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ID: KAI0012252
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble... As only few other composers, Gérard Grisey was a master at working in these various "altidudes", one who skilfully zoomed back and forth between micro- and macro-time, or, in Grisey's beautiful imagery, between human time and the extended time of whales and the extremely compressed time of insects. and this disposal of time, of the hearing perspevtive - Grisey certainly knew it - affords the music a power that touches on the metaphysical just as the texts of "Quatre chants" do. "Fertilised with time, the music is afforded the power of the sacred of which Georges Bataille speaks; mute and silent forces that invoke and exorcise the sound and its emergence - perhaps and only for a moment. (Peter Niklas Wilson)
Includes booklet with text by Philippe Hurel and Peter Niklas Wilson |
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ID: KAI0013092
CDs: 1
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber EnsembleSabine Lutzenberger mezzosoprano
Klangforum Wien / Sylvain Cambreling conductor
The Stars of Hunger, was composed in 2007. It is based on three poems by the Austrian poet Christine Lavant: “Im rueckgrat aufwaerts glimmt ein licht,” “So also geht erleuchtung vor,” “Zeig an mir die kräuter welche bestärken” and “Lösch aus mein gesicht und führe mich blind.” Rather than set the poems themselves to music, Lang used the text generation program Abulafia to produce from them a cut-up in the tradition of William S. Burroughs. The composition contains only fragments of the poems, but both the invocational gestures and the characteristic language of these lyrical works -“Ginsterlicht,” “Schlüsselblick,” “mondversippt,” “der Schlaf steht duftend und gesalbt”- remain recognizable. Lang augments the four movements devoted to the Lavant poems by an instrumental introduction and two variations on Guillaume de Machaut’s rondo Ma fin est mon commencement. The identification of beginning and an end, as indicated in the text’s title line, shows that repetition was an issue even as long ago as Machaut’s day. But while this line is enough to conjure up an era during which the belief in life after death was still unquestioned (Machaut died in 1377), Lavant’s poems articulate this belief solely via their rebellion against the suffering of living creatures.
Monadologie VII shows us a familiar and yet strange landscape, a musical topography bereft of a dramaturgy; again and again, the musical events grind to a halt, get stuck. In these brief moments of empty repetition, it is as if one could abandon every plan and every objective without the slightest loss. It is such moments that give rise to dimensions within which the difference between present and past transforms itself into a musical experience. (Sabine Sanio) |
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ID: NMCD008
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber EnsembleSimon Holt is one of Britain's most compelling compositional voices, and this disc showcases his earlier writing: Canciones sets Spanish folk lyrics and a poem by Lorca, while ...era madrugada is an enigmatic instrumental work based on another Lorca poem, describing a mysterious death.
Simon Holt:
...era madrugada
Canciones: Fiona Kimm (mezzo- soprano)
Shadow Realm
Sparrow Night |
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ID: NMCD007
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber EnsembleAria for Edward John Eyre uses a siren-like solo soprano, narrators and ensemble to recreate the tale of the explorer's epic journey across Australia; the contrasting What Shall I Sing? is a delightful collection of nonsense rhymes. |
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ID: NMCD025
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber EnsembleA celebration of the unique contribution to contemporary music of this outstanding artist who, over the past 35 years, has given more than 350 world premieres: this collection includes songs by Anthony Payne, Brian Elias and Alison Bauld, plus Judith Weir's tribute to Chagall ('Don't let that horse') and Anthony Gilbert's quirky Beastly Jingles. |
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ID: NMCD029
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber EnsembleA disc that reveals the striking diversity of Woolrich's chamber music: The intimacy of A Farewell contrasts with the larger scale 'machines for instruments', such as the title work. |
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ID: NMCD089
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber EnsembleWhile I Am Goya, The Sickle and Remembering Esenin share a common inspiration in Russian poetry of the last century, the Flute Concerto provides a contrast in its neo-Baroque concerto grosso style.
These recordings were originally released on Unicorn-Kanchana in 1983.
Reissued with funding from Arts Council England. |
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ID: NMCD033
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber EnsembleMatthews's The Great Journey, a forceful and panoramic narrative of a 16th-century Spanish expedition to America, is complemented by the scherzo Fuga and Night's Mask, a darkly atmospheric setting of Fernando Pessoa's brooding sonnet. |
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ID: NMCD105
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber EnsembleGilbert's entrancing violin concerto, On Beholding a Rainbow, is performed by rising stars Anthony Marwood (violin) and Garry Walker (conductor) with the RNCM Symphony Orchestra, and coupled with Unrise and ...Into the gyre of a madder dance - two new works written for the wind ensemble of the Royal Northern College of Music, where Gilbert was for many years Head of Composition. The disc is completed by the haunting song-cycle Certain Lights Reflecting, which sets evocative texts by Tasmanian poet Sarah Day; it is heard here in a live recording by mezzo-soprano Susan Bickley, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis. |
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ID: NMCD167
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber EnsembleJake Gardner, baritone
Gayle Hunnicutt, narrator
London Sinfonietta
Thea Musgrave, conductor
Red Byrd
Fretwork
Scottish Ensemble
Rich, powerful musical language and a strong sense of drama have made Thea Musgrave one of the most respected and exciting of living composers. Born in Edinburgh in 1928, she studied at the University of Edinburgh then in Paris, where she spent four years as a pupil of Nadia Boulanger, before establishing herself in London with her orchestral, choral, operatic and chamber works. She has lived in the US since 1970.
Musgrave’s ‘opera for radio’ sets a dreamlike tale of the American Civil War based on An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, a short story written in the late 19th century by Ambrose Bierce.
Thea Musgrave says .... These three works, though all very different and written decades apart, nevertheless share a common subject: conflict. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1981), a heart-breaking story from the American Civil war; Wild Winter I (1993), a setting of poems from many different countries and in several different languages about the inevitable losses and cruelties of war; and Green (2007), an abstract conflict of a life-giving force against its suffocating nemesis. |
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