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ID: NMCD031 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Subcollection: Orchestra Three recordings from 1941, publicly available for the first time following transfer from the original 78rpm discs and lengthy subsequent treatment: the centrepiece is an off-air recording of the American premiere of Les Illuminations with Peter Pears.
1. BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Oliver Knussen, conductor/ Stefan Asbury, assistant conductor
2. London Sinfonietta/ Oliver Knussen, conductor
3. William Howard, piano - Anthony Powers
4. Composers Ensemble/ Diego Masson, conductor
5. Alexander Baillie, cello/ Andrew Ball, piano
6. Mary Wiegold, soprano/ Composers Ensemble/ Dominic Muldowney, cond
7. Mstislav Rostropovich, cello/ London Symphony Orchestra/ Hugh Wolff, conductor
8. BBC Singers/ John Poole, conductor
9. Jane's Minstrels/ Roger Montgomery, conductor
10. Nua Nos/ Noriko Kawai, piano/ Dairine Ni Mheadhra, conductor
11. Jane Manning, soprano/ Jane's Minstrels/ Roger Montgomery, conductor
12. London Sinfonietta | Peter Serkin, cello | Oliver Knussen, conductor
13. Sounds Positive/ David Sutton-Anderson, conductor
14. Martin Robertson, saxophone/ Christopher van Kampen, cello/ The Nash Ensemble/ Oliver Knussen, conductor
15. BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Andrew Davis, conductor
16. Peter Pears, tenor/ CBS Symphony Orchestra/ Benjamin Britten, conductor |
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ID: NMCD033 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble Matthews's The Great Journey, a forceful and panoramic narrative of a 16th-century Spanish expedition to America, is complemented by the scherzo Fuga and Night's Mask, a darkly atmospheric setting of Fernando Pessoa's brooding sonnet. |
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ID: NMCD034 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Clarinet Matthews's The Great Journey, a forceful and panoramic narrative of a 16th-century Spanish expedition to America, is complemented by the scherzo Fuga and Night's Mask, a darkly atmospheric setting of Fernando Pessoa's brooding sonnet. |
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ID: NMCD035 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: Saxophone A collection of electroacoustic works released in collaboration with the Sonic Arts Network, including Jonty Harrison's saucepan-sampling title piece |
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ID: NMCD036 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental A second collection of electroacoustic works released in collaboration with the Sonic Arts Network, including Sarah Collins' appealing and atmospheric Forest Piece |
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ID: NMCD038 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: Piano From romantic rhetoric to tangos, with influences ranging from Bartok to Serbian brass bands, this disc features 18 of White's 130-plus piano sonatas and reflects the wildly individual and eclectic style of this prolific composer. |
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ID: NMCD039 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Subcollection: Orchestra Holloway's richly-layered and steamily impressionistic Third Concerto for Orchestra is an exotic musical picture of South America, which carries the listener from the Great Brazilian Swamp to New Year celebrations in the Bay of Bahia. |
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ID: NMCD043 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble The title piece of this striking collection explores the ideas of love and war present in everyone, while Traum des Saengers, inspired by a 19th-century experiment in music and light, contrasts real and imaginary worlds. |
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ID: NMCD044 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Three works that reflect the exotic and sensuous geometry of Wood's output: the energetic and iridescent percussion concerto, Two Men Meet, Each Presuming the Other to be from a Distant Planet; Phainomena, characterised by meditative, swirling choral textures; and the highly charged concerto for quarter-tone marimba, Venancio Mbande Talking with the Trees. |
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ID: NMCD049 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Subcollection: Orchestra The haunting and atmospheric title work is accompanied by the celebratory Alleluia Timpanis, Bedford's Symphony No.1, and his Recorder Concerto, with soloist Piers Adams. |
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