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ID: KAI0013142
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Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber EnsembleDufourt’s works typically appear to be something like the slow differentiation of an overarching “structural sound” (Lachenmann), like a “texture which tears apart and grows back together again, albeit with a unified note that prevents the work from disintegrating.” Here, harmonic objects are endlessly weighed, turned over, put under a magnifying glass, stretched, distorted slightly, filtered and rubbed to dust via instrumentation, with the fine line between chord and timbre drifting this way and that. (Martin Kaltenecker)
Includes booklet with texts by Hugues Dufourt and Martin Kaltenecker |
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ID: KAI0013112
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Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber EnsembleDue to the style in which he combines and joins his sonic material, Posadas’ compatriots often refer to his music as “Francophile”. Beyond the Pyrenees and above all in Francophone countries, where many doors of opportunity were opened to him (including by Festival d’Automne in Paris, Agora Festival (IRCAM), Strasbourg’s MUSICA and Brussels’ Ars Musica), the opposite is true: there, he is viewed as a genuinely Spanish composer due to the power and aplomb that emanate from even his more transparent masses of sound.
(José L. Besada)
Includes booklet with text by José L. Besada |
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ID: KAI0012062
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Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber EnsembleThe Austrian composer of Swiss origin considers his art to be a "view over the moving matter 'sound'": Beat Furrer does not develop sounds, he observes them, his music does not unfold dynamically with time, but attempts to rescind it: "No beginning", writes Furrer, "everything is present from the start". "nuun" thus filters out the individual layers of an initially almost impenetrable sound, as when you suddenly discover structures in a monochrome painting upon taking a closer look. Furrer then compares the sound dramaturgy of "still" with an electrical circular saw which when set into operation almost inaudibly unfolds greatest power and energy - until it encounters resistance.
Includes booklet with text by Klaus Haendl |
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ID: CC2001
CDs: 1
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Subcollection: Historical InstrumentsBased in Tokyo, the ensemble "La Fontaine" was founded in l996. Six months after its first concert in October 1996, the ensemble was a prizewinner at the Yamanashi/Tokyo Early Music Competition. In 1998 they participated in the York Early Music Festival in Britain. Two years later, they performed at the International Early Music competition in Bruges, where their performance won the second prize, the audience prize, and an invitation by Philip Pickett to participate in the 2001 Early Music Festival at London's South Bank Centre.
They perform regularly in major cities throughout Japan, including the prestigeous Casals Hall in Tokyo. They have been broadcast several times on Japanese Radio (NHK-FM). This is their second CD.
The CD booklet contains an article (in English, French and German) by Stephen Pettit on the lives of the composers, and also on the social and economic circumstances in which the pieces were written, and for whom. There are more details on the instruments and the players. |
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ID: CC2007
CDs: 1
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Subcollection: OboeThe CD booklet contains a 2,000-word essay by Diana Ambache on the music in the CD in English, Italian and German. The photos include more from the K452 recording session and two entries from Mozart's Catalogue written in his own hand.
Human feeling is always at the centre of Mozart's music, and the collection of oboe works here illustrates this with colour and variety. As ever, Mozart excpresses everything from exuberant joy to deep melancholy, with a profound understanding of the expression of emotion. His paradoxes intrigue us; his humour entertains us; he seduces us with his beauty -and the oboe is an excellent vehicle for all this. The five works on the CD include three originally written for the oboe and two fine adaptations.
The year 1781 was an eventful one for Mozart. As well as having the première of 'Idomineo' on his 25th birthday, he also wrote the Oboe Quartet and Sonata featured here, as well as the Concerto for Two Pianos, K365. In May he had the now famous row with his patron Archbishop Collerado, which resulted in his move to Vienna and a new life as a freelance musician.
© 2003 Diana Ambache
Jeremy Polmear (oboe, cor anglais), the founder of Oboe Classics, is a freelance musician who has performed as a guest player with a number of London's chamber and ballet orchestras including the City of London Sinfonia, the London Mozart Players, Lontano, English National Ballet and The Ambache. He was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and after a Science degree at Cambridge University he spent some time with IBM before turning to music as a career.
AMBACHE CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Sophie Langdon (violin) is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, and leader of the Fourth Dimension String Quartet. She has played concertos with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, among others.
Martin Outram (viola) is a member of the celebrated Maggini String Quartet and a Professor of the Royal Academy of Music. He has given important broadcast premières of works for solo viola by Benjamin Britten and Peter Maxwell-Davis.
Susan Dorey (cello) is principal cello with the City of London Sinfonia, and a member of the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Previously she played with Trio Zingara and Kent Opera.
Helen Keen (flute) is a founder member of the Endymion Ensemble, and a member of the London Mozart Players and the Orchestra of St John's. She plays frequently as guest principal flute with the London Sinfonietta, and the RPO and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Joan Enric Lluna (clarinet) has recorded the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the English Chamber Orchestra and other European Orchestras. He has performed at Festivals in Bath, London, Paris and Perth.
Brian Sewell (bassoon) played for 30 years as Principal Bassoon of the Orchestra of St John's. He has performed on over 250 recordings with all the major London symphony, chamber and period orchestras. He is also a founder member of the Professional Speakers Association.
Susan Dent (horn) specialises in all types of early horns. She is principal horn of the Orchestra Revolutionnaire et Romantique and the English Baroque Soloists. Outside period performance, Susan plays in the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields and the Endymion Ensemble. |
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ID: NMCD001
CDs: 1
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber EnsembleSpectrum, Guy Protheroe
A mystical exploration of the Sanskrit Hymns of the Rig Veda for chamber ensemble and quadrophonic tape by Jonathan Harvey, whose long-standing connections with IRCAM and studies with Pierre Boulez are perfectly demonstrated here. |
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ID: NMCD004
CDs: 1
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber EnsembleThese three major works by one of Britain's most respected composers explore the effects of shifting rhythms, textures and timbres within music that explodes with ideas and events. |
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ID: NMCD111
CDs: 1
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Collection:
Chamber Music
1 - 5 Ensemble 10/10 / Gary Carpenter, conductor
6 , 7, 9 - 43 Ensemble 10/10 / Clark Rundell, conductor-
8 - Pamela Nash, clavichord
Gary Carpenter’s witty and dramatic writing style has featured in numerous films - including The Wicker Man and The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy - as well as on TV, in the opera house and concert hall.
The works on this portrait disc cover his period as composer in residence for the RLPO’s specialist new music group, Ensemble 10/10, and include the increasingly riotous Mozart tribute, Ein Musikalisches Snookerspiel for wind octet; After Braque, a sonic tour de force with a line-up including 2 saxophones, mandolin and accordion; Van Assendelft’s Vermeer, for clavichord; and Die Flimmerkiste - German slang for 'the flicks', a record of a riotous two years spent in small-town Germany. |
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ID: NMCD154
CDs: 1
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber EnsembleAdam Gorb is best known for his award-winning music for symphonic wind ensemble, and this recording features Towards Nirvana - a reflection on the life and teachings of Buddha - as well as the exuberant Scenes from Bruegel, illuminating the painter's depictions of human folly. The recording is completed with Ascent - inspired by Cézanne’s almost Cubist paintings of Mont Sainte-Victoire - and Farewell.
All these works are recorded by the the Royal Northern College's acclaimed Wind Orchestra, conducted by Clark Rundell, Timothy Reynish and Mark Heron.
RNCM Wind Ensemble:
The Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra is recognised as one of the leading conservatoire ensembles in the world: through a unique series of concerts, commissions, broadcasts and professional recordings, the RNCM Wind Orchestra has transformed the repertoire and performance standards of wind ensemble music in the UK. The RNCM Wind Orchestra was the first conservatoire ensemble to be invited to perform at the BBC Proms, and has also performed at Festivals such as Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Huddersfield, Spitalfields, and the Three Choirs, as well as festivals in Holland, Japan, Switzerland and Poland. In 2000 the RNCM was awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education for its outstanding and pioneering work with the Wind Orchestra. |
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