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ID: DCD34099
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Voices
Irene Drummond, soprano
Iain Burnside, piano
For many years Irene Drummond has been the leading exponent of contemporary song in Scotland. With her partner Iain Burnside -- peerless in this music -- she offers a fascinating snapshot of her repertoire on this recording. From the rarified sparseness of James MacMillan, to the sustained luminosity of Paul Mealor, and the emotionally charged dramatic outbursts of John McLeod, The Shadow Side explores a world of half-lights and visceral intensity.
Track listing
1 Three Soutar Settings: Ballad
James MacMillan (b1959)
2-6 The Web: Five Love Songs*
Edward McGuire (b1948)
7 Three Soutar Settings: The Children
MacMillan
8-10 3 Poems of Irina Ratushinskaya*
John McLeod (b1934)
11-12 Two songs from Lasses, Love and Life*
arr. John Maxwell Geddes (b1941)
13 Three Soutar Settings: Scots Song
MacMillan
14 The Shadow Side of Joy Finzi
Judith Bingham (b1952)
15-16 Two songs from Songs: Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect*
Lewis Forbes (b1987)
17-19 Between Eternity and Time
Paul Mealor (b1975)
20 A Red, Red Rose*
arr. Roderick Williams (b1965)
Total playing time [69:04]
*denotes first recording |
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ID: DCD34098
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Piano
This year 2010 British Composer Award winner Rory Boyle celebrates his sixtieth birthday. Young virtuoso pianist James Willshire’s debut recording explores the full gamut of Boyle’s ompositional personality - from the cragginess of his finely wrought Sonata to the intensely human lyricism of Tatty’s Dancing (itself a sixtieth birthday present for Boyle's wife).
Track listing
All world premiere recordings made in the presence of the composer.
Arrivals and Departures
1 Pour Beatrice
2 Elegy on FS
3 Berceuse for Bertie
4 Flying
5 Reeling
Sonata
6 Toccatas, Dances, and Interludes
7 Recitatives and Dreams
8 Games
9 Capriccio on the Anniversary of a Beloved Master
Studies for the one in the middle
10 Rondo
11 Intermezzo
12 Toccata
13 Tatty’s Dance
14 Phaethon’s Dancing Lesson (Piano Trio No. 2)
Total playing time [67:58] |
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ID: DCD34097
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Choral and Organ
This ‘songbook’ is unique to the Schola Cantorum choristers of Tewkesbury Abbey. “Essentially, it's a showcase for the Abbey trebles,” their Director of Music Benjamin Nicholas explains. “We’ve been assembling our own Songbook for quite a while now - the songs the trebles sing, from time to time, in boys-only concerts, and that they are taught in individual singing lessons. I’ve always been keen to build each boy up as a soloist, not necessarily with the express idea of them singing lots of solos, but so that they can learn to sing in a soloistic way.”
This is evident most of all in the distinctive singing of 11- year-old Laurence Kilsby, whose gifts won him the BBC Chorister of the Year competition in 2009. On this recording, he features as soloist in two Shelley settings by Roger Quilter, the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria and in John Ireland’s beautiful, sincerely-felt Passiontide motet Ex Ore Innocentium from 1944.
Laurence Kilsby (treble), Helen Porter (piano), Carleton Etherington (organ)
The trebles of Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, Benjamin Nicholas (director)
Track listing
1 Music, When Soft Voices Die
Roger Quilter
2 Vater Unser
Arvo Pärt
3 Fairest Isle (Address To Britain)
Henry Purcell
4 Love’s Philosophy
Quilter
5 The Land Of Spices
Gabriel Jackson
6 Whispers
Howard Skempton
7 O Salutaris Hostia
Léo Delibes
8 Ex Ore Innocentium
John Ireland
9 The Flower
Philip Wilby
10 A Song At Evening
Richard Rodney Bennett
11 Ave Maria
J.S. Bach / Charles Gounod
12 Nymphs And Shepherds
Purcell
13 Dutch Carol
James MacMillan
14 I Will Give My Love An Apple
trad., arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
15 Linden Lea
Vaughan Williams
16 Dirge For Fidele
Vaughan Williams
17 Somewhere
Leonard Bernstein
18 Sure On This Shining Night
Samuel Barber
19 At The River
Robert Lowry, arr. Aaron Copland
20 The Lord’s Prayer
John Tavener, arr. Barry Rose
21 Wedding Introit
MacMillan
22 I Sing Of A Maiden
Patrick Hadley
23 Skye Boat Song
trad., arr. Percy Grainger
24 How Can I Keep From Singing?
Lowry, arr. John Scott
Total playing time [66:42] |
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ID: DCD34093
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Chamber MusicSubkolektion: Chamber Ensemble
Four concerts at 2009’s Edinburgh International Festival offered us a great opportunity to draw on our repertoire of the last 17 years, and to invite a few special guests to add some new discoveries along the way. This CD presents a selection of favourite moments from those evenings at the Hub, showing just some of the fun that we had there; everything you hear on this recording happened on stage in the shows (except the gun going off in the Tattoo at the Castle next door) … It's guaranteed live, and all the better for it!
Track listing
1 The Book of Doves (Alasdair Roberts)
2 Marshall-Burns
3 Sir Patrick Spens
4 The Duke of Athol’s March
5 Jamaican tunes (C. McNab)
6 Paven (Duncan Burnett)
7 Chiling O Guiry (Burk Thumoth)
8 Alloway House
9 The Secret Kiss (James Oswald)
10 The Scots Chaconne (John McLachlan?)
11 Reading Ends in Melancholy (John Abell)
12 Allegro from Quartetto Op 6 No 1 (J.G.C. Schetky)
13 Black Jock including Black, White, Yellow and Green
Total playing time [62:51]
Concerto Caledonia / David McGuinness, (harpsichord, fortepiano, reed organ, melodica)
with guests Martin Carthy, Michael Marra, Alasdair Roberts, Katharine Fuge |
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ID: DCD34106
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Choir
Choir of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh
Duncan Ferguson director
Nicholas Wearne organ
The Choir of St Mary's Cathedral is unique in Scotland in maintaining daily choral services in the Anglican tradition, and enjoys an international reputation for its daily services, broadcasts, recordings, concerts, and tours. The Cathedral was the first in the United Kingdom to allow girls to join boys as trebles in 1978 and then, in 2006, to allow female altos to sing alongside countertenors in the choir. Appointed in 2008, Organist and Master of the Music Duncan Ferguson has been instrumental in establishing the choir's status as one of UK's foremost cathedral choirs, whose recording catalogue now includes some six discs on Delphian.
Celebrating his 50th birthday in 2012, Gabriel Jackson has had a long and close association with the Choir of St Mary's Cathedral. This is the choir's second disc of Jackson's choral music on Delphian, and under Ferguson's dynamic direction they present a sequence of recording premieres that centre on the florid Hymn to St Margaret of Scotland, which has been newly written for the choir. A fitting celebration for Jackson's half-century, the disc opens a window on the luminous sound-world of one of Britain's finest choral composers.
Track listing
1 The Glory of the Lord
2 Fanfare for St Mary’s
3 The Christ-child
4 Hymn to St Margaret of Scotland
5 Jesu, Rex admirabilis Listen
6 Ah, mine heart
7-10 Missa Sanctae Margaretae
11 Justorum animae
12 Vidi aquam
13 Let us all rejoice in the Lord
14 In all his works
15 The Land of Spices
16 Ecce venio cito
Total playing time [68:38] |
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ID: DCD34130
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Track listing
1 Laudate Dominum
2Je suis déshéritée [?]Pierre Cadéac
3 Missa Je suis déshéritée - Kyrie
4 Omnes gentes attendite
5 Missa Je suis déshéritée - Gloria
6 Victimae paschali laudes
7 Missa Je suis déshéritée - Credo
8 Ascendo ad Patrem meum
9 Missa Je suis déshéritée - Sanctus & Benedictus
10 Fratres mei elongaverunt
11 Missa Je suis déshéritée - Agnus Dei
12 Hodie Maria virgo
13 In pace
14 Assumpta est Maria
15 Gaudent in caelis
16 In me transierunt
Total playing time [70:21]
Jean Maillard's life is shrouded in mystery, and his music is rarely heard today. Yet in his own time his works were both influential and widely known: indeed, the musicologist François Lesure held him to be one of the most important French composers of his era.
Who better, then, than Rory McCleery's Marian Consort to give this composer's rich and varied output its first dedicated recording? Their characteristically precise and yet impassioned performances bring out both the network of influence in which Maillard's music participated its Josquin-esque pedigree, and influence on successors including Lassus and Palestrina and its striking, individual beauty. |
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ID: DCD34129
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Track listing
1 And will he not come again
2 Canaries [Straloch MS]
3 A Scots Tune (untitled) [Rowallan MS]
4 Rest, sweet nymphs Francis Pilkington
5 St Valentine’s Day
6 Grein greus ye rasses, a Daunce [Straloch MS]
7 Go from my window [Folger Dowland MS]
8 Gypsies Lilt [Rowallan MS]
9 O sweet Oliver - My bonny lass (‘Sellinger’s Round’)
10 In throu the windoes of myn ees (Alexander Montgomerie)
11 A Port [Straloch MS]
12 Remember me, my deir
13 The Queen’s Treble John Johnson
14 When Laura smiles Philip Rosseter
15 A Scots Tune (untitled) [Jane Pickeringe MS]
16 Adeu, O desie of delyt Andrew Blackhall
17 How should I your true love know
18 Bonny sweet Robin
19 Ane Scottis Dance [Rowallan MS]
20 The cypress curtain of the night Thomas Campion
21 I long for thy virginite [Straloch MS]
22 Quhat mightie motione
23 The Scottish Huntsupe [Jane Pickeringe MS]
24 Pavane (Passamezzo) and Gagliarda [Braye MS]
25 And will he not come again[John Sturt MS]
The music for all tracks is anonymous except where indicated
Total playing time [62:02]
Scotland’s troubadours Fires of Love follow King James VI on a varied journey through song and instrumental music. In the sixteenth century Scotland appeared outwardly to be musically bruised - not necessarily so … As our musicians deftly weave their way through Scotland’s rich tapestry of historic manuscripts, they unveil attractive unsophisticated melodies, often heavily imbued with the French style.
On their arrival in London, James and his musicians would have been taken aback by the highly active theatre scene. Shakespeare’s texts give rise to compelling settings, from the plaintive And will he not come again, poignantly rendered here by Frances Cooper, to the risqué joviality of St Valentine’s Day.
As the Scots courtier-musicians nimbly traded French influence for London’s ‘Englished’ Italian style, one wonders: did they regretfully look homewards - Remember me my deir?
Based in Scotland, Fires of Love has been performing in venues and festivals around Britain since 1998. The repertoire centres on lute and guitar songs, set amongst instrumental ensembles, solos, recent discoveries and the group’s own arrangements. The music spans the breadth of Europe and Instruments include lutes, archlute, theorbo, vihuela, baroque guitar, fourcourse guitar, recorders and percussion. The group has made two previous recordings for Delphian: Love and Reconquest: Music of Renaissance Spain (DCD34003) and Chansons à Plaisir: Music from the time of Adrian Le Roy (1520-1598) (DCD34063), both released to high critical acclaim. |
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ID: DCD34120
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Track listing
1 Los paraguas de Buenos Aires
2 Tango de la espera
3 Cartas
4 Adi s Poeta
5 Vardarito
6 Versos
7 Obs rvalo bien
8 Madre selva
9 Tocata rea
10 Guitarra mía
11 Milonga del 2007
12 Sola
13 Fuga y misterio
14 Allegro tangabile
15 Yo soy María
16 Notango
Total playing time [57:14]
Women are at the heart of this disc: warm-hearted South American mothers, women on the town, little girls hanging scared on their mothers’ coat-tails, blondes kissing fruitsellers in the Buenos Aires rain … The disc brings together two areas of repertoire which Mr McFall’s Chamber have often combined in performance - Valentina Montoya Martínez’s songs of life as a Chilean exile, and the music of the tango nuevo, including songs and instrumental interludes from Ástor Piazzolla’s ‘operita’ María de Buenos Aires, where the character of María represents the tango itself.
‘La Pasionaria’ was the nickname of Dolores Ibárruri, a Basque communist leader during the Spanish Civil War. Likewise both engaged and passionate, the songs brought together here - including Valentina’s deeply personal odes to her late mother and to the political activist Sola Sierra - pay tribute to the private and public lives of women across Spain and Latin America. |
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ID: DCD34118
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Piano
Track listing
1 Mephisto Waltz No. 1
Liebesträume
2 Notturno No. 1
3 Notturno No. 2
4 Notturno No. 3
Tre Sonetti di Petrarca
5 Sonetto 47
6 Sonetto 104
7 Sonetto 123
8 Funérailles
Total playing time [73:58]
Fifty years after his victory in the International Liszt- Bartók Piano Competition, David Wilde - student of Solomon and of Nadia Boulanger - brings to the studio a lifetime’s experience with the music of Franz Liszt. The diabolically difficult Mephisto Waltz No 1 is dispatched in a reading which overflows with personality and conviction, while Funérailles, too, is compellingly reimagined by an artist who cleaves to an earlier generation’s ideals of recreating both the self and the music in every inspired performance. |
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