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ID: NMCD052
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
Anthony Payne, narrator
Elgar's complete sketches for the 3rd Symphony, exactly as the composer left them, are brought to life by pianist David Owen Norris, Robert Gibbs playing Reed's own violin and the BBCSO with a commentary from Anthony Payne.
Birtwistle's awe-inspiring masterpiece is a key work in the development of post-war opera, groundbreaking in its fusion of music, song, drama, myth and electronics. The three discs are accompanied by a facsimile of Peter Zinovieff's remarkable libretto.
GRAMOPHONE AWARD: Best Contemporary Recording 1998 |
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ID: NMCD053
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
Elgar died in 1934 leaving behind the sketches for a 4-movement symphony; the Elgar family's decision to commission Anthony Payne to realise the sketches has produced an astonishing work of truly Elgarian nobility.
Classic CD Award Winner 1998 Gramophone Award nomination 1998 BBC Music Magazine Critics' Choice 1998 The Independent Classical CDs of the Year 1998 The Times Classical CDs of the Year 1998 |
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ID: NMCD069
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
Both Anthony Gilbert's brilliant woodwind writing and his long association with the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester are showcased on this disc, featuring performances by the RNCM's acclaimed New Ensemble and Wind Orchestra, and concluding with the brilliant and playful tribute to Stravinsky, Igorochki. |
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ID: NSCD2005
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano
01. Fratelli d'Italia - Mameli/Novaro - ( 2’40”)
02. La traviata - Verdi - (4’28”)
03. L'elisir d'amore - Lucia Donizzetti - (3’12”)
04. La sonnambula - La Norma - Bellini - (3’19”)
05. La Bohème - Puccini - (2’31”)
06. Inno - Guido D’Arezzo - (1’53”)
Trascrizioni di Giampiero Boneschi
07. Pomp and circumstance - Elgar - (5’03”)
08. Bourrée paysanne - Bartok - (2’58”)
09. Chanson triste - Ciaikowsky - (5’06”)
10. Valse pour les enfants - Strawinsky - (4’09”)
11. Lamento d'Arianna - Monteverdi - (4’38”)
12. Free Bach - Gaslini - (5’58”)
Giorgio Gaslini pianoforte solo |
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ID: QTZ2017
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Anna Leese - soprano (Mary)
Louise Poole - mezzo-soprano (Mary Magdalene)
Andrew Staples - tenor (John)
Colin Campbell - baritone (Peter)
Robert Rice - baritone (Judas)
Roderick Williams - baritone (Jesus)
The years 1898-1900 for Elgar saw the composition of The Dream of Gerontius which represented a new style of oratorio in which a continuous musical flow replaced the customary division into separate arias and choruses.
He embarked seriously on The Apostles in 1902 and the first performance took place in October of the following year at the Birmingham Festival conducted by Hans Richter. Elgar himself conducted performances in 1914 and again in 1922 in Canterbury Cathedral where this performance was given. As with Handel's Messiah Elgar's work was to have been in three parts, though it soon became apparent that it was going to be far too long for one oratorio, and the third part became the starting point for The Kingdom. This piece grew in its turn and the project became one for three oratorios; the first The Apostles, concerned with the apostles' relationship with the earthly Jesus, the second, The Kingdom, with the period after the crucifixion and the coming of the Holy Ghost, and the third, which never came to be written, on Judgment and the Life Everlasting.
Another influence is to be found in Wagner who built up his scores from a pattern of leit-motifs. In his analysis of The Apostles, Jaeger identified and named about sixty such themes, though he came under criticism from Ernest Newman (a leading Wagner authority) for being too obsessional in this respect, and even Elgar himself felt that Jaeger had taken this aspect of the work further than was really justified, since the themes, while being a strong structural element in the music, lacked the immediately identifiable symbolism of Wagner's motifs. The two composers' compositional methods were very different: Wagner completed his libretto first, allocating fragments of melody to particular ideas and incorporating them into the score at significant moments, for Elgar the musical development was pre-eminent he was by nature a symphonic, rather than an operatic composer. |
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ID: QTZ2036
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Violin
Roland 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: QTZ2041
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Music from the Service of Prayer and Dedication to Celebrate the Marriage of TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall
Released to mark the First Anniversary of the wedding of TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, this CD is a record of an extraordinary musical occasion featuring a glittering array of international star, including the Russian mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Semenchuk whose appearance was a "gift" to the Royal couple from the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg.
G.Albinoni: Concerto Op. 9 No. 2 for oboe & strings in D minor: Adagio
P. M. Davies: Farewell to Stromness
E. Elgar: Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20
G.Finzi: Romance for string orchestra, Op. 11
T. Grechaninov: The Creed
E. H. Grieg: Våren, elegiac melody for strings, Op. 34 No. 2
G. F. Handel: Water Music (extracts)
A. Hoddinott: Celebration Fanfare
W. Walton: Henry V - Suite
Philharmonia Orchestra
Christopher Warren-Green, conductor
The Choir of St George's Chapel, Windsor
Timothy Byram-Wigfield, conductor
Ekaterina Semenchuk - mezzo-soprano
Gordon Hunt - oboe
Roger Judd - organ |
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ID: QTZ2058
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Saxophone
David Heath's moving tribute to Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street journalist kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in 2002 by Jihadi extremists.
Featuring music from the HBO Documentary "THE JOURNALIST AND THE JIHADI"
John William Coltrane:
Naima (arr. David Heath)
David Heath:
A Song for Daniel Pearl
Moroccan Fantasy
The Truth Will Set You Free
The Passionate
The Celtic
Gottlieb
Only Love Can Conquer Hate
Naima
Visions of Freedom
Elgar, Edward (arr. David Heath)
Land of Hope and Glory? (based on melody by Elgar)
Elegy for Daniel Pearl |
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ID: RRC1001
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Organ Collection
Organ works from Worcester Cathedral Organ Sonatas 1, 2, 11 Vesper Voluntaries
"Nimrod" "Imperial March" (transcribed). |
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