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Russian and World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: SIGCD115
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Choral Collection
Hear my words ye people by Hubert Parry, a former chorister at Eton College is the first track on the album featuring some of the bestloved anthems in the church repertoire, beautifully performed by the Eton College Chapel Choir.
The choir, formed in the 14th-Century has changed a great deal since the choir school was succeeded by a music scholarship system, designed to facilitate talented choristers with their education. Although life has changed at Eton, the music passed down over five hundred years still possesses a power to stir. |
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ID: SIGCD501
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: ChoirSacred music by contemporary composers
Includes Tavener World Premiere Recording
Signum Records is delighted to announce the release of Tenebrae's second disc, Mother and Child
Tenebrae has, in its short existence, made a considerable impact with fresh and vital re-interpretations of classic works in the choral repertoire. On this new recording, innovatory and lesser-known repertoire is drawn from contemporary sources, reflecting an exploratory approach which places the group artistically at the cutting edge.
This is a distinctive and distinguished collection of works by a number of living composers, many of whom have established themselves at the creative forefront of the choral scene in recent times.
Five of the tracks are world premier recordings:
Francis Pott: The souls of the righteous Sir John Tavener: Mother and Child Alexander L’Estrange: Lute-book lullaby Jeremy Filsell: O be joyful in the Lord Francis Pott: My song is love unknown
The centre-piece of the disc is a new commission - Mother and Child - by from the world acclaimed composer Sir John Taverner.
The universal aspect of motherhood is an idea to which Tavener has returned again and again in his music. Behind this concept lies that of infinite theophanic light, an idea common to all religious traditions. Tavener’s music here interpolates a poem by Brian Keeble with Greek and Sanskrit quotations, the latter in a climactic outburst. The music, having grown in crescendo, is joined by massive organ chords and develops to become an overwhelming pulsating texture at the climax, with awesome strokes sounded on a large Hindu temple gong. The clamour dissipates at the final invocation, ‘Hail Maria’, which is prayerful and contemplative. |
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ID: SIGCD134
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Sacred Music
Subcollection: ChoirThe early music ensemble Gallicantus was born within the ranks of the world-class choir Tenebrae, when five of the choir’s regulars, each with a wealth of experience in the world of consort singing, decided to form a separate group dedicated to renaissance music. Literally meaning Rooster Song or cock crow, Gallicantus is a word from monastic antiquity for the office held just before the dawn. It evokes the renewal of life offered by the coming day.
The group is bound by a shared love of communicating text, and is committed to creating performances which draw out unifying themes within apparently diverse repertoire: To this end they are as meticulous about providing context and insight for audiences as they are about crafting interpretations of the music they love. |
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ID: SIGCD212
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Sacred Music
Prayers for Mankind celebrates the life and writings of Father Alexander Men, a Russian Orthodox Christian priest who, whilst being little known outside of his home country during his lifetime, has come to be hailed as a saint and martyr by thousands all over the world. 2010 marks the anniversary of what would have been his 85th Birthday, as well as 20 years since his brutal assassination on the way to a Sunday morning service.
Following years of religious suppression under the communist regime, Father Alexander Men emerged as a leading Christian and humanitarian figure in Russia, through radio and TV broadcasts and his prolific written works. These prayers, set by Russian composer Alexander Levine, capture the beauty and humanity of Men’s view of the world, and is brought vividly to life by Nigel Short’s professional chamber choir Tenebrae.
A recent review for Tenebrae (from their June disc - Figure Humaine, SIGCD197) |
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ID: NMCD063M
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Sacred Music
Subcollection: ChoirFrancis Burt's heartfelt and uncompromising oratorio sets Old Testament texts, in Luther's German translation, tracing the life of man from the creation story through love, marriage, family and finally the acceptance of mortality. |
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ID: VOL.110.0
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Sacred Music
Subcollection: ChoirThe combined Choir of the Holy Assumption Laura of the Caves in Kiev and the Kiev Theological Academy and Seminary conducted by Hierodeacon Kirill (Borisevich)
1 CD (booklet 52 pages) |
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ID: MELCD1002366
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection:
Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir and OrchestraEvangelist - Protodeacon Viktor Shilovsky, baritone (CD1, CD2)
Naira Asatrian, soprano (CD2: 11)
Olessya Petrova, mezzo-soprano (CD1: 11)
Maxim Paster, tenor (CD2:18)
Sergei Markelov, tenor (CD1: 3, 7, 13, 16, 26 / CD2: 10, 13)
Dmitri Beloselsky, bass (CD1: 10, 21-22)
Moscow Synodal Choir - Alexei Puzakov, choirmaster
Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra - Vladimir Fedoseyev,conductor
Firma Melodiya presents a recording of St Matthew Passion (2006), one of the most popular works of Russian academic music of the 21st century composed by Metropolitan Hilarion. In due course, this work will probably take a special place in the history of domestic music, but it has already been a source of inspiration for The Conductor (2012), a motion picture by Pavel Lungin, and performed over fifty times around the world.
Its composer Metropolitan Hilarion (Grigory Alfeyev) is a pries of the Russian Orthodox Church, a theologian and public figure, an author of fundamental studies on religious issues, and a Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Oxford. In 1984 to 1987 he studied at the composition department of the Moscow Conservatory under professor Alexei Nikolayev. Later he left music for an ecclesiastical career, but subsequently returned to composing.
The uniqueness of St Matthew Passion lies in the synthesis of musical traditions of West European baroque where the musical genre of passion sprang from, Orthodox church signing and Russian symphonic music of the 19th and 20th centuries. St Matthew Passion is intended for concert performance, but in the opinion of the musicologist and chancellor of the Moscow Conservatory Alexander Sokolov "this music leads a man to God through knowledge of God, to spiritual through soulful".
The featured recording was made in 2010 by the first performers of the Passion who are the Moscow Synodal Choir led by Alexei Puzakov and the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev with the participation of young vocalists and prize-winners of international competitions Naira Asatrian, Olessya Petrova, Maxim Paster and Dmitri Beloselsky. |
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ID: VOL.68.0
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Sacred Music
Colour booklet (16 pages) with reproductions of icons and the chapter Preparation for Confession and Holy Communion from the book N.V.Gogol. Religious Prose.
These prayers and psalms help people attain a penitential mood and prepare themselves for confession. A good «aid» for those who are preparing for Communion as it helps them understand their sinfulness, cleanse their minds and hearts, receive the grace of the Holy Spirit and in the hope for the all-forgiving love of God, for the purifying and saving power of the Holy Mysteries to partake of them worthily. |
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ID: SIGCD391
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Sacred Music
Subcollection: Voices(1 - 6) Voces 8, Les Inventions
1 - Barnaby Smith (countertenor), Dingle Yandell (bass)
2 - Barnaby Smith (countertenor), Charles MacDougall (tenor), Dingle Yandell (bass)
3 - nhild Waldeck (recorder)
4 - Emily Dickens (soprano), Dingle Yandell (bass)
5 - rnaby Smith (countertenor), Dingle Yandell (bass) |
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ID: VOL.17.0
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Sacred Music
Subcollection: ChoirThe monastic choir of the Valaam Stavropegic monastery of the Transfiguration of the Saviour - Precentor Hierodeacon German (Ryabtsev)
«Thy Resurrection, O Christ, the angels sing in the heavens» Paschal Matins begin with this stanza, which opens the CD containing the Paschal hymns. These hymns are imbued with joy over Risen Christ and the triumph of life over death. The Passover (from the Jewish word meaning «transition») from death to immortality, from corruption to eternal life is the main theme of Paschal canon and other hymns of this greatest Christian feast. Its particular importance and solemnity are accentuated by the repetition of the famous Paschal troparion «Christ is risen from the dead!» |
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