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ID: MSV28523
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble
Sonatina for Oboe and Piano; Three Songs to Poems by Robert Graves (mezzo soprano, recorder and piano); Four Songs (mezzo soprano and piano); Suite from ‘Degrees of Evidence’ (recorder, oboe and viola); Remember (mezzo soprano and piano); Two Stopfordian Impressions (recorder and piano); Sonata for Cello and Piano; Escapades (recorder, bassoon and piano); Walking Cimbrone (bassoon and piano); Harlequinade (recorder and guitar); Mrs Harris in Paris (treble recorder and piano)
This is the third CD in the new Metier series of contemporary lyrical British music - following MSV28520 Music by Veale and Crawford and MSV28522 Pipings and Bowings - Lyrical English Chamber Music by Hurd, Milford & Blackford.
As a further release in our exploration of lyrical English Chamber Music (following MSV28520 - Music by Veale and Crawford and MSV 28522 Pipings and Bowings - Music by Hurd Milford and Blackford) here we have a disc featuring some lovely pieces composed by David Dubery. Being largely self-taught he works in a traditional language preferring miniature to medium sized projects. His music is tonal, rooted in past traditions, and working with dancers and actors has ensured rhythm and movement play an integral part in its composition. |
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ID: MSVCD92104
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Cello
David 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: MSV28516
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Keith Barnard is a British composer whose music, rooted in spiritual exploration, both Eastern and Western, and is what is generically and rather loosely called "New Age" but which description does his thoughtful and deeply felt compositions a disservice. This world premiere recording is finely executed by American pianist Jeffrey Grossman.
Keith Barnard (b. 1950) was born in London, England, and studied composition with Arnold Cooke, a pupil of Paul Hindemith. Barnard’s music is often explicitly linked with healing and color rays, and many of his titles name the colors invoked by particular compositions and their instrumentation and designation.
Though Barnard has composed music for many instrumental and ensemble combinations, music for the piano forms the core of his output. His style draws together diverse influences, including the traditional Romantic pianistic tradition represented by Chopin and Liszt, the colorist French impressionist tradition of Debussy and Ravel, the 20th century mysticism of Alan Hovhaness and, above all, the music and philosophy of Alexander Scriabin.
As an active pianist himself, Barnard has frequently appeared in concert throughout Europe performing his own works for piano. His music for the instrument ranges from short pieces up to The Secret Tones of the Divine Spheres, a one-movement piano work of nearly three hours duration. Besides piano music, he has written a chamber opera, four symphonies, concerti for cello, piano, and organ, and numerous chamber works. In recent years, he has composed a series of organ works at the behest of American organist Carson Cooman, including 'The Purest Silence of the Divine', an evening-length organ cycle.
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K. Barnard:
Nocturne for piano
The Ascended Healing Rays of the Cosmic Light for piano
The Palace of Hsi Wang Mu for piano |
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ID: MJ0401
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Jazz
with: John Edwards - double bass Mark Sanders - drums and percussion Phil Slater - trumpet Tom Chant - soprano saxophone, bass clarinet Clive Bell - shakuhachi, bansuri, pi saw and shinobue flutes Nichola Christie - voices Chris Halliwell - prepared guitar, prepared piano Zoë Lewis - keyboards Martin Reed - violin Maritza Bulcock - viola Simon Wagland - cello Pete Lockett - percussion
Clemo is a composer who integrates jazz with contemporary classical, rock and electronic sources to produce music which is unique and reflective of life. Critical praise has been heaped on Clemo's work from many sources (See artist profile). Philip Clemo plays guitar, keyboards, and electronics with a fine band of musicians.
Language / Altitude / Texture / Temperature / Time / Place / Scale / Direction / Depth / Form all composed by Philip Clemo except: "Place" - Clemo/Chant/Edwards/Sanders "Direction" - Clemo/Halliwell |
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ID: MSV28503
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Master of the Queen's Music, is without doubt one of the most important composers of the current age. This new disc presnets the first new recording of his major work Ave Maris Stella since Max's own Fires of London recording over 30 years ago, and the premiere recordings of three fine and varied works
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Psalm 124 Dove, Star-Folded Economies of Scale Ave Maris Stella |
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ID: MJ0402
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Jazz
CLIVE BELL is Britain’s leading player of the Japanese shakuhachi, and a founder member of Jah Wobble’s Deep Space project. DAVID ROSS was drummer for the instrumental combo Kenny Process Team. But none of this would prepare you for Mystery Lights, their first duo recording. This is a spacious, intimate music, full of colour and melody, exploratory but highly accessible. Many instruments, both acoustic and electronic, familiar and unfamiliar, weave a spell hard to resist. This album was made in collaboration with Walter & Donald the budgerigars. Recorded live at "The Earl of Kilgorlin". CD includes a video playable on any PC.
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Mystery Lights - nos 1-12
Nightflower |
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ID: MSV28506
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Laurence Crane's music is thoroughly contemporary, but has hardly a dissonance in the whole 80 minutes of this CD. His music can be described as super-minimalist, but that would ignore the incredibly fine transitions of harmony and time embedded in his works. Ultimately this is music for the post-modernist age, and it can have no better advocate than Michael Finnissy, himself one of the foremost composers of our time.
Laurence Crane :
20th Century Music
Three Preludes
Blue Blue Blue
Kierkegaard his prelude
Kierkegaard his walk around Copenhagen
Birthday Piece for Michael Finnissy
Jacques Derrida goes to a nightclub
Jacques Derrida goes to a massage parlour
Jacques Derrida goes to the supermarket
Jacques Derrida goes to the beach
Gorm Busk
James Duke son of John Duke
Looking for Michael Bracewell
Andrew Renton becomes an international art critic
Chorale for Howard Skempton
Three Pieces for James Clapperton |
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ID: MSV28505
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano and Clarinet
Following their fine recital of song transcriptions (Voice of the Clarinet - Divine Art dda25040) these fine musicians tackle a wide range of modern music from the post romantic Arnold Bax to the contemporary world of Esa-Pekka Salonen and Salvador Brotons. All of the music is however very approachable and given life and soul in these brilliant performances.
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Arnold BAX: Clarinet Sonata Leonard BERNSTEIN: Clarinet Sonata Alban BERG: Vier Stücke Arthur HONEGGER: Sonatina for Clarinet Salvador BROTONS: Clarinet Sonata, op. 46 Esa-Pekka SALONEN: Nachtlieder |
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ID: MSV28504
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Award winning, highly respected and totaly uncompromising - Brian Ferneyhough is fearless in his quest for new musical structures and boundaries. The works on this CD are masterpieces of the modern age. In "Allgebrah", especially, Ferneyhough demonstrates the inspiration he received from the work of troubled genius artist, Adolf Wölfli, one of whose works we have chosen for the cover art (Courtesy of the Arts Museum, Berne.) Featuring Corrado Canonici, solo double bass (Trittico), Bridget Carey, solo viola (Incipits), Christopher Redgate, solo oboe (Coloratura, Allgebrah), Ian Pace, solo piano (Coloratura) and Julkian Warburton, obbligato percussion (Incipits)
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Flurries Trittico per G.S. Incipits Coloratura In Nomine a 3 Allgebrah |
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ID: MSV28509
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Violin
Paul Whitty works with both amplified and electronic music with ensemble [rout] (CD29001) and with acoustic instruments as in de-coding skin (CD25021). Recently Paul has been engaged in a series of interventions in pre-existing scores - undertaking an almost archaeological examination of the materials found there. Thirty-nine pages filters and re-organises each page of the Henle Edition of Cesar Franck's Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major. Fragments of the Franck can be heard emerging - a single note, a chord, a phrase - from the often stark and simple textures of the surrounding material. This recording is superbly performed by artists who have built fine reputations in the world of new music.
Track list:
Whitty, Paul : Thirty-Nine Pages, for violin & piano (after Cesar's Violin Sonata in A major) |
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