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ID: GMCD7225
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Organ Collection
The Organ of Tonbridge School Chapel
Dr. Arthur Wills was Director of Music at Ely Cathedral from 1958 to 1990, and also held a Professorship at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1964 until 1992. He has toured extensively as a recitalist in Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, and has broadcast, appeared on TV and made many recordings, both as a soloist and with the Ely Choir. His secular music includes seven song cycles, and an opera "Winston and Julia", based on the Orwell novel "1984". He has composed prolifically for the organ, and his ensemble works include a Concerto with Strings and Timpani, a Concerto for Guitar and Organ, and a Symphonic Suite:- "The Fenlands" for Brass Band and Organ. His book "ORGAN" appeared in the Menuhin Music Guide Series in 1984, with a second edition in 1993 and a third reprint in 1997. The Ely Choir has recently recorded a CD of his choral and organ music from 1955 to 1990 on Herald HAVPCD 1997. In May 1999 Hyperion Records re-issued two recordings from the early 80's on one CD - his Symphonic Suite: "The Fenlands" for Organ and Brass Band, including also music by Elgar and Walton, together with Dr. Wills' transcription of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" for solo Organ (CDH55003). His recording entitled "Full Stops" first issued in 1978, which includes his Variations on "Amzing Grace" was re-issued on CD 84305 in 1995 by Meridian. Novello have recently published his transcription for organ of three movements from Holst's PLANETS Suite - Mars, Venus and Jupiter. |
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ID: IFO03001
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Sacred Music
At present there is no shortage of angels: a lot of anthologies of poems and other texts as well as recordings of "angel music" demonstrate how fascinating the messengers and guarding powers of the invisible world are again in our days. The compositions by Thomas Gabriel combine poems and music in these songs. They meet the growing demand for "new religious songs" with sophisticated lyrics on the one hand and melodies on the other hand which are neither markedly youthful like the so-called "new spiritual songs" nor as demanding as the avant-garde art song.
For the arrangements Thomas Gabriel selected lyrics by prominent poets of their time which he spontaneously connected with tunes. With intuition he translated them into music stressing the special character of each poem.
The Bishop of Mainz, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, supported this project not only with his interest, but also by supplying several volumes from the extensive lyric collections of his library to select the right poems from.
Therefore the composer wished to dedicate these songs to Lehmann´s 65th birthday on May 16, 2001. |
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ID: IFO03004
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Sacred Music
Subcollection: ChoirHeiliger Glanz - Lieder des christlichen Ostens
Die Gruppe "Kupalinka" entstand im Sommer 2001 durch die Initiative des Freiburger Musikstudenten Josef Kraft, der im Rahmen der partnerschaftlichen Beziehungen zwischen der Musikhochschule Freiburg und dem Konservatorium in Odessa an einem Austauschprogramm in Odessa teilnahm. Beim gemeinsamen Musizieren mit Studenten des Konservatoriums bildete sich das Quintett Kupalinka, das seitdem mit viel Freude und Begeisterung ukrainische und russische Folklore sowie Gesänge aus der russisch-orthodoxen Liturgie aufführt. Der Name "Kupalinka" ist inspiriert vom gleichnamigen ukrainischen Volkslied, das zu den Lieblingsliedern der Gruppe zählt. Bei zwei Konzerttourneen (Sommer 2001 und Winter 2001/02) wurde das Ensemble in Deutschland gastfreundlich aufgenommen von vielen Kirchengemeinden und anderen Veranstaltern in Mainz und im Rhein-Main-Gebiet, in Freiburg und im Schwarzwald, in München und Münster. Ermutigt von der großen Resonanz fanden im Januar und August 2002 Aufnahmen in Geinsheim und Mainz zur vorliegenden CD statt. |
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ID: GCCD4004
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Sacred Music
Subcollection: ChantFrom historic Durham Cathedral, by Magificat, Philip Cave’s group
This renowned choral group sings plainchant and Gregorian amongst twenty-five pieces from the time of Gregory the Great to Wulfstan of Worcester. c.540 to 1095. |
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ID: GCCD4005
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Choral Collection
Westminster Abbey Choir is World-famous, as is the Director Martin Neary, since he organised the music for the funeral of Princess Diana. 21 All-time favourite Carols are here sung in modern digital recordings. |
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ID: OC540
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir |
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ID: CLS0202
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Sacred Music
Subcollection: Voice and OrganThe CD also contains a Multimedia Booklet with two bonus tracks (encores from a concert on June 4, 2002):
George Frideric Handel: "Ombra mai fu" (Serse), 3'10
George Frideric Handel: "Lascia ch'io pianga" (Rinaldo), 5'22 |
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ID: GCCD4050
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Sacred Music
Subcollection: Sacred Songs of SorrowHighly successful & interesting arrangements of Negro Spirituals, plus the lovely Four Prieres for St Francis of Assisi by Poulenc. |
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ID: GMCD7111
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Choral Collection
Recorded in: St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast |
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ID: GMCD7226
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Choral and OrganChristopher Eastwood plays the organ for In The Bleak Midwinter, and conducts The Three Kings.
Mark Williams (A Spotless Rose)
Rebecca Willcox (In The Bleak Midwinter)
William Tallon (In The Bleak Midwinter)
Sylvia Garnsey (Coventry Carol, Once In Royal)
Thomas Lydon (Three Kings)
Poulenc: Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps De Noel
Poulenc’s religious music, while expressing perfectly his profound Catholic faith, was always closely bound up with his relationships with friends and lovers. He had been catapulted back to the church in 1936 by the death in appalling circumstances of the composer Pierre-Octave Ferroud. His great opera Dialogues des Carmelites was deeply affected by the illness and death of his lover Lucien Roubert. These four exquisite miniatures seem to have been written, between November 1951 and May 1952, at least in part as gifts for their dedicatees: indeed they are such private pieces that no proper record exists of their first performance. What may have been their premiere was given, rather incongruously, in Madrid by the Netherlands Chamber Choir. Poulenc dedicated the first of them, a dark, tender setting of "O Magnum Mysterium", to the conductor of that performance, Felix de Nobel. The gentle second motet "Quem Vidistis Pastores" was a tribute to one of Poulenc’s closest woman friends, Simone Girard. She was the secretary of the Avignon Concerts Society and by all accounts an indefatigable organiser and fine amateur pianist. To Poulenc she was indispensable. In a letter of 1951, in which he offers her the "Quem Vidistis", he tells her "You have the ultimate intelligence - quite simply that of the heart, a sentiment surely appropriate to this evocation of the simple shepherds seeing the star over Bethlehem. The set is completed by a setting, marked "Calme et doux", of "Videntes Stellam", and an exultant "Hodie Christus Natus Est" which seems to be made up entirely of fanfares. |
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