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ID: NMCD120
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
William Howard and the Schubert Ensemble in Martin Butler's piano quintet 'American Rounds', and other chamber music, plus Funerailles - Butler's major new work for solo piano - and arrangements of two Scarlatti sonatas.
1 - 5, 9-11 - The Schubert Ensemble
6 - Simon Blendis, violin/ William Howard, piano
7, 8 - William Howard, piano
12 - Douglas Paterson, viola |
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ID: NMCD135
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Howard Skempton’s first full-length disc for NMC - following the best-selling single Lento - is Ben Somewhen. It pairs chamber music performed by BCMG - ranging from solo cello to the exuberant yet very English Chamber Concerto - with choral music sung by EXAUDI, including the dancing, evocative setting of Shelley, The Voice of the Spirits. The title work takes its inspiration from the witty line drawings of Ben Hartley.
This disc contrasts Skempton’s choral works-including the dancing, evocative setting of Shelley’s The Voice of the Spirits and the spiritual Rise up, my love-with chamber music ranging from solo cello (the Suite from ‘Delicate’) to the exuberant, yet very English, Chamber Concerto. |
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ID: NMCD174
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Horn
1 - 2 Goldberg Ensemble - Malcolm Layfield, conductor
3 - 8 Richard Watkins, horn / Goldberg Ensemble - Malcolm Layfield, conductor
Richard Watkins is at the forefront of promoting contemporary music for the horn. He has given premières of concertos by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Nigel Osborne, Magnus Lindberg, Dominic Muldowney, Nicola LeFanu, and Colin and David Matthews.
The Goldberg Ensemble is committed to performing and commissioning new music, particularly by British composers.
This new recording features a collection of works for string ensemble commissioned by the Goldberg Ensemble including Roger Marsh's haunting Canto 1, based on Dante's Paradiso; Nicola Lefanu's lyrical Amores for horn and string ensemble; Anthony Gilbert's Palace of the Winds inspired by the elaborately ornate Hawa Mahal palace in Jaipur and Geoffrey Poole's Crossing Ohashi Bridge, an abstract work inspired by chaos mathematics such as Fractals, Mandelbrot sets, and named after the Hiroshige painting Sudden shower over Shin-Ôhashi bridge, as featured on the front cover of this disc. |
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ID: NMCD163
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Keisuke Okazaki, Jonathan Powell, Esbjerg Ensemble, Christopher Austin
Morgan Hayes' delicate yet manic Violin Concerto forms the centrepiece to this debut release on NMC showcasing his instrumental and ensemble music. Includes his transcription of Squarepusher's Port Rhombus
Morgan Hayes won the Guildhall School of Music & Drama's coveted Lutoslawski Prize in 1995; he subsequently studied with Michael Finnissy, Simon Bainbridge and Robert Saxton.
This is Morgan's first full-length CD.
Port Rhombus is a transcription of a work by drum & bass/electronica artist Squarepusher who appears on Warp Records.
"Morgan Hayes captured an elegiac melancholy in his transformation of Squarepusher’s Port Rhombus" Tom Service, Guardian
This is the first time leading Danish group Esbjerg Ensemble has recorded for a UK label. Morgan Hayes’ delicate yet manic Violin Concerto forms the centrepiece to this debut release on NMC showcasing his instrumental and ensemble music. Included are his transcription of Squarepusher's Port Rhombus, commissioned for the South Bank Centre's 2003 Ether Festival, which captures the beauty and fragility of this experimental drum'n'bass work from 1996; Lucky Speech for solo violin, inspired by a character from Beckett’s Waiting for Godot; a collection of piano miniatures Strides Book I & II; and the dramatic solo piano work Puppet Theatre, which refers to the title of the painting by Paul Klee, featured on the front cover of this CD. |
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ID: NMCD192
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Hallé, Nicholas Collon, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Ryan Wigglesworth, Gerry Cornelius
Tracklisting
1.Hallé & Nicholas Collon - Millennium Scenes, Pt. I: Feroce
2.Hallé & Nicholas Collon - Millennium Scenes: Largo
3.Hallé & Nicholas Collon - Millennium Scenes: Dance
4.Hallé & Nicholas Collon - Millennium Scenes: Interrupted Dance
5.Hallé & Nicholas Collon - Millennium Scenes, Pt. II: Chorale 1
6.Hallé & Nicholas Collon - Millennium Scenes: Intimo
7.Hallé & Nicholas Collon - Millennium Scenes: Berceuse 1
8.Hallé & Nicholas Collon - Millennium Scenes: Grandioso
9.Hallé & Nicholas Collon - Millennium Scenes: Brutale
10.Hallé & Nicholas Collon - Millennium Scenes: Chorale 2
11.Hallé & Nicholas Collon - Millennium Scenes: Berceuse 2
12.Hallé & Nicholas Collon - Millennium Scenes: Coda
13.Birmingham Contemporary Music Group & Gerry Cornelius - Notturno I
14.Birmingham Contemporary Music Group & Gerry Cornelius - Notturno II
15.Birmingham Contemporary Music Group & Gerry Cornelius - Notturno III
16.Birmingham Contemporary Music Group & Gerry Cornelius - As Kingfishers Catch Fire
17.Birmingham Contemporary Music Group & Gerry Cornelius - The Persistence of Memory
18.Birmingham Contemporary Music Group & Ryan Wigglesworth - Chamber Symphony I
19.Birmingham Contemporary Music Group & Ryan Wigglesworth - Chamber Symphony II |
| 22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NEOS10712
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Subcollection: Violin
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ID: NEOS10727
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Subcollection: New Music
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ID: NEOS10726
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Subcollection: New Music
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ID: CHRCD001_2
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
This double-disc set brought both a record label and a composer new to my ears. Thuille, who lived until 1907, was from the Tyrol and a close friend on and off of Richard Strauss. He was a pupil of Rheinberger and as a pedagogue among his own students were Ernest Bloch and Hermann Abendroth. He was a prolific though rather conservative composer and for a time was known for his operas. However, his small fame now lies mainly with his chamber music, as well as a piano concerto and a symphony. His book on harmony was a standard for many years and constitutes his standing in some musical circles.
All four of these chamber works are absolutely gorgeous, full of lovely melody and an almost ecstatic beauty. Thuille’s influences in the Sextet may recall Brahms or even Wagner at various points. There aren’t many good works for wind quintet and piano, and this one should be heard much more frequently. The French horn is very predominant, as it is in much of Richard Strauss’ music. The piano is also given an important role that sometimes expands to almost piano concerto proportions. The Larghetto second movement of the four is especially lovely, with an autumnal sort of sound that reminds one of Brahms. The Vivace finale is a speedy summing-up of the sextet, with already-heard thematic material going from instrument to instrument, and with a good humor thruout.
In the more conservative Trio one may hear influences of Borodin or Franck. Though it has some passages suffused with sorrow, the prevailing mood - especially by the fourth movement finale - is one of joy and good feeling. The two Piano Quintets were composed 21 years apart, the G minor being the early one, dating from 1880. It has a cyclic design in its three short movements, with a prayer-like central slow movement sounding like Brahms. The 1901 Piano Quintet Op. 20 is regarded as the best-known of all of Thuille’s chamber works. Almost 45 minutes in length, it balances a rather traditional approach with plenty of post-Wagnerian chromaticism. Thruout the four-movement work one hears influences of a Richard Strauss-like waltz feeling. The Adagio second movement begins with a chorale-like passage which may remind listeners of Bruckner, as it builds to a massive architectural central climax. The finale brings together some of the previous themes in a hymn-like setting, similar to many of Thuille’s works of this period.
The performances on both CDs are first rate, as are the sonics. This is one of the most enjoyable chamber music collections I have heard in years.
- John Sunier |
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