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ID: SIGCD215
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Choir
The King’s Singers & WDR Big Band, Bill Dobbins (director)
A unique disc from two versatile and distinctive groups of performers: The King’s Singers and and the WDR Big Band perform a new jazz version of JS Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, arranged and directed by Bill Dobbins.
Recorded live in concert last year, this performance captures the timeless and versatile nature of Bach’s work, retaining the integrity of the original whilst presenting it in wholly new setting. Both groups are Grammy award winners; The King’s Singers, famed for their precision and sound, and the WDR Big Band, one of Europe’s leading jazz-ensembles. |
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ID: SIGCD237
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Sacred MusicSubkolektion: Choir
This disc represents a new orchestra partnership for Signum Records with The Orchestra of the Age of the Englightenment, one of London and the world’s leading period-instrument ensembles. Led by Robert Howarth, the recording was made at Kings Place following the orchestras successful 2010 tour of the work.
On the Vespers, Robert Howarth writes: "For me, Monteverdi’s music enhances the text beautifully. It doesn’t matter whether one is religious or not, this music touches the human soul and reflects, sincerely and passionately the true meaning of the texts in the psalms and motets … You don’t need to know what’s being sung to hear that this is a masterpiece. However, it was Monteverdi’s intention to show you his thoughts on the texts and I think it is that intention that drives this music." |
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ID: SIGCD218
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Choral CollectionSubkolektion: Choir
Sophie Bevan (soprano), Clint van der Linde (countertenor), Ben Johnson (tenor) & Hakan Vramsmo, Colin Campbell (baritones)
Rodolfus Choir & Southern Sinfonia, Ralph Allwood
"The B minor" - that phrase alone resonates with gravity in the hearts and minds of those who love as no other the music of J.S. Bach.
This disc sees the Rodolfus Choir at their best, as renowned Bach interpreters, having sung his works across the UK to great acclaim. Following a live broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and performance at Holy Trinity Guildford at the end of 2009, this disc, recorded in the chapel of Charterhouse School, continues their ever-growing catalogue of extraordinary recordings and follows their acclaimed recording of music by Herbert Howells, released earlier this year (SIGCD190) |
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ID: SIGCD265
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Sacred MusicSubkolektion: Choir
The Yorkshire Baroque Soloists and Yorkshire Bach Choir were formed in 1973 as the basis of the famous York Early Music Festival, and have built a firm reputation as one of the finest ensembles in the world in their performance and interpretation of 17th and 18th century music. Under their director Peter Seymour they return to disc with a fine selection of soloists to perform Bach’s Mass in B Minor, BWV 232. |
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ID: SIGCD270
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Chamber MusicSubkolektion: Violin
Shared Ground is a set of works by the British composer Alec Roth, featuring several poems and sung texts by the Indian writer Vikram Seth. The title piece of the same name is inspired by Seth’s poetry following a decision to buy and live in the Old Rectory in Bemerton - the former home of the 17thcentury poet and priest George Herbert. Other works on the disc expand this idea of a shared home or dwelling, with Earthrise - the reflections of Apollo astronauts on viewing the planet from orbit - and Hymn to Gaia.
To hear the interlocking version of Shared Ground and Ponticelli, programme the tracks in the following sequence: 1 - 7 - 2 - 8 - 3 - 9 - 4 - 0 - 5 - q - 6
Ex Cathedra, choir
From its home city of Birmingham, Ex Cathedra has established an international reputation as a leading UK choir and Early Music ensemble. It aims to explore, research and commission the finest choral music and to set the highest standards for excellence in performance and training. Ex Cathedra is known for its passion for seeking out the best, the unfamiliar and the unexpected in the choral repertoire, for its thorough research and for its dynamic performances. Founded by Jeffrey Skidmore in 1969, Ex Cathedra has grown into a unique musical resource, comprising specialist choir, vocal Consort, period-instrument orchestra and thriving education programme.
Ex Cathedra presents a series of concerts in Birmingham, where it is an Associate Artist at Town Hall, and is delighted to receive invitations to appear at festivals and concert series across the UK and abroad. Recent performances have included the Aldeburgh, Aranjuez, Canterbury, Chelsea, Chichester, Edinburgh International, Gregynog, Kilkenny, Lufthansa, Newbury Spring, Paisley, Santiago de Compostela, Salisbury, Stratford, St David’s and Three Choirs festivals.
The group has appeared in Champagne, Poissy, New York, Sagra Musicale Umbra (Perugia) and at the Royal Opera House.
Its education programme is central to Ex Cathedra’s mission. It has delivered its Singing Playgrounds project to over 180 schools across the UK, and to schools in Bangkok and New Zealand. There are plans to deliver Singing Playgrounds training in Guangzhou and Hong Kong in 2012. Singing Medicine has been delivered for over five years at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, and recently started at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital. The group runs its own youth training choir, the Academy of Vocal Music (male and female singers aged 16 and above) and the Junior Academy of Vocal Music (boys and girls aged 7-16), trained by Rebecca Ledgard. |
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ID: SIGCD340
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Choir
Christopher Maltman
Gabrieli Consort & Players
Gabrieli Young Singers' Scheme
John Mark Ainsley
Paul McCreesh
Susan Gritton
Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir
CD1 - 37.20
1. REQUIEM AETERNAM 10.17
REQUIEM AETERNAM Chorus
TE DECET HYMNUS Boys
REQUIEM AETERNAM Chorus
WHAT PASSING-BELLS Tenor
KYRIE ELEISON Chorus
2. DIES IRAE 27.03
DIES IRAE Chorus
BUGLES SANG Baritone
LIBER SCRIPTUS Soprano & Chorus
OUT THERE, WE,VE WALKED Tenor & Baritone
RECORDARE Chorus
CONFUTATIS Chorus
BE SLOWLY LIFTED UP Baritone
DIES IRAE Chorus
LACRIMOSA Soprano & Chorus | MOVE HIM INTO THE SUN Tenor
PIE JESU Chorus
CD2 - 46.45
1. OFFERTORIUM 9.35
DOMINE JESU CHRISTE Boys
SED SIGNIFIER SANCTUS MICHAEL Chorus
SO ABRAM ROSE Tenor & Baritone | HOSTIAS E PRECES Boys
QUAM OLIM ABRAHAE Chorus
2. SANCTUS 10.19
SANCTUS Soprano & Chorus
AFTER THE BLAST Baritone
3. AGNUS DEI 3.49
ONE EVER HANGS Tenor | AGNUS DEI Chorus
4. LIBERA ME 23.02
LIBERA ME Soprano & Chorus
IT SEEMED THAT OUT OF BATTLE I ESCAPED Tenor & Baritone
LET US SLEEP NOW… Tenor & Baritone | IN PARADISUM Boys, Soprano & Chorus
REQUIESCANT IN PACE Chorus
TOTAL RUNNING TIME 84.05
Following their acclaimed recordings of Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts and Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Paul McCreesh has once again assembled the mass forces of Gabrieli Consort & Players and Wrocaw Phiharmonic Choir to record one of the iconic masterpieces of the twentieth-century oratorio repertoire.
The work reflects Britten’s long-held and committed pacifist beliefs. Composed to mark the consecration of a new Cathedral in Coventry, Britten combines the Latin text of the Missa pro Defunctis with nine poems by the First World War poet Wilfred Owen, which vide a moving (and frequently uncomfortable) commentary on the liturgical text. |
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ID: SIGCD422
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Choral CollectionSubkolektion: Choir
The three works on this 2CD set further confirm Chilcott’s status as one of the world’s most popular active choral composers. The Angry Planet was a commission inspired by conductor David Hill for the BBC Proms in 2012, and combines the precision and skill of the BBC Singers and The Bach Choir with the exuberance of a host of young persons and Children’s choirs including The Young Singers, London Youth Choir and Finchley Children’s Music Group. |
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ID: SIGCD367
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Choral CollectionSubkolektion: Choir
“I regard The Veil of the Temple as the supreme achievement of my life and the most important work that I have ever composed.” Sir John Tavener
Signum Records are proud to re-release the landmark recording of Sir John Tavener’s The Veil of the Temple at the start of what would have been Tavener’s 70th year.
This 2CD set captures the concert-version of this epic 8-hour work, composed to last through the night until dawn in the manner of the grand vigils of the Orthodox Church. Combining the psalms of a number of different religious, Tavener skillfully blends together a work that is truly all-encompasing in its scale and spiritual fervour. |
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ID: CLAVES509304-5
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Sacred MusicSubkolektion: Choir
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