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ID: MSVCD92104
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: CelloDavid Gorton is a very highly respected British composer whose music is firmly modernist - very difficult to play, but which is also very approachable and accessible. Here Neil Heyde provides a stunning performance of the Cello Sonata and a second version, given a very different interpretation in a live recital. We have the two tiny but intense Caprices for solo violin, a fine work for Piano Trio and the String Quartet Trajectories, a modern model for that genre. All are first recordings, produced and supervised by the composer.
The music of David Gorton first began to receive attention in 2001 when he was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize while still a student. The subsequent commission for the London Sinfonietta, Oblique Prayers, outlined a distinctive and unique sound-world described by one commentator as combining “an acute imagination for delicate timbral invention with a prodigious command of the unfolding of this half-hour ritual drama” (The Independent).
Gorton studied composition with Harrison Birtwistle and Simon Bainbridge. His music can be described as technically demanding for the performers, and for the listener it is complex and challenging - one commentator remarked that it is music in a constant state of restless evolution.
As a soloist and chamber musician Neil Heyde has appeared throughout Europe, and in the USA and Australia. Since the mid 90s he has been the cellist of the Kreutzer Quartet and he now heads the postgraduate programmes at the Royal Academy of Music, where his work focuses on the relationships between performance, composition and analysis. He has commissioned and premiered many solo and chamber pieces and is also dedicated to performing and recording neglected areas of the repertoire.
tracks: Sonata for Solo Cello Neil Heyde String Quartet: Trajectories Kreutzer Quartet Melting Forms Roderick Chadwick (piano), Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin), Neil Heyde (cello) Caprices nos 1 and 2 Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin) Sonata for Solo Cello (2nd, live, version) Neil Heyde
The Kreutzer Quartet includes:
Peter Sheppard Skærved (Violin)
Mihailo Trandafilovski and previously Gordon MacKay (Violin)
Morgan Goff and previously Bridget Carey (Viola)
Neil Heyde (Cello) |
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ID: MSVCD92059
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Cello Collection
METIER's third CD dedicated to the "impressive, thoughtful, entertaining and extremely varied" [Sunday Times] music of Christopher Fox. Fox brings music for solo cello into the modern age - his sometimes microtonic, sometimes lyrical, writing demands especial skill and virtuosity from the performer - ably provided by Lukoszieveze. Fox, for those in the know, is one of the foremost contemporary composers in the UK - see other Metier CDs of his music.
tracks:
Straight Lines in Broken Times/3 chant suspendu Generic Compositions, nos. 3,4, 5 Inner |
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ID: MSV28511
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection:
Instrumental
Cellist Ulrich Heinen has over the years commissioned solo cello pieces from composers Simon Holt, Howard Skempton, and Gerald Barry. He has performed all of them many times, mostly in conjunction with Bach’s cello suites (as demonstrated here) or in connection with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Also included on this recording are two 20th century “classics” - Hans Werner Henze’s Serenade and Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Sonata.
In order that these modern but very accessible pieces receive exposure to a wider audience, they are presented here with five of the six Bach suites - all played on the same cello (at modern pitch). The sixth and final suite is omitted as that asks for a 5-string cello with a top E-string, and have been performed in this manner by Heinen on many occasions.
Ulrich Heinen came to the UK in 1984 at the request of Sir Simon Rattle to become principal cellist of the CBSO. His formidable technique and musicianship have enabled him to further develop his solo career with numerous recitals, concerts and radio broadcasts. He co-founded the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, which is one of Britain’s most important ensembles for contemporary music.
Ulrich Heinen plays a cello by Giovanni Grancino (Milan 1722)
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J.S. BACH:
Cello Suites 1-5 (BWV1007-1011)
B.A. ZIMMERMANN:
Sonata for Solo Cello
HOWARD SKEMPTON:
Six Figures for Solo Cello
GERALD BARRY:
Triorchic Blues
SIMON HOLT:
Feet of Clay
HANS WERNER HENZE:
Serenade for Solo Cello (9 movements, viz:
1 Adagio rubato; 2 Poco allegretto;
3 Pastrorale; 4 Andante con moto, rubato;
5 Vivace; 6 Tango; 7 Allegro marciale;
8 Allegretto; 9 Menuett |
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ID: CC1023
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: CelloIn commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn, Sebastian Comberti plays the two popular concertos, performed using the original chamber-sized orchestration, with the renowned Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
In addition this Cd includes the world première recording of a beautiful recently discovered concerto by Haydn’s contemporary, Johann Zumsteeg. |
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ID: CC1022
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Cello Collection
Subcollection: CelloThe award-winning Chinese/Australian cellist Li-Wei Qin makes his first Cd for Cello Classics with a programme of late 20th C works for unaccompanied cello, and also a specially commissioned work by Ho Chee Kong. This stunning new solo disc shows the formidable Li-Wei at his very best. |
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ID: CC1016
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Cello |
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ID: GMCD7235
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: CelloPhilharmonia Orchestra conducted by Djong Victorin Yu, James Kreger - Cello |
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