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ID: DCD34043 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: BaroqueThe massed voices of the 140-strong National Youth Choir revel in the magnificently soaring lines of Schütz’s sacred music, complemented by John Kitchen’s contributions on the powerful Rieger organ of St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh. Revered by his contemporaries as the ‘Orpheus of our time’, Schütz would never have heard his music performed by forces such as these and on such a scale - surely he would have been a strong advocate of this astounding aural experience. Kitchen’s solo contributions contextualise the choral music with organ works by Samuel Scheidt and other contemporaries of Schütz.
Track listing
Scheidemann:
Toccata in G
Scheidt:
Postlude: Benedicamus Domino à 6 (modus pleno organo pedaliter)
Ein kindelein so lobelich
Da Jesus an dem Kreuze
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, for organ, SSWV 496
Schütz:
Psalm 84: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, SWV 29
Ich weiß, daß mein Erlöser lebt, SWV 393
Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, SWV 386
So fahr ich hin zu Jesu Christ SWV 379
Die mit Tränen säen werden mit Freuden ernten SWV 378
Psalm 130: Aus der Tiefe ruf ich, Herr, zu dir, SWV 25
Psalm 8: Herr, unser Herrscher, SWV 27
Cantate Domino canticum novum SWV 81
Deutsches Magnificat, SWV 494 'Meine Seele erhebt den Herren'
Psalm 98: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, SWV 35
Psalm 150: Alleluja! Lobet den Herren in seinem Heiligtum SWV 38
Edward Batting (organ)
Sweelinck:
Puer nobis nascitur C 12
John Kitchen (solo organ)
The National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Mike Brewer |
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ID: DCD34057 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Podkolekce: Harpsichord St Cecilia’s Hall is the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Scotland, dating from 1763. In 1968 it became home to the Raymond Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments. This already world famous collection was further enhanced in 2005 when the University of Edinburgh received the extraordinary gift of 22 historic keyboard instruments from Rodger and Lynne Mirrey; the galleries at St Cecilia’s Hall now house one of the two most comprehensive collections of early keyboard instruments in the world. John Kitchen’s demonstration recital couples music with instrument in a way that informs and entertains.
Track listing
Double-manual harpsichord (4478), Luigi Baillon, Cyteux, 1755
Louis Couperin (1626-1661) 1-5 Suite in C major
Triple-fretted clavichord (4486), possibly Flemish, c. 1620
Two Renaissance dances anon. Dutch 16th century 6 Almande prynce, anon. early 16th century 7 Fusi pavana piana
Grand pianoforte (4492), Johann Friedrich Kuhlbörs, Breslau, c. 1805
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) 8 Adagio in G (Hob. XV/22) 9 Fantasia in C (Hob. XVII/4)
Single-manual harpsichord (4479), Thomas Barton, London, 1709
Henry Purcell (1659-1695) 10-14 Suit of Lessons in C , John Blow (1649-1708) 15 Mortlack's Ground
Unfretted clavichord (4487), possibly Dresden, c.1740
Johann Jacob Froberger (1616-1667) 16 Lamento sopra la dolora perdita della Real Msta. Di Ferdinando IV, Ré de Romani
J.S. Bach (1685-1750) 17-19 Suite in F minor BWV 823
Virginal (4484), Honofrio Guarracino, Naples, 1678
Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1710) 20 Alemanda 21 Corrente
Single-manual harpsichord (4471), Bernardinus de Trasuntinis, Venice, 1574
William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) 22 Pavan: Bray [MB XXVIII, 59a, b] 23 Galliard,
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), 24 Toccata nona (1637)
Single-manual harpsichord (4473), Franciscus de Paulinis, Rimini, 1725
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) 25 Toccata decima in F
Grand pianoforte (4490), John Broadwood, London, 1793
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) 26-28 Three Songs Without Words
Total playing time [75:48] |
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ID: DCD34056 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Choral CollectionWorld Premiere Recordings.
Best known as a composer of exquisitely quirky miniatures for accordion or piano solo, Howard Skempton has in recent years developed an equally strong affinity for the choral medium. The Exon Singers' programme on this brand new disc includes a new Missa brevis composed especially for the recording, alongside songs and shorter choral pieces constituting a broad survey of Skempton's output over the past twenty-five years.
Track listing
Howard Skempton
1. Upon my lap my sovereign sits
2. O Saviour of the World
3. Locus iste
4. The Song of Songs
5. O Life! for baritone and organ
6. Nature's Fire for organ
7. Adam lay y-bounden
Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (Edinburgh Service)
8. Magnificat
9. Nunc dimittis
Lamentations for baritone and theorbo
10. How sits this city
11. I am the man
12. The anointed Lord
13. For oughtest thou, O Lord
14. Beati quorum via
Emerson Songs for soprano and baritone
15. Music
16. Brahma
17. Pan
18. Xenophanes
19. He wishes for the cloths of Heaven
20. Ave Virgo sanctissima
21-25. Missa brevis (2008)
26. Ostende nobis Domine
27. Recessional for organ
Total playing time [71:16] |
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ID: DCD34055 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Chamber MusicPodkolekce: Quartet All world premiere recordings
The elder statesman in Scotland's music scene, Robert Crawford has throughout his life lavished intense care over every one of his compositions. The Edinburgh Quartet and pianist Nicholas Ashton are intimately acquainted with Crawford's music and mirror the composer's attention to detail in a long overdue survey of this lovingly-crafted music.
Track listing
1. Sonata Breve (1991)
2. Quintet (2005) Sonata No. 2, Op. 5 (1951)
3. Allegro e caloroso
4. Prestissimo, scherzo
5. Arioso, poco lento
6. Finale, vivace Six Bagatelles, Op. 3 (1947)
7. Allegretto scherzando
8. Dirge, Grave
9. Scherzo, Prestamente
10. Alla marcia
11. Tempo di menuetto, poco lento
12. Allegretto scherzando
13. A Saltire Sonata (1991)
Total playing time [64.44] |
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ID: DCD34054 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Choral CollectionPodkolekce: Choir The massed voices of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain are ideally suited to the choral music of Henryk Mikolaj Górecki, music of a monumental radiance which demands a huge and rich sonority. Alongside the ever-popular Totus Tuus, this resplendent recording also contains two recent works here receiving their premieres on disc - the luminous Lobgesang and the thrillingly massive Salve Sidus Polonorum, for choir, organ, two pianos and percussion.
Górecki (1933-2010) made his reputation as a leader of the Polish avant-garde in the 1950s, with his early works marking ‘the most colourful and vibrant expression of the new Polish wave.’ Inspired by folk and religious influences, and demonstrating a clear affinity with the likes of Szymanowski and Bartók, the emotional power and clarity of his music continues to radiate and inspire. Tracing his choral works from the Psalm settings of 1972 to music written in his final decade, this disc provides a fascinating insight into one of the most unique musical voices of the twentieth century.
Track listing
1 Euntes Ibant Et Flebant Op. 32
2 Lobgesang Op. 76
3 Totus Tuus Op. 60
Salve, Sidus Polonorum Op. 72
4 I. Per Merita Sancti Adalberti
5 II. Swiety Wojciechu Patronie Nasz Drogi
6 III. Salve, Sidus Polonorum
7 Amen Op. 35
Total playing time [62:02] |
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ID: DCD34053 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: BaroquePodkolekce: Harpsichord John Kitchen (1755 Kirkman Harpsichord from the Raymond Russell Collection)
Handel’s overtures had an independent life almost from their inception, and the practice of performing them on keyboard instruments has a similarly long pedigree, beginning with a number of transcriptions made by the composer himself. Keyboard specialist John Kitchen virtuosically evokes Handel’s orchestral palette in the welter of timbres and colours which he summons forth from Jacob Kirckman’s 1755 harpsichord, a classic instrument from the very apex of the English harpsichord-building tradition.
Track listing
1-4 Overture to the Occasional Oratorio
5-7 Overture to Athalia
8-9 Overture to Radamisto
10-13 Suite in A (HWV 454)
14-17 Overture to Samson
18-21 Overture to Saul
22-27 Suite in G (HWV 450)
28-30 Overture to Il Pastor Fido
31-34 Overture to Teseo
35-38 Overture to Rinaldo
Total playing time [79:50] |
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ID: DCD34052 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Vocal CollectionPodkolekce: Choir East meets West on this new recording as two great singing traditions are brought together, to thrilling effect. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the three Baltic states have emerged as powerhouses of choral innovation and imagination. Mike Brewer and the NYCGB bring all their customary fervour and virtuosity to bear on this programme of masterworks from three of Europe's smallest, yet musically richest, countries.
Track listing
Vaclovas Augustinas (b1959)
1. Tau Bet Kokios Sutemos Šviesios
Mindaugas Urbaitis (b1952)
2. Lacrimosa
Augustinas
3. Hymne à St Martin
Peteris Plakidis (b1947)
4-8. Nolemtiba (Destiny): Symphony for Choir
Galina Grigorjeva (b1962)
9-14. Svjatki: Choir Concerto
Gabriel Jackson (b1962)
15. Cantus Maris Baltici
Total playing time [76:59] |
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ID: DCD34051 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír Best known for a series of works for solo instruments and orchestra - including a highly successful concerto for his own instrument, the cello - Hafliði Hallgrímsson is also a master of the epigrammatic miniature. The piano music on this disc spans his career from 1963 to 2008, and the brilliant young pianist Simon Smith is a vital advocate of its varied colours, textures and resonances.
Track listing
1 - 3. Fley
4 - 10. Sketches in Time
11 - 15. Bagatelles
16 - 20. Five Pieces
21 - 30. Ten Pieces
31 - 34. Four Icelandic Folksongs
35 - 40. Homage to Mondrian
Total playing time [78:14] |
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ID: DCD34049 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Podkolekce: Trumpet Track Listing
1. Eddie McGuire (b. 1948) Prelude 22 (The Big Bang)
2. John Maxwell Geddes (b. 1941) The Trouble with Tritons
3. John Maxwell Geddes Knight Errant
4. John Maxwell Geddes Velvet Rooms
5. Rory Boyle (b.1951) Ceremony After A Fire Raid *
6-8. Peter Maxwell Davies (b.1934) Litany for a ruined chapel between sheep and shore
9. John Maxwell Geddes Resident Villain, or The Reform of Rank Bajin
10. John Maxwell Geddes Etude d'éxécution transcendante
11. John Maxwell Geddes Muse Lane
12. William Sweeney (b. 1950) Paraphrase on ‘Pro Patria'
13. Mark-Anthony Turnage (b.1960) An Aria (with dancing)
Total playing time [79:59]
* Annique Burms mezzo-soprano |
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ID: DCD34048 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Choral CollectionPodkolekce: Choral and Organ The Choir of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, offers a sumptuous programme of jewels from the anthem tradition whose repertoire spans five centuries. Under the luminous direction of Timothy Byram-Wigfield, and in the luxurious resonance of St George’s Chapel, the choir resounds with exhilarating energy, at once arresting and awe-inspiring.
Track listing
1 I was glad when they said unto me
Sir C. Hubert H. Parry (1848-1918)
2 How lovely is Thy dwelling place
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
3 O Saviour of the world
Rev. Sir F. A.G. Ouseley (1825 -1889)
4 Evening Hymn
Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877-1950)
5 O sacrum convivium
Thomas Tallis (c.1505 -1585)
6 Jesu, joy of man’s desiring
J. S. Bach (1685 -1750)
7 Salve Regina
Christopher Tye (c.1505 -1573)
8 Blessed City, heavenly Salem
Sir Edward Bairstow (1874-1946)
9 Panis angelicus
César Franck (1822-1890)
10 Jubilate Deo
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
11 For He shall give
His angels charge over thee
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
12 A Gaelic Blessing
John Rutter (b.1945)
13 Hail, gladdening light
Charles Wood (1866-1926)
14 The Whirlwind*
Sir Walter Parratt (1841-1924)
15 Libera nos, salva nos I
John Sheppard (c.1520 -c.1563)
16 O how glorious is the kingdom
Basil Harwood (1859-1949)
Total Playing Time: [69:42] |
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