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ID: NMCD033 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Chamber Ensemble Matthews'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: NMCD089 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Chamber Ensemble While 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: NMCD167 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Chamber Ensemble Jake 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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ID: NMCD105 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Chamber Ensemble Gilbert'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: NMCD130 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Chamber Ensemble A second disc of Anthony Payne's evocative vocal and chamber works, written for and featuring acclaimed soprano Jane Manning. She is accompanied by the pioneering ensemble she founded, Jane's Minstrels, in these settings of passages from Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders, and Edward Thomas's well-loved poems Lights Out and Adelstrop.
3 - Fenella Barton, violin / Dominic Saunders, piano |
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ID: NMCD153 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Chamber Ensemble Thea Musgrave's dramatic evocation of JMW Turner's seascapes is coupled with her settings of Burns' poems, 'Songs for a Winters Evening', and the double concerto 'Two's Company', written for Dame Evelyn Glennie and Nicholas Daniel. |
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ID: NMCD152 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Chamber Ensemble This collection of premiere recordings from David Matthews features Terrible Beauty, for mezzo-soprano and seven players, setting both Homer and Shakespeare in a dramatic depiction of Cleopatra; Winter Passions - which sets Pushkin's poems of love and absence - and Marina, a setting of TS Eliot's brooding monologue - both feature baritone Stephan Loges. The disc is completed with the Clarinet Quartet and two String Trios. |
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ID: NMCD158 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Chamber Ensemble Peter Wiegold has spent many years studing Indian and Gamelan music, playing with leading Indian musicians in the Gemini-Bhavan Ensemble and in the English Gamelan Orchestra.
He is currently Professor, Head of Music Research, at Brunel University. In 2007 Peter wrote a highly acclaimed large-scale work for the BBC Proms entitled, He is armoured without for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, musicians from Uzbekistan, the Coldstream Guards, 80 brass players plus solo trumpet and trombone. It was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society large-scale composition prize. Peter’s music is influenced by his strong interest in eastern philosophy, especially Buddhism.
Peter Wiegold’s music is a mixture of fully notated, freely improvised and anything in between - he often allows the performers to participate in the creative process. This is his first portrait recording on NMC.
Works on this disc include the plaintive, pastoral Earth, receive an honoured guest, for cor anglais and strings, inspired by WH Auden’s well known elegy for WB Yeats; the elemental Kalachakra for large ensemble depicting the creation of the universe using Tibetan bells and brass; and the bittersweet, Viennese Earth and Stars, commissioned for the 200th anniversary of Mozart’s death and featuring 4 harmonicas to represent an ancient funeral band, dug up from the soil by future generations.
Kalachakra / notes inégales, Peter Wiegold / Earth, Receive an Honoured Guest: Melinda Maxwell (cor anglais), Southbank Sinfonia, Peter Wiegold, conductor / Les Roses: Juliet Fraser (soprano), Martin Butler (piano) / Earth and Stars / notes inégales, Peter Wiegold |
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ID: CLS0102 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Vocal CollectionAngelo Manzotti, sopranist. Tito Ceccherini, conductor. Baroque Ensemble Rocinante. Violin: Tuomo Suni (ConcertMaster), Lotta Suvanto (ConcertMaster), Marika. Holmqvist, Mervi Kinnarinen, Siiri Rasta. Viola: Laura Kajander. Cello: Ville Sirvio. Double Bass: Maria Vahervuo. Oboe: Jasu Moisio, Regina Hamarikivi. Flute: Lorenzo Cavasanti. Bassoon: Jani Sunnarborg. Harpsichord: Assi Karttunen. CD 2: Multimedia Booklet (PC & Mac Compatible) Includes pictures, detailed biographies, bonus mp3 files, the music in full score and more! (Requires a Java enabled browser like IE or Netscape, version 4 or better). |
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ID: ART133 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Chamber MusicSubkolektion: Voices and Chamber Ensemble Grigorij Jakovlev, baritone
Jaroslav Kostrykin, basson (1-7)
Petr Kondrashin Jr., cello (8-11)
Vladimir Beluntsov, piano (1-11)
Vadim Ryzhkov, piano (12, 13)
Soloists of Studio for New Music Ensemble
Ivan Bushuev, flute
Ekaterina Fomitskaja, violin
Mikhail Dubov, piano (14)
Maxim Zolotarenko, cello (14) |
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