Singers have once again made a full a cappella studio album featuring sixteen stunning arrangements of pop ballads, spirituals and folksongs.
Each track on this album has earned its place because of its great melody and, coupled with the impeccable style for which the group are justly famous, this album will delight its huge worldwide fan base.
The King's Singers' incredible blend and tuning ensures that this is the classiest recording of its genre for a long time. |
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ID: SIGCD151
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choral and Organ
'I Love all Beauteous Things' explores a great collection of works by the British Composer Herbert Howells, featuring performances of some of his lesser-known choral and organ music.
The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin have had a long and prosperous history: they were recorded as having taken part in the first performance of Handel's 'Messiah' in 1742. Since 1972 the new mixed voice choir, lead by Judy Martin, has been highly active with concerts tours and regular broadcasts for the RTĒ and BBC, as well as continuing worship in the cathedral.
Herbert Howells
1 Thee Will I Love
2. Hills of the North
3. I Love All Beauteous Things
4. Missa Aedis Christi: Kyrie
5. Tranquillo ma con moto from Six Short Pieces for Organ
6. Missa Aedis Christi: Gloria
7. Allegro Scherzando from Six Short Pieces for Organ
8. Missa Aedis Christi: Credo
9. Aria from Six Short Pieces for Organ
10. Allegro impetuoso from Six Short Pieces for Organ
11. Missa Aedis Christi: Sanctus
12. Missa Aedis Christi: Benedictus
13. Chorale from Six Short Pieces for Organ
14. Missa Aedis Christi: Agnus Dei
15. Quasi lento: teneramente from Six Short Pieces for Organ
16. This World, my God, is held within your hand
17. Haec Dies
18. A Maid Peerless
19. Sweetest of Sweets
20. O Holy City, seen of John |
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ID: SIGCD150
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir
The King's Singers celebrate their 40-year anniversary with a live BBC Proms performance from the Royal Albert Hall. This disc demonstrates the skill, flair and versatility you would come to expect from a King's Singers performance, sampling the besrt from their vast repertoire. The King's Singers have maintained their place at the apex of a cappella singing and are amongst the world's elite classical performers.
Following this concert The Daily telegraph said "every edge was bevelled smooth" and the Guardian described it as "flawlessly realised". |
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ID: SIGCD144
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir
The BBC Singers, led by David Hill, are the UK's only full-time professional chamber choir, and their repertoire and virtuosic versatility are almost boundless. The BBC Singers regularly work with the BBC's own orchestras as well as a number of period instrument and contemporary ensembles both in concert and in the recording studio.
This disc features the compositional talent of one of the BBC Singer's former members, Judith Bingham. Bingham is considered a talented all-round composer, having written for a variety of different ensembles including symphonic wind ensembles, brass bands and solo instrumentalists, Despite this she is best known for her choral work, in which she has been commissioned by such ensembles as The King's Singers, the BBC Symphony Chorus and King's College Choir, Cambridge, She has won numerous awards including the Barlow Prize for a cappela music and three British Composer awards.
Remoter Worlds
Judith Bingham |
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ID: SIGCD143
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Eletronic Intermezzo
Powerplant encompasses the work of some of the most dynamic young British artists, bringing together the virtuoso percussionist Joby Burgess and live sound engineer Matthew Fairclouch. The musical duo are joined by visual artist Kathy Hinde, creating experimental and challenging repertoire, which includes a video of their combined imaginations.
The repertoire also includes a new take on Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint, first commissioned in 1987 for guitarist Pat Metheny, placing the percussionist against a pre-recorded tape of himself. The pieces by Kraftwerk, widely acknowledged as the pioneers of modern dance music, also feature highly on this disc with arrangements for string quartet and a variety of percussive and electronic instruments.
This disc is an Enhanced CD, and features a short video performance that can be viewed when using the disc in a computer. |
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ID: SIGCD142
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir
A new disc of works by the world renowned choral composer Bob Chilcott. Bob has been involved in choral music for most of his life and since he became a professional composer in 1997 he has had over 100 works published by Oxford University Press. He was hailed by Gramophone magazine as “one of the finest choral composers at work in Britain today.”
This CD includes tracks with The Sirens, an ensemble of young professional women's voices specially created for this recording. Also featuring are a jazz trio with Alexander Hawkins on piano, Michael Chilcott on bass and Dereck Scurll on drums.
The works included here reflect the strong support and interest that Bob’s vocal music generates, with commissions from a wide variety of choral societies, children & youth choirs and professional choruses. |
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ID: SIGCD140
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
The New release from one of Armenia’s leading and most popular music groups.
Following their prior success this year with their first release of Expressia - Armenian Fantasy, Cadence Ensemble expand their recording ventures to Expressia - Tangos and Fantasies.
This new release explores the Tango at its best including works from some of the great Tango writers including Astor Piazzolla and fellow Armenian Narine Zarifian. With innovative arrangements of works by Carlos Gardel, Hector Stampioni and the Fantasy on Themes of Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin. |
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ID: SIGCD138
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Elin Manahan Thomas Juliette Pochin Jon Christos Nick Garrett
Poetry Serenade brings together four top british singers to perform the newest masterpieces from Brian Knowles, based on the work of poets including William Wordsworth, Thomas Hood and Christina Georgina Rossetti. The eighteen songs on Poetry Serenade have been chosen to give the listener an eclectic array of the differing texts and contrasting styles of composition. A disc marvelled with talent, not only from the principle voices but also the RSVP Voices, the Brighton Festival Youth Choir and the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
FOREWORD by ALAN TITCHMARSH Brian Knowles is that rare thing - a composer of great originality who can also write good tunes! This CD is a terrific example of his work in setting some of the nation’s favourite poems to music. Having enjoyed Brian’s work myself for many years now, I’m happy to think that this CD will ensure it of a wider audience. His is a talent that deserves greater recognition and I congratulate him on a tremendous achievement. Alan Titchmarsh MBE
Jon Christos • Nick Garrett Juliette Pochin • Elin Manahan Thomas
The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
RSVP Voices - Director Rob Johnston (Tracks 2, 6, 10, 14, 17)
Brighton Festival Youth Choir - Director Juliette Pochin (Tracks 7, 8, 11)
Conducted By James Morgan |
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ID: SIGCD137
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Cello Collection
Subcollection: Cello
Jamie Walton's latest venture with the Philharmonia Orchestra, led by Alexander Briger, covers two more-contemporary Cello works; Shostakovichʼs Cello Concerto No. 2, and Britten's Symphony for Cello and Orchestra. Jamie Walton is quickly gaining international recognition for his work, being compared to Cello legends Rostropovich and Tortelier.
The Elgar society wrote about Jamie's last disc
“I really cannot praise this performance too highly. For faithfulness to the text, interpretative musicality, accuracy, ensemble and warmth and beauty of tone, Walton cannot be beaten.”
This new disc promises to be every bit as good. |
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ID: SIGCD135
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
Festive Overture
One of Shostakovich’s most famous works originally composed for a concert to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the October Revolution in 1917.
Symphony No. 5
Its position as one of the 20th Century’s most popular and successful symphonic works is beyond any doubt, the triumph was immediate and greeted Shostakovich’s rehabilitation as a truly great Soviet artist.
The Philharmonia Orchestra is widely recognised as the UK’s finest orchestra with an impressive recording legacy. Vladimir Ashkenazy has a longstanding relationship with the orchestra, and in 2000 he was appointed their Conductor Laureate.
Philharmonia Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor |
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