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ID: MSV28507
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: String instrumentsThe three composers featured on this CD are in themselves leading lights of the contemporary music scene in the UK, and their works (of which these are first recordings) very fine examples of the modern string quartet, all extremely accessible.
tracks: John Casken: String Quartet no. 2
Judith Weir: String Quartet
Robert Saxton: Songs, Dances and Ellipses
The Kreutzer Quartet has forged an enviable reputation as one of the Europe’s most dynamic and innovative string quartets. The ‘Independent’ newspaper summed up their playing as ‘Passion, Grace and Steel…’.
They are the dedicatees of numerous works, and over many years forged creative partnerships with composers including Sir Michael Tippett, David Matthews, Michael Finnissy, Judith Weir, and Haflidi Hallgrimsson. They have a particularly strong relationship to a cross-section of leading American composers, having collaborated intensively with the great George Rochberg in the last few years of his life, as long as working closely with figures as Elliott Schwartz, and the prolific symphonist Gloria Coates.
As recording artists they have won critical acclaim for their discs on the Naxos, Metier, and Chandos labels. Their work in collaboration with art galleries has garnered much attention, and large audiences, particularly their annual residency at the Tate Gallery, St Ives. In 2008 they appeared at several Festivals including the Venice Biennale, and the Montpelier Festival. They are ‘Artists in association’ at York University. The performers on this CD are Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin), Gordon MacKay (violin), Bridget Carey (viola), and Neil Heyde (cello).
Of the works presented here there are no other recordings of the Casken and Saxton pieces, and at the recording of these, the composers were present, so it can be assumed they are precisely what the composers actually envisaged when writing the works.
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: DDH27808
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: String instrumentsVery little of Moeran's music was recorded commercially during his lifetime - here is all of it, including Leslie Heward's fabulous Symphony, still considered the definitive interpretation. The superb String Trio is accompanies by two original songs with Heddle Nash, and three folk song arrangements sung by John Goss with the Cathedral Male Voice Quartet. *
This remarkable reissue gathers all of the 78rpm recordings of the underrated British composer E.J. Moeran, including the magnificent performance of the Symphony by Leslie Heward (1897-1943), which had the distinction of being the first recording to be made under the auspices of the British Council. Many consider this to be the definitive interpretation of the work, even in comparison to the recently-reissued Boult performance from the 1970s. For those who've never encountered Moeran's music before, this historical collection will reveal a composer of great eloquence and imagination whose music, especially in the Symphony, reveals the strong influence of both Sibelius and Elgar, with the sweep and passion one finds in Vaughan Williams' symphonic works. |
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ID: MSVCD92026
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: String instrumentsWhile the string quartet is most usually associated with the Germanic traditions, many fine quartets have emanated from a variety of sources in more recent times, and the Catalan area is such. The four quartets recorded here are important becuase they offer a picture of quartet writing outside the main European canon; the four composers are of the generation after the great Roberto Gerhard, who left Spain for Britain in 1939 but whose roots in Catalan music created the cornerstone for this new school of expression.
tracks: Miquel Roger: String Quartet no. 2 (1994) Albert Sarda: String Quartet (1978) Josep Soler: String Quartet no. 1 (1974) String Quartet no. 5 (1995)
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: GMCD7204
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: String instrumentsRecorded: Fairfield Halls, Croydon 6 Janaury, 9-10 September and 9 December 1994
Don Quixote: James Kreger - cello
Sancho Panza: Roger Benedict - viola
Orchestra Leader: Hugh Bean C.B.E. |
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ID: E012
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: String instruments |
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ID: AV2100169
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: String instrumentsF. Mendelssohn - Octet in E flat major, Overture Op. 21 |
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