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ID: SIGCD111 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: ViolinOn first hearing Lou Harrison’s violin concerto, Madeleine Mitchell was entranced by the colourful array of percussion and its juxaposition with the violin’s innate lyricism. Indeed, this description could fit almost all the works featured on this lively, multi-rhythmic disc. Both string and percussion blend in a unique mix of styles from early Andalucian music to a Stravinsky inspired piece, Fragments from a Gradual Process. Complex rhythms from the Ensemble Bash who use rhythms of West African drumming as the core of their playing, combined with Madeleine’s interweaving lines often catch the listener in a moment of surprise. |
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ID: QTZ2055 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: QuartetThis CD features newly commissioned works by some of America's leading composers with the aim of producing "a collection of string quartets that connects the music we make with the American experience and issues of our time".
The second volume of the Ying Quartet's accalaimed LifeMusic series.
The Ying Quartet
Ned Rorem
United States - Seven Viewpoints for String Quartet
August Read Thomas
Eagle at Sunrise
Chen Yi
At the Kansas City Chinese New Year Concert
Jennifer Higdon
Southern Harmony
William Bolcolm
Three Rags |
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ID: QTZ2052 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: String instrumentsAffairs of the Heart
Concerto for violin and string orchestra
Marjan Mozetich
Platch
for violin and string orchestra
Elena Langer
Concerto for Three
for violin, viola, cello and chamber orchestra
Alfred Schnittke
BONUS TRACK (Hard copy CD only - not download)
Sometimes It Rains
for violin and electronics
Ed Bennett
Roman Mints, violin
Maxim Rysanov, viola
Kristine Blaumane, cello
New Prague Sinfonia
West Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra
Mikel Toms, conductor |
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ID: QTZ2049 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Piano and ClarinetDescribed by Humphrey Burton on BBC Radio 3 as "a major new name on the new music horizon", Benjamin Wallfisch's fast-growing list of large-scale orchestral, vocal and chamber works shows him to be a serious composer for our times. Over thirty works have been commissioned to date.
A 2005 commission from Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra was the genesis of the symphonic movement entitled Speed which displays the juxtaposing of extremes in Benjamin Wallfisch's language "great energy contrasted with slow-moving, long-breathed and yearning melody. His first String Quartet was composed for the Belcea in 2001, followed by a second for the Coull. His works outside the concert hall include a major ballet score entitled 21, commissioned by the Rambert Dance Company and premiered at London's Sadler's Wells, and a feature film score for Thomas Vinterberg's and Lars von Trier's Dear Wendy, nominated as "Discovery of the Year" in the 2005 World Soundtrack Awards. From his Opus 1, the luminous and glistening Sudden Light (commissioned by the Manchester Camerata), to his latest works including the stratospheric Escape Velocity, a piece which received its premiere the 2006 BBC Proms, there is a consistent, compelling integrity and a palpable, powerful personality.
He begins a new work by building a strong idea of its overall structure into which he feeds ideas and 'elements which all share the same DNA', and where everything, from the overall rhythmic impetus to the tiniest melodic cell, justifies its existence through its place in a complex network of interconnections. Characteristically, he places emotion at the core of the music, along with a clarity of message that must be communicable, and he taps into a rich and instinctive vein of melody which is both attractive and challenging. Ben's music is, by design, vivid and disciplined, passionate and intense.
He has also built an important parallel career as a conductor and believes that conducting, just like composition, is creative, working to achieve a clearly defined vision that must be communicated with respect and conviction.
Benjamin Wallfisch composer/conductor
Escape Velocity
Concertino
Spectra
Speed
Trio
Requiem
Impulse
Nocturne
Michael Collins, clarinet
Gould Piano Trio
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
O Duo, marimbas
Orchestra of St John's
Jemima Phillips, harp
Trio Tagarela, recorders
York 2, piano duo |
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ID: QTZ2039 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Piano and CelloThis wonderful new album from the rising star of the cello world is both a showcase for Jamie Walton's extraordinary talent and, at the same time, a demonstration of the breadth and beauty of Saint-Saens' writing for this instrument.
Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor, Op 33
Cello Concerto No 2 in D minor, Op 119
Cello Sonata No 1 in C minor, Op 32
Le Cygne ("The Swan")
Jamie Walton, Cello
Philharmonia Orchestra
Alex Briger, Conductor
Daniel Grimwood, Piano |
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ID: QTZ2036 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: ViolinRoland Roberts
An English Elegy
Summer Song
Edward Elgar
Salut d'Amour, Op. 12
Franz Liszt
Consolation No. 3, S. 172 No. 3 in D flat major
Jules Massenet
Meditation from Thais
Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings, Op. 11
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons
Roland Roberts, violin
The City of Oxford Orchestra
Roland Roberts - Director/Violin
Levon Parikian - Conductor |
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ID: QTZ2087 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Chamber EnsembleLeonid Desyatnikov is one of the most successful living Russian composers. The release of Leaden Echo with words by Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the disc’s six works which the composer considers to be amongst the most important of his output. Roman Mints has brought together some of the finest Russian musicians recording today along with the outstanding young British counter tenor William Purefoy.
Main Theme from motion picture Moscow Nights arranged for violin and string ensemble by Roman Mints |
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ID: QTZ2083 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Chamber OrchestraJ.S. Bach and Alfred Schnittke may not immediately strike the listener as obvious musical companions. Yet there are numerous important parallels between the works on this disc. Alfred Schnittke was fascinated with musical heritage; he appropriated earlier styles and musical quotations to create his own unique brand of ‘polystylism’. In the case of his celebrated Concerto Grosso No.1 it was, of course the music of the Baroque on which he relied most heavily. What better way to illuminate Baroque pastiche, than by recording it alongside a work from that era.
J.S. Bach
Concerto for 2 Violins and Strings
(arr. for flute, oboe and strings)
A. Schnittke
Moz-art à la Haydn for 2 Violins and Strings
(arr. for flute, oboe and strings)
Concerto Grosso No 1 for 2 Violins, Harpsichord, Prepared Piano & Strings
(arr. for flute, oboe, harpsichord and prepared piano)
Maria Alikhanova, flute
Dmitri Bulgakov, oboe
Misha Rachlevsky, conductor
Chamber Orchestra Kremlin |
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ID: QTZ2060 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: PianoThe debut disc of Russian pianist Ksenia Bashmet, rising star and daughter of the legendary viola player and conductor Yuri Bashmet makes her solo debut on Quartz, performing two major 20th century Russian concertos - Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No 1 and Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto for piano & strings - as well as J S Bach's Concerto in D minor, BWV1052 with the acclaimed Moscow Soloists under her father’s baton.
J.S. BACH
Concerto No 1 in D minor for piano and orchestra, BWV 1052
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Concerto for piano and strings (1979)
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Concerto No 1 for piano, trumpet and orchestra, op. 35 (1933) |
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ID: SIGCD260 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Chamber EnsembleTide Harmonic is a new work for small ensemble by the contemporary British composer Joby Talbot. With a compositional aesthetic that threads through his classical and concert works, this disc was born out of a collaboration with choreographer Carolyn Carlson originally entitled Eau. A piece for small ensemble of string quartet, percussion, harp and keyboards (celesta, piano and harmonium), Tide Harmonic is described by its composer as: “… a kind of water symphony that, rather than constructing a poetic or narrative programme inspired by man’s relationship with water, instead focuses on the substance itself, the forces that act upon it, and the energy that flows through and from it”. |
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