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ID: DCD34121
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Saxophone
Sue McKenzie saxophone
Ingrid Sawers piano
A Robert Mapplethorpe photograph and the playing style of Busoni's favourite clarinettist - just two of the inspirations behind these six recent British works for saxophone and piano, which are linked by the composers' relationship to popular music, whether oblique, overt, or antagonistic.
From the pounding muscularity of Graham Fitkin to the blues-drenched melancholy of Mark-Anthony Turnage, Edinburgh duo Sue McKenzie and Ingrid Sawers bring stylistic authority and idiomatic flair to everything they play on this, their debut recording.
Sue McKenzie is a past winner of the British Clarinet and Saxophone Society Young Performers Competition. As one of Scotland's leading contemporary saxophonists she has given UK and Scottish premieres of many new works for saxophone, including those from Gavin Bryars, Graham Fitkin and Amy Quate. Susan is also the leader of the Scottish Saxophone Ensemble and was an Assistant Director of the World Saxophone Congress in 2012.
Ingrid Sawers is in demand as one of Scotland's finest accompanists and chamber musicians, performing in venues including the Usher Hall, Glamis Castle and Scone Palace, as well as widely throughout the UK and abroad.
Track listing
Gabriel Jackson (b. 1962) The Coral Sea*
1 Prologue
2 Voyage
3 Litany
Graham Fitkin (b. 1963)
4 Gate
Nikki Iles (b. 1963)
5 Alma Venus
Graham Fitkin
6 Glass
Mark-Anthony Turnage (b. 1960) Two Memorials
7 Trier
8 Memorial
Gavin Bryars (b. 1943)
9 Allegrasco*
Total playing time [58:55]
* Premiere recordings |
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ID: DCD34117
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Vocal and Piano
Ailish Tynan soprano
Susan Bickley mezzo-soprano
William Dazeley baritone
Iain Burnside piano
Recorded in the music room of Parry’s boyhood home- Highnam Court in Gloucestershire - this disc sees three of our finest singers shed an illuminating light on an area of the repertoire that has rarely graced the concert hall in recent times. As English song came into full flower at the turn of the twentieth century, Parry's substantial contribution to the genre became somewhat buried. Iain Burnside and his singers rediscover what has been forgotten by historical accident, and what a treasure chest of song they have found! Combining an innately English sensibility with a technical fastidiousness that owes much to the lieder of Brahms, Schumann and Wolf, every one of these songs demonstrates Parry’s fundamental concern for sincerity and proper declamation of the words. Still best known for two short choral works, Hubert Parry is at last undergoing something of a revival, and these beautifully articulated performances return his songs to the heart of his output, where the composer always felt they belonged.
Track listing
1 Good-night
2 To Lucasta on Going to the Wars
3 Sleep
4 Where shall the Lover Rest
5 What Part of Dread Eternity
6 Julia
7 From a City Window
8 My Heart is like a Singing Bird
9 Looking Backward
10 Proud Maisie
11 The Faithful Lover
12 Bright Star
13 Crabbed Age and Youth
14 Nightfall in Winter
15 Grapes
16 O Never Say that I was False of Heart
17 Dirge in Woods
18 A Girl to her Glass
19 There
20 O Mistress mine
21 Whence
22 Willow, Willow, Willow
23 And Yet I Love Her till I Die
24 Lay a Garland on my Hearse
25 Armida’s Garden
26 If Thou would’st Ease thine Heart
27 A Welsh Lullaby
Total playing time [69:06] |
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ID: DCD34116
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Vocal and Piano
William Berger baritone
Iain Burnside piano
For his solo debut on disc, William Berger has devised an ingenious sequence of seventeen songs describing a sleepless night experienced by a man who reflects on his love for an unnamed woman. From Viennese classicism to fin-de-siècle Romanticism, shadowy English pastoral to the contemporary worlds of Richard Rodney Bennett and Raymond Yiu, this wide-ranging programme is brought to nuanced life by this outstanding young baritone. The indefatigable Iain Burnside provides lucid and imaginative accompaniment. Together, their performances vividly capture the full gamut of nocturnal emotions.
Track listing
19:30
1 Abendempfindung
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
21:30
2 Nuit d’étoiles
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
3 Le grillon
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
4 Claire de lune
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
22:30
5 The Night
Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
6 Tired
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
7 Dream-Song
Richard Rodney Bennett (b. 1936)
23:30
8 Auf der Bruck
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Midnight
9 Um Mitternacht
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
01:00
10 Schon streckt’ ich aus im Bett
Wolf
11 Mandoline
Fauré
12 Sérénade toscane
Fauré
13 Nicht länger kann ich singen
Wolf
03:00
14 Sonnet (2011)
Raymond Yiu (b. 1973)
15 Oh! quand je dors
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
16 Und steht Ihr früh am Morgen auf
Wolf
06:00
17 Morgen!
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Encores
18 Der Mond kommt still gegangen
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
19 Viens! Les gazons sont verts!
Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Total playing time [55:42] |
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ID: DCD34115
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: RenaissanceThe Marian Consort
Rose Consort of Viols
Rory McCleery, conductor
For its second Delphian recording, The Marian Consort have leafed through the beautifully calligraphed pages of the partbooks compiled in Oxford between 1581 and 1588 by the Elizabethan scholar Robert Dow, to present a deeply satisfying sequence of some of their brightest jewels. Sumptuous motets, melancholy consort songs and intricate, harmonically daring viol fantasies are seamlessly interwoven, all brought to life by seven voices and the robust plangency of the Rose Consort of Viols in the chapel of All Souls College, Oxford - where Dow himself was once a Fellow.
The Marian Consort is a young, dynamic early music vocal ensemble founded in Oxford in 2007. Combining academic insight with high levels of performance practice, the ensemble predominantly explores the repertoire of Renaissance and early Baroque music with its director Rory McCleery. They are joined by the Rose Consort of Viols, which takes its name from the celebrated family of viol makers, whose work spanned the development of the English consort repertoire.
Track listing
1 William Mundy (c.1528-c.1591)
Sive vigilem
2 Nicholas Strogers (fl. 1560-75)
A doleful deadly pang
3 Nicholas Strogers
In Nomine a 5 (No. 2)
4 (?)Robert Mallory (d. 1572)
Miserere a 5
5 Nathaniel Giles (c.1558-1633/34)
Vestigia mea dirige
6 Robert White (c.1538- 1574)
In Nomine a 5
7 William Byrd (1539/40-1623)
O Lord, how vain
8 Robert White
Justus es, Domine
9 Christopher Tye (c.1505-1572/73)
In Nomine
10 Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585)
O salutaris hostia
11 Robert Parsons (c.15351572)
Retribue servo tuo
12 anon.
Come Holy Ghost
13 Vincenzo Ruffo (c.15081587)
La gamba
14 William Byrd
La verginella
15 anon. ['Roose']
Dum transisset Sabbatum
16 Jean Maillard (c.1515-after 1570)
Ascendo ad Patrem meum
17 Nicholas Strogers
Non me vincat, Deus meus
18 (?)Philippe Verdelot (1480s-c.1530)
Madonna somm'acorto
19 Philip van Wilder (c.15001553)
Je file quand Dieu me donne de quoy
20 Philip van Wilder
Pour vous aymer j'ay mis toute ma cure
21 Robert Parsons
Ave Maria
Total playing time [72:49] |
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ID: DCD34114
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Subkolektion: Trio
Fidelio Trio
RTE National Symphony Orchestra
Robert Plane clarinet
Pierre-Andrew Valade conductor
Internationally-acclaimed composer Piers Hellawell makes his debut on Delphian with a diverse programme of premiere recordings. With sources of inspiration ranging from the self-immolation of Jan Palac to the lost Etruscan language and the sculptures of abstract expressionist David Smith, the full breadth and depth of Hellawell’s compositional preoccupations are represented in authoritative performances by some of his closest collaborators.
Track listing
Piers Hellawell
1-11 Agricolas (2008) for clarinet and orchestra
12 Airs, Waters and Floating Islands (1995) for piano
13-16 Etruscan Games (2007) for piano trio
17 Basho (1997) for piano
18 Degrees of Separation (2004) for orchestra
19 Jan Palac and the Flaming Skier (1992) for violin and piano
Total playing time [73:39] |
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ID: DCD34112
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: BaroqueSubkolektion: Harpsichord
John Kitchen harpsichord (1769 Taskin Harpsichord)
John Kitchen - uniquely familiar with Edinburgh's internationally acclaimed collections of early keyboard instruments - turns his attention to the world's most famous harpsichord, the Taskin harpsichord. The reign of Louis XV was the period during which the harpsichord gained its greatest popularity in France, and this glorious 1769 instrument by Pascal Taskin would have been the preferred choice of any composer. Here its opulent lushness is captured in the ideal acoustics of Scotland's oldest concert hall St Cecilia's Hall. The Hall is also home to the Raymond Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments, which houses the Taskin harpsichord. The combination of instrument, venue, programme and performer creates a unique listening experience.
This is John Kitchen's fourteenth solo recording on Delphian. Since his appointment in 2002 as Edinburgh City Organist, he has curated a busy series of concerts in the city's iconic Usher Hall. Recent recital series in the USA and Germany complement his busy programme of activities in the UK. Having studied seventeenth century French harpsichord music whilst Organ Scholar at Clare College, Cambridge, John is now Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh University, Conductor of Edinburgh University Singers, and Director of Music of Old Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in Edinburgh.
Track listing
1 François Couperin (1668-1733): Ordre no. 6 in B flat
1 Les Moissonneurs
2 Les Langueurs-Tendres
3 Le Gazoüillement
4 La Bersan
5 Les Baricades Mistérieuses
6 Les Bergeries
7 La Commére
8 Le Moucheron
Antoine Forqueray (1672-1745)
[attrib.]
9 La Du Breüil
10 La Leclair
11 La Léon
12 La Boisson
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
13 La Triomphante
14 Fanfarinette
15 Les Sauvages
16 L’Enharmonique
17 L’Egiptienne
Jacques Duphly (1715-1789)
18 La Forqueray
19 Médée
Total playing time [66:26] |
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ID: DCD34107
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Sacred MusicSubkolektion: Choral and Organ
Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum
Carleton Etherington organ
Benjamin Nicholas director
For his final recording with the men and boys of Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, Benjamin Nicholas has chosen to celebrate Britain’s best-loved living composer, John Rutter. Rather than simply sticking to familiar classics, this programme explores the full range of the composer’s output from The Lord is my shepherd and Lord, thou hast been our refuge to his most recent piece This is the day, written for the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Rutter’s rare communicative gifts are given a special glow by the refulgent acoustic of Tewkesbury Abbey and the choir’s luminous singing.
Track listing
1 Lord, thou hast been our refuge
2 Dormi, Jesu
3 This is the day
4 Carol of the Magi
5 As the bridegroom to his chosen
6 The Lord is my shepherd
7 Ave Maria
8 The Lord bless you and keep you
9 A Prayer of Saint Patrick
10 Hymn to the Creator of Light
11 Wells Jubilate
12 God be in my head
13 The Gift of Charity
14 There is a flower
15 A Choral Amen
Total playing time [70:10] |
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ID: DCD34105
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Vocal and Piano
Sophie Bevan soprano
Andrew Kennedy tenor
Roderick Williams baritone
Iain Burnside piano
Despite a compositional career spanning both World Wars, remarkably little is known about Martin Shaw’s music. It has yet to enjoy the revival of interest that has benefitted the legacies of close friends such as Ralph Vaughan Williams and John Ireland. His songs range from the whimsical and effervescent to the deeply melancholic, and will be a revelation to many. In rescuing these gems from obscurity, Iain Burnside and his singers have given new life to an unjustly neglected figure.
Track listing
1 Venizel Short
2 Jack Overdue Pudney
3 The Melodies You Sing Bax
4 The Airmen Armour
5 Over The Sea Boulton
6 Pity The Poor Fighting Men Kipling
7 The Egg-Shell Kipling
8 The Land Of Heart’s Desire Yeats
9 The Conjuration Hung-So-Fan
10 The Merry Wanderer Shakespeare
11 Bab-Lock-Hythe Binyon
12 Child Of The Flowing Tide G. Dearmer
13 Full Fathom Five Shakespeare
14 Bird Or Beast? C. Rossetti
15 The Little Waves Of Breffny Gore-Booth
16 Come Away, Death Shakespeare
17 Brookland Road Kipling
18 Summer C. Rossetti
19 The Bubble Song M. Dearmer
20 The Dip Parry
21 The Rivulet Larcom
22 I Know A Bank Shakespeare
23 Perilous Ways Currie
24 Heffle Cuckoo Fair Kipling
25 Old Clothes And Fine Clothes Pride
26 Over The Sea With The Soldier Boulton
27 When Daisies Pied Shakespeare
28 At Columbine’s Grave Carman
29 Wood Magic Buchan
30 Tides Pride
31 Ye Banks And Braes Burns
32 The Accursed Wood Boulton
33 The World’s Delight Ould
34 The Banks Of Allan Water Lewis
35 Invictus Henley
36 Cuckoo traditional
Total playing time [77:35] |
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ID: DCD34104
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Subkolektion: Choir
Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
Geoffrey Webber director
Annie Lydford and Nick Lee organ
The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge explores the fascinating relationship between 16th- and early 20th century music as understood by the pioneers of the Tudor revival in England. Centred on Byrd’s Mass for Five Voices - revelatory and inspirational listening for a whole host of composers - this mosaic of reworkings, reimaginings and lovingly-crafted homages is brought to life with all the scholarly acumen and full-throated fervour that are the hallmarks of one of Britain’s finest choirs.
Caius College Choir is one of the UK's leading collegiate choirs. Its members are almost all undergraduates of the College who have been elected into Choral Exhibitions. The twenty-three singers and two organ scholars, under the direction of Dr Geoffrey Webber, perform a wide range of sacred and secular choral music ranging from the fourteenth century to the present day, and have developed a niche for reviving neglected repertoires.
Track listing
1. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Whitsunday Hymn (1930)
2. William Harris: Eternal Ruler (1930)
3. Gustav Holst: Man born to toil (1927)
4. Thomas Tallis arr. M. & G. Shaw: Funeral Music (1915)
5. Percy Whitlock: O living Bread, who once didst die (1930)
6. Gerald Finzi: Up to those bright and gladsome hills (1925)
7-11. William Byrd: Mass for Five Voices
12. William Byrd arr. J.E. Borland: Fantasia in C (1907)
13. Benjamin Britten: A Hymn to the Virgin (1930)
14. Herbert Howells: Haec dies (1918)
15. Robert Pearsall: Tu es Petrus (1854)
16. Arnold Bax: Lord, thou hast told us (1931)
17. Herbert Howells: Master Tallis’s Testament (1940)
Total playing time [70:54] |
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ID: DCD34102
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Kolektion: Sacred MusicTewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum
Charivari Agréable
Laurence Kilsby treble
Jeremy Kenyon alto
Christopher Watson tenor
Christopher Borrett bass
Benjamin Nicholas director
Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum and Charivari Agréable come together for the first time in vividly communicative interpretations of three of Mozart’s sacred masterpieces. The forces are very much as Mozart intended - a period orchestra, an all-male chorus and soloists (including 2009 BBC Chorister of the Year Laurence Kilsby) drawn from the choir. Under Benjamin Nicholas’s spirited direction these performances bristle with energy and the invigorating freshness of youth.
Track listing
‘Coronation’ Mass in C K317
1 Kyrie
2 Gloria
3 Credo
4 Sanctus
5 Benedictus
6 Agnus Dei
7 Ave verum corpus K618
Vesperae solennes de Confessore K339
8 Dixit Dominus
9 Confitebor
10 Beatus vir
11 Laudate pueri
12 Laudate Dominum
13 Magnificat
Total playing time [54:59] |
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