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Orchestral Works, page 38

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Prime Cuts - Sampler

Prime Cuts - Sampler
ID: NMCD069
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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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Birtwistle - Secret Theatre

Birtwistle - Secret Theatre
ID: NMCD148
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra

Classic recording from the London Sinfonietta, previously released on Etcetera. (NMC makes another deleted disc permenently available.)

Secret Theatre explores Birtwistle’s fascination with ritual and takes its title from a Robert Graves poem.

Silbury Air is stark, menacing, and tense and named after the prehistoric mound Silbury Hill in England.
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John Woolrich - The Ghost in the Machine

John Woolrich - The Ghost in the Machine
ID: NMCD071
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra

Four substantial orchestral works by John Woolrich: The Barber's Timepiece, inspired by a short story by Italo Calvino; the Oboe Concerto, featuring Nicholas Daniel; The Ghost in the Machine, which explores the idea of order sliding into chaos; and the Viola Concerto, which is structured as a cycle of 'songs without words', alluding to Tristan, Mozart's Idomeneo and Cosi fan tutte, Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte and madrigals by Monteverdi.
Editor's Choice: "A strong and individual voice in music of real substance. The fine soloists bring the concertos vividly to life. Well worth exploring."Gramophone 2001
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Judith Weir - The Welcome Arrival of Rain

Judith Weir - The Welcome Arrival of Rain
ID: NMCD137
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

Judith Weir's major orchestral works. including Natural History, Forest and The Welcome Arrival of Rain

Weir’s music - often inspired by her love of nature and her interest in the world around her - is fresh, intelligent, approachable and evocative. Natural History - which she describes as a Taoist Carnival of the Animals-is set to ancient Chinese texts on horses, birds, fish and men and the music hints at an oriental and exotic world and in Moon and Star Weir uses the instruments highest and lowest registers to portray the vast expanse of our universe.
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Love from a Stranger - Film scores by Britten, Gerhard, Lutyens & Bennett

Love from a Stranger - Film scores by Britten, Gerhard, Lutyens & Bennett
ID: NMCD073
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra

Britten's early score for Agatha Christie thriller Love From a Stranger is coupled with scores by Roberto Gerhard - for Lindsay Anderson's intense 1963 drama This Sporting Life - Richard Rodney Bennett's lush, romantic score to The Return of the Soldier, and Elisabeth Lutyens' superlatively creepy music for 60s horror film The Skull.
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Harrison Birtwistle: Ancora - Triumph of Time

Harrison Birtwistle: Ancora - Triumph of Time
ID: NMCD088
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra

While I Am Goya, The Sickle and Remembering Esenin share a common inspiration in Russian poetry of the last century, the Flute Concerto provides a contrast in its neo-Baroque concerto grosso style.
These recordings were originally released on Unicorn-Kanchana in 1983.
Reissued with funding from Arts Council England.
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Julian Anderson - Book of Hours

Julian Anderson - Book of Hours
ID: NMCD121
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Orchestra

Book of Hours combines ensemble and live electronics in a tribute to the glories of late medieval art; it uses electronic sound as (in the composer's words) "an extra colour … rather as gold-leaf might be applied in a Medieval manuscript".

This exploration of other times and sound-worlds is continued in Eden, Four American Choruses and Symphony (inspired by a painting of Lake Keitele in Finland); the disc is completed by Imagin'd Corners, an exuberant showpiece for five horns and orchestra.
Note on Recording (Track 9 "noise")
We would like to point out that the crackling noise present on track 2 of Book of Hours (track 9 of the album) is intentional. The composer's idea was to begin Part 2 of the work as a distorted version of Part 1 (track 8). Julian Anderson has explained to us that he is recreating - with electronics - the surface noise of LPs bought in Eastern Europe before the fall of the Berlin Wall (he has a strong interest in Eastern European music).

1- City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/ Martyn Brabbins, conductor
2, 7 - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/ Sakari Oramo, conductor
3, 4, 5, 6 - City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus/ Simon Halsey, conductor
8, 9 - Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/ Oliver Knussen, conductor
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Anthony Payne - Time's Arrow

Anthony Payne - Time's Arrow
ID: NMCD037S
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra

An evocation of the Big Bang, the music of Time's Arrow traces the expansion and contraction of the universe. Vivid rhythmic invention and glowing harmony contribute to a work of uninhibited and exhilarating momentum.
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Brian Elias - The House That Jack Built

Brian Elias - The House That Jack Built
ID: NMCD173
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Orchestral Works

Brian Elias studied at London’s Royal College of Music with Humphrey Searle and Bernard Stevens and privately with Elisabeth Lutyens.

Brian was born in Bombay (Mumbai) and lived there until the age of thirteen.

His ballet The Judas Tree won an Olivier Award for Best New Dance Work and an International Emmy Award for Performing Arts.

Doubles was awarded the Best Orchestral prize at the 2010 British Composer Awards 2010 ‘Purely as psychodrama, The House is gripping. But what makes it really memorable is the clarity and vigour of Elias's orchestral writing. Humming throughout with perky rhythms, never cluttered, and full of imaginative ideas (including the 21st-century equivalent of the Pizzicato Polka), it struck me as among the best things that the 53-year old composer has penned.’ The Times (2002).

The bold and dazzlingly inventive The House That Jack Built - inspired by the rumbustiousness, games and jeers of the playground - is coupled with the elaborate, intense Doubles (a large orchestral work commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra) and A Talisman, for bass-baritone and small orchestra which is based upon Hebrew text inscribed on a silver 19th century amulet - intended to protect against the Evil Eye - which was given to Elias's mother in 1969 by her uncle, whose family emigrated from Kurdistan to Bombay in the middle of the 19th century.
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L. van BEETHOVEN - Klavierkonzert Nr. 4 op. 58, etc... - H. Knappertsbusch / W.Backhaus, piano

L. van BEETHOVEN - Klavierkonzert Nr. 4 op. 58, etc... - H. Knappertsbusch / W.Backhaus, piano
ID: GM4.0040
CDs: 3
Type: CD
Subcollection: Orchestra

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