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ID: SIGCD428
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Opera
Benjamin Bevan
Bridget Cunningham
London Early Opera
Sophie Bevan
Tracks
1. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Sinfonia George Frideric Handel 3.36
2. Organ Improvisation in the style of John Worgan and Handel Daniel Moult 0.59
3. Organ Concerto Op. 4 No. 2 in B flat Major, HWV 290: I. Sinfonia: A tempo ordinario e staccato George Frideric Handel 0.49
4. Organ Concerto Op. 4 No. 2 in B flat Major, HWV 290: II. Allegro George Frideric Handel 4.56
5. Organ Concerto Op. 4 No. 2 in B flat Major, HWV 290: III. Adagio e staccato George Frideric Handel 0.48
6. Organ Concerto Op. 4 No. 2 in B flat Major, HWV 290: IV. Allegro ma non presto George Frideric Handel 3.07
7. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Ye verdant plains and woody mountains George Frideric Handel 0.42
8. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Hush, ye pretty warbling choir! George Frideric Handel 5.43
9. Colin and Phoebe: A Pastoral Thomas Arne 3.34
10. Saul, HWV 53: Dead March George Frideric Handel 3.06
11. The Advice George Frideric Handel 2.10
12. The Melancholy Nymph, HWV 228 No. 19 George Frideric Handel 3.35
13. Concerto for Strings and Basso Continuo No 1 in A Major: I. Adagio John Hebden 1.59
14. Concerto for Strings and Basso Continuo No 1 in A Major: II. Fuga John Hebden 1.55
15. Concerto for Strings and Basso Continuo No 1 in A Major: III. Largo John Hebden 1.33
16. Concerto for Strings and Basso Continuo No 1 in A Major: IV. Allegro John Hebden 3.33
17. L?Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55: As steals the morn upon the night George Frideric Handel 6.12
London Early Opera follow up their debut release (Handel in Italy, Vol. 1) with a treasure trove of music by George Frideric Handel (as well as his contemporaries Thomas Arne and John Hebden) centered on the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens - a carnival of music and entertainments that entertained visitors for nearly 200 years. The booklet notes features images and expert commentaries of the Vauxhall Gardens by author David E. Coke and conductor and musicologist Bridget Cunningham. |
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ID: SIGCD204
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Dante Quartet: Krysia Osostowicz, violin / Giles Francis, violin / Judith Busbridge, viola / Bernard Gregor-Smith, cello |
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ID: SIGCD196
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir
Coro Cervantes is the only U.K. choir dedicated to the classical music of the Iberan Peninsula and Latin America. It was founded in 1995 by Carlos Aransay, under the auspices of the Instituto Cervantes in London. Its repertoire spans a wide variety of music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the 21st Century, with a special emphasis on Romantic Music. Coro Cervantes often performs with distinguished solists and instrumentalists and contributes to the international propagation of Hispanic choral music through its performances, recordings and research. Its repertoire includes works sung in Latin, Spainsh (Castilian). Quechua (language of the Incas), Nahuatl (language of the Aztecs), Mediaeval Galician, Catalan, Basque and even in English. |
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ID: SIGCD194
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Russia's oldest symphonic ensemble, was founded in 1882. In 1988 on the initiative of the orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov became the principal conductor of the most famous national orchestra. So began the 'Temirkanov era', the period of collaboration with one of the most sought-after conductors of our times. He widened the orchestra's repertoire and took them on tour to Europe, Japan and the US where they became the first Russian orchestra to perform at the opening concert of the season in Carnegie Hall. In March 2009 the orchestra inaugurated the recording studio of the St Petersburg Philharmonia with a performance in the Great Hall of Verdi's Requiem which is also available on Signum Classics. Shostakovich Symphony No 7 is the second release with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and we look forward to future releases including Prokofiev's Cinderella. |
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ID: SIGCD193
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Organ Collection
Subcollection: Orchestra
The Philharmonia Orchestra is one of the world's great orchestras. Acknowledged as the UK's foremost musical pioneer, with an extraordinary recording legacy, the Philharmonia leads the field for its quality of playing, and for its innovative approach to audience development, residencies, music education and the use of new technologies in reaching a global audience. Together with its relationships with the world's most sought-after artists, most importantly its Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Philhamonia Orchestra is at the heart of British musical life.
Since September 2008 Salonen has been Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra. In his first season in this role he devised and led City of Dreams, a nine-month exploration of the music and culture of Vienna between 1900 and 1935. The project, which presented the music of Mahler, Schoenberg, Zemlinsky and Berg in its social and historical context, travelled to 18 cities across Europe, culminating in October 2009 with semi-staged performances of Berg's Wozzeck, with Simon Keenlyside in the title role. A series of recordings from the project is being released on the Philharmonia/Signum label, of which Gurrelieder is already available. |
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ID: SIGCD190
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choral and Organ
A true master and exponent of the British choral music tradition, Herbert Howells' compositions and settings are brought to life in this collection of his secular and sacred works. Performances come from the youthful talents of The Rodlofus Choir, led by their director Ralph Allwood.
The Rodolfus Choir is made up of singers aged from 16 to 25 who have been chosen from past and present members of Eton College's summer choral courses for prospective choral scholars. Many members of the choir are choral scholars, some are at music college, and most hope to make a career in music. Ralph Allwood founded the choir in 1984, and has been Precentor and Director of Music at Eton since 1985. We have released two very well received discs with the choir previously - one of choral arrangements by Clytus Gottwald, and another of Vespers by Monteverdi. |
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ID: SIGCD344
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Choir
Nigel Short
Tenebrae
TENEBRAE RESPONSORIES
TOMÁS LUIS DE VICTORIA (1548-1611)
Feria V in Coena Domini ad Matutinum in secundo nocturno
Responsories for Maundy Thursday Nocturn II
1 Amicus meus osculi me tradidit signa [3.01]
2 Ludas mercator pessimus [2.24]
3 Unus ex discipulis meis tradet me hodie [4.07]
Feria V in Coena Domini ad Matutinum in tertia nocturno
Responsories for Maundy Thursday Nocturn III
4 Eram quasi agnus innocens: [3.31]
5 Una hora non potuistis vigilare mecum [3.05]
6 Seniores populi consilium fecerunt [5.43]
Feria VI in parasceve ad Matutinum in secunda nocturno
Responsories for Good Friday Nocturn II
7 Tamquam ad latronem existis [3.42]
8 Tenebrae factae sunt [4.22]
9 Animam meam dilectam [8.14]
Feria VI in parasceve ad Matutinum in tertio nocturno
Responsories for Good Friday Nocturn III
10. Tradiderunt me in manus impiorum [2.43]
11. Lesum tradidit impius summis [2.55]
12. Caligaverunt oculi mei [6.32]
Sabbato sancto ad Matutlnum in secundo nocturne
Responsories for Holy Saturday Nocturn II
13. Recessit pastor noster [3.31]
14. O vos omnes [3.04]
15. Ecce quomodo moritur iustus [5.29]
Sabbato Sancto ad Matutinum in tertia nocturno
Responsories for Holy Saturday Nocturn III
16. Astiterunt reges terrae [2.10]
17. Aestimatus sum cum descendentibus [2.44]
18. Sepulto Domino [4.41]
Total timings: [72.01]
TENEBRAE
NIGEL SHORT DIRECTOR
Tenebrae return to the sublime music of Tomás Luis de Victoria on Signum with this recording of his timeless Tenebrae Responsories. The works mix the words of the Gospels with other texts commenting on collective suffering written around the 4th century, and would traditionally have been performed as part of a moving service in which candles are slowly extinguished to mark the progress and suffering of Christ that forms the Passion story.
Tenebrae's previous disc of works by Victoria (Requiem Mass, 1605) won the BBC Music Magazine Award for Best Choral Album of 2012 |
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ID: SIGCD342
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Orchestra
Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Orchestra
David Curtis
Huw Watkins
Orchestra Of The Swan
Tamsin Waley-Cohen
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Violin Concerto in D minor
CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN, PIANO AND
STRING ORCHESTRA IN D MINOR
Violin Concerto in D minor
1. Allegro molto [9.12]
2. Andante [7.41]
3. Allegro [5.16]
Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Orchestra in D minor
4. Allegro [18.55]
5. Adagio [9.00]
6. Allegro molto [9.41]
Total timings: [59.42]
TAMSIN WALEY-COHEN VIOLIN
HUW WATKINS PIANO
ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN
DAVID CURTIS CONDUCTOR
Outstanding British-violinist Tamsin-Waley Cohen - described by the late Ruggiero Ricci following a masterclass as "the most exceptionally gifted young violinist I have ever encountered" - performs a fittingly prodigious work by Felix Mendelssohn.
The Violin Concerto in D minor was composed when Mendelssohn was just 13, and has remained popular with audiences the world over since its rediscovery in the middle of the 20th century by Yehudi Menuhin. The work is paired on this disc with Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin & Piano, where Waley-Cohen is joined by British pianist Huw Watkins, all alongside the enthusiastic accompaniment of the Orchestra of the Swan under David Curtis. |
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ID: SIGCD338
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Choir
Libera Nos: The Cry of the Oppressed
Contrapunctus
Contrapunctus
Owen Rees
1. Civitas sancti tui William Byrd [5.02]
2. Libera nos Thomas Tallis [2.08]
3. Super flumina Babylonis Philippe de Monte [5.41]
4. Quomodo cantabimus William Byrd [8.38]
5. Sitivit anima mea Manuel Cardoso [4.22]
6. Laboravi in gemitu meo Martin Peerson [5.29]
7. Miserere mei Deus William Byrd [3.20]
8. Lachrimans sitivit anima mea Pedro de Cristo [5.54]
9. Plorans plorabit William Byrd [5.07]
10. In jejunio et fletu Thomas Tallis [4.54]
11. Salvator mundi Thomas Tallis [2.50]
12. Inter vestibulum Pedro de Cristo [2.33]
13. Infelix ego William Byrd [13.34]
Total timings: [69.33]
CONTRAPUNCTUS
OWEN REES DIRECTOR
Coupling powerful interpretations with path-breaking scholarship, the choir Contrapunctus presents music by the best-known composers as well as unfamiliar masterpieces. Directed by Owen Rees, a specialist in music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the group presents imaginative programmes revealing previously undiscovered musical treasures and throwing new light on familiar works.
This recording explores the musical ‘cries of the oppressed’ from opposite ends of Europe, which include some of the most powerful works composed in England and Portugal during this period by Byrd, Tallis, Monte and Cardoso. The highlight perhaps is the first recording of a newly reconstructed vocal work by Thomas Tallis, Libera nos. This has long been thought to be an instrumental work, and has been recorded as such, but there’s persuasive historical evidence for us to be confident that this is in fact a choral setting of the antiphon Libera nos, and it is performed here with the relevant text restored to the five vocal parts |
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ID: SIGCD336
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Suite No. 1, Op. 72 (1964)
1. Canto primo: Sostenuto e largamente [2.08]
2. I. Fuga: Andante moderato [3.54]
3. II. Lamento: Lento rubato [2.15]
4. Canto secundo: Sostenuto [1.07]
5. III. Serenata: Allegretto (pizzicato) [2.10]
6. IV. Marcia: Alla marcia moderato [3.24]
7. Canto terzo: Sostenuto [1.46]
8. V. Bordone: Moderato quasi recitativo [2.29]
9. VI. Moto perpetuo e Canto quarto: Presto [2.55]
Suite No. 2, Op. 80 (1967)
10. I. Declamato: Largo [3.07]
11. II. Fuga: Andante [3.48]
12. III. Scherzo: Allegro molto [1.47]
13. IV. Andante lento [4.18]
14. V. Ciaccona: Allegro [6.25]
Suite No. 3, Op. 87 (1971, rev. 1974)
15. I. Introduzione: Lento [1.50]
16. II. Marcia: Allegro [1.28]
17. III. Canto: Con moto [1.01]
18. IV. Barcarola: Lento [1.15]
19. V. Dialogo: Allegretto [1.40]
20. VI. Fuga: Andante espressivo [2.09]
21. VII. Recitativo: Fantastico [1.02]
22. VIII. Moto perpetuo: Presto [0.50]
23. IX. Passacaglia: Lento solenne [3.37]
24. (molto simplice) [3.26]
25. Tema ‘Sacher’ (1976) [1.22]
Total timings: [61.16]
Joining several discs from Signum celebrating 2013's Britten Centenary Year comes a new collection of the three Suites for Solo Cello, performed by star UK cellist Jamie Walton. Recorded in the Britten Studio at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, the three suites were dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich, with the passionate third in particular inspired by Rostropovich’s rich and romantic performances of Bach’s unaccompanied suites.
Jamie Walton has established a reputation as a performer who deeply engages with the works he performs and records. Earlier this year he released a new recording of cello concertos by Schumann and Dvorak with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy. |
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