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ID: DCD34084 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subkolektion: Piano Alexander McCall Smith, narrator
On this second recording for Delphian, the Fidelio Trio bring together works by three of Scotland's leading composers. Alexander McCall Smith narrates Sally Beamish's The Seafarer Trio with a mingled intimacy and plangency, lending his inimitable luster to this collection of world premiere recordings.
Track listing
1 Sally Beamish (b. 1956) The Seafarer Trio
2-4 Judith Weir (b. 1954) Piano Trio Two
5-12 Nigel Osborne (b. 1948) The Piano Tuner
Total playing time [57:24] |
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ID: DCD34083 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subkolektion: Quartet Fell Clarinet Quartet:
Colin Blamey, clarinet & bass clarinet
Helen Bywater, clarinet & C clarinet
Marianne Rawles, clarinet & Eb clarinet
Lenny Sayers, clarinet & bass clarinet
The Fells' journey through Eastern Europe takes in sophisticated reworkings of Bartók and earthy reimaginings of klezmer, and introduces some unfamiliar names along the way. The four clarinets lend a wonderfully suggestive reediness to these laments and dances which enhances the music's rustic tone. With the Fell Quartet as your guide, this whirlwind tour of Eastern Europe is sure to be seductive, virtuosic, and not without some moments of real grit.
Track listing
1 Béla Bartók (1881-1945), arr. Gregor Blamey: Ostinato
2-4 Lenny Sayers (b. 1977): Three Klezmer Melodies
5-8 Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000): Early Hungarian Dances from the 17th Century
9-14 Bartók arr. Gregor Blamey/Andrew Sparling: Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm
15 Jirí Hudec (1923-1996): Rapsodia per Quattro
16 Sayers: Mazel Tov!
17-20 Antonín Tucapský (b. 1928): A Little Afternoon Music
21-28 Farkas: Scenes from Hungary
29 Sayers: Raisins and Almonds
Premiere recordings except tracks 58, 10-12, 14 & 21-28
Total playing time [62:02] |
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ID: DCD34082 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Chamber MusicSubkolektion: Quartet ‘Mátyás Seiber’s three string quartets span his career, from the astonishingly assured student essay of the first quartet, composed at the age of just eighteen, to the mature synthesis of his third and final Quartetto Lirico. Seiber’s work was nourished by several of the twentieth century’s most significant stylistic trends, from jazz and serialism to the folk music of his native Hungary. He was also, like many of the mid-century’s most important artists, an émigré and an influential teacher; Hugh Wood’s booklet essay pays tribute to his lasting influence on a generation of British composers.
Track listing
Mátyás Seiber (1905-60)
String Quartet No 1
1 Maestoso - Allegro moderato
2 Lento
3 Rondo: Allegro
String Quartet No 2
4 Allegro marcato - Allegro giusto
5 Intermezzo: Alla “Blues”
6 Presto
Quartetto Lirico (String Quartet No 3)
7 Andante amabile
8 Allegretto scherzando e leggiero
9 Lento espressivo
Total playing time [60:17] |
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ID: DCD34080 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subkolektion: Choir ‘Coming from backgrounds of both English choral music and jazz, I have always been obsessed by musical connections. I love to perform music of one culture with singers of another, to help performers to share an awareness of music in different contexts.
I have had the good fortune to travel around the world every three years with the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. In South Africa I became fascinated by the rhythms and sounds of the music of the African continent. Mexico and Cuba opened up new vistas of musical connection for me, from elderly musicians performing the son jarocho in village tavernas in Veracruz to Afro- Caribbean jazz ensembles performing unbelievably complex music which arose out of that mix of cultures.
The pieces of choral music found here are similarly hybrid, because in most cases they combine elements from more than one source …’
The internationally-renowned National Youth Choir is peerless in bringing to life Brewer's transcontinental choral imaginings. Headed up by the first commercial recording of Mike’s Hamba Lulu, the programme journeys us from the Icelandic tundra to the sultry jazz clubs of Latin America. Is your hi-fi ready to go?
Track listing
1 Hamba Lulu (Zulu wedding song)
2 Holday danaa (Bengali bird song)
3 Molihua (China) Listen
4 Pueblo Sunrise Song (New Mexico, USA)
5 Ej lásko, lásko (Moravian folksong)
6 Tango Cappella (Argentina)
7 Kvölda tekur (Icelandic folksong)
8 Meguru (Kavango song from Namibia)
9 Tourdion (France)
10 Izintakana (Zulu bird song)
11 Korobushka (Russia/Ukraine)
12 Pokarekare (Maori love song)
13 Yelli bo'dek dhaya fikri (Tunisia)
14 El cascabel (Mexico)
Total playing time [68:02] |
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ID: DCD34079 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subkolektion: Piano An influential figure both personally and musically, Thomas Wilson was the leading light in a group of composers whose vision and technical assurance brought an international modernism into 20th-century Scottish music. In the chamber works collected here, moments of extraordinary stillness continually release into fast, propulsive music whose compelling energies are matched by the individual and collective virtuosity of Simon Smith, Allan Neave and the Edinburgh Quartet.
Track listing
Thomas Wilson
1 Cancion (1977) for guitar Listen
2-3 Piano Sonata (1964)
4 Piano Trio (1966)* Listen
5-7 Three Pieces (1961) for guitar
8 -10 String Quartet No 3 (1958)* Listen
11 Incunabula (1983)
Total playing time [77:56]
*premiere recordings |
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ID: DCD34077 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Christmas MusicSubkolektion: Organ Thomas Laing-Reilly (the organ of St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh) St Cuthbert's Change-Ringers
Situated in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle, St Cuthbert’s Church was the first parish church in Scotland to hold candlelit services on Christmas Eve. The two-thousand-strong congregation was regularly joined by people standing in the aisles! Today, the organ continues to combine its role of supporting the singing with solo performance of varied repertoire. Director of Music Thomas Laing-Reilly has at his hands an instrument seemingly able to speak any language. Its vast palette is demonstrated with striking clarity on his debut recording, in a range of repertory which crosses national borders with disarming ease.
Track listing
1 William T. Best (1826-97)
A Christmas Fantasy on Old English Carols
2 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Chorale: Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her
3 Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her
4 Johann Pachelbel
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her (Fughetta)
5 Johann Bernhard Bach (1676-1749)
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her
6 Johann Sebastian Bach
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her, BWV738
7 Max Reger (1873-1916)
Weihnachten, Op. 145 No. 3
8 Jean-François Dandrieu (1682-1738)
Noël cette Journée
9 Jean-François Dandrieu
Il n’est rien de plus tendre
10 Louis-Claude d’Aquin (1694-1772)
Noël X
11 Pierre Cochereau (1924-84), transcr. J. Filsell
Variations on ‘Adeste Fideles’
12 Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)
Noël Ecossais
13 Jeanne Demessieux (1921-68)
Adeste Fideles (Musette)
14 Jean Langlais (1907-91)
Noël Breton (Huit Chants de Bretagne)
15 John Ireland (1879-1962)
The Holy Boy (A Carol of the Nativity)
16 Sir Arthur Somervell (1863-1937)
Shepherd’s Cradle Song
17 Alfred Hollins (1865-1942)
Christmas Cradle Song
18 Garth Edmundson (1900-71)
Vom Himmel hoch (Toccata-Prelude IV)
19 The Bells of St Cuthbert’s Church
St Cuthbert’s Change-Ringers
Total playing time [77.50] |
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ID: DCD34075 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subkolektion: Choral and Organ A significant Christmas release: Geoffrey Webber has put together a fantastic programme which Delphian had fun recording in the glorious acoustics of St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast. Fresh from their 2009 Gramophone Editor's Choice, Webber's choir has put together an intriguing programme in which medieval works illuminate contemporary settings by some of the UK's finest living composers. From the plangent innocence of Sweeney's The Innumerable Christ to the shining antiphony of Burrell's Creator of the Stars of Night, this selection will seduce. Caius, as we've come to expect, combine polish with verve, Webber's meticulous attention to detail floodlit by the bathing acoustics of St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast.
Track listing
1 Diana Burrell - Creator of the Stars of Night
2 Judith Bingham - Annunciation
3 Stuart MacRae - Adam lay y-bounden
4 13th-c. English - Edi beo thu
5 Richard Causton -Cradle Song
6 Francis Pott -That yongë child
7 John Dunstaple - Quam pulchra es
8 Gabriel Jackson -Salus aeterna
9 16th-c. English - Salvator mundi Domine
10 Howard Skempton - To Bethlem did they go
11 Judith Bingham - God would be born in thee
12 John Redford - Tui sunt caeli
13 Howard Skempton - Into this world, this day did come
14 William Sweeney - The Innumerable Christ
15 12th-c. English - Verbum Patris umanatur
16 Diana Burrell - Christo paremus cantica
17 Robin Holloway - Christmas Carol
18 15th-c. English - Nowell sing we
19 Judith Bingham - Incarnation with shepherds dancing
20 Gabriel Jackson - Nowell sing we Listen
Total playing time [75:28]
Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber |
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ID: DCD34074 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Choral CollectionSubkolektion: Choir The Song of Songs stands apart from its Biblical surroundings as one of the supreme love poems of world literature, a celebration of erotic love in the form of a dialogue between a bridegroom and his bride, invoking all the senses - the fragrance of wine, blossom, fruits and spices. Ranging widely over five centuries,from the relative asperity of Dunstaple to the lush exoticism of Daniel-Lesur, this cherrypicked assortment of sweetmeats is given exultant life by Mike Brewer and Laudibus.
Brewer and his award-winning chamber choir Laudibus have unearthed some rare and precious gems in this recording of a cappella choral music by one of England’s best-loved composers. Little-known works both early and late nestle alongside repertory staples such as the glorious Mass in G minor, in a programme which displays Vaughan Williams’ indebtedness to both the sacred and secular instincts of his Elizabethan precursors.
Vaughan Williams:
The Souls of the Righteous
Greensleeves
Three Shakespeare Songs
Prayer to the Father of Heaven
Mass in G minor
O vos omnes
Ca' the Yowes
Love is a Sickness
Three Elizabethan Partsongs
Silence and Music
Heart's Music
Laudibus, Mike Brewer |
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ID: DCD34073 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Chamber MusicSubkolektion: Piano and Cello Giles Swayne's works for cello exhibit an astonishing array of moods and colours. The restless beauty of Four Lyrical Pieces and strident romanticism of the Sonata offer remarkable counterpoint to his sublime Suite for solo cello. Canto seduces us with its intoxicating symbiosis of traditional African and Western art music.
Swayne:
Four Lyrical Pieces, Op. 6
Suite No. 1 for solo cello, Op. 111
Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 103
Canto for cello, Op. 31
Robert Irvine (cello) & Fali Pavri (piano) |
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ID: DCD34092 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Chamber Ensemble Michael Marra
Mr McFall's Chamber
'Marra's music has broad horizons. His songs' subjects roam across Mull and Shetland, over the Canadian prairies, to Schenectady, New York home of swing-era jazz broadcasting and down into Mexico. But his muse is governed by sound Dundonian principles, including the futility of going in the huff and the folly of vanity.'
- The Herald, May 2010
‘Mr McFall's chamber are the jewel in the Scottish musical crown, continually pushing the envelope of repertoire and style.''
- The Scotsman, June 2010
Track listing
1 Intro
2 The Lonesome Death of Francis Clarke
Michael Marra arr David McGuinness
3 The Slave’s Lament
Robert Burns arr Robert McFall
4 Intro
5 Hamish (the goalie)
Michael Marra arr Robert McFall
6 The Beast
Michael Marra arr Robert McFall
7 Intro
8 Niel Gow’s Apprentice
Michael Marra arr David McGuinness
9 Intro
10 Happed in Mist
Michael Marra arr Robert McFall
11 Intro
12 The Clock
Michael Marra arr Robert McFall
13 Monkey Hair
Michael Marra arr Robert McFall
14 Intro
15 Schenectady Calling Peerie Willie Johnson
Michael Marra arr Robert McFall
16 Intro
17 Pius Porteous
Michael Marra arr Robert McFall
18 Intro
19 Green Grow the Rashes
Robert Burns arr David McGuinness
20 Intro
21 Farlow
Michael Marra arr Robert McFall
22 Intro
23 Frida Kahlo’s visit to the Tay Bridge Bar
Michael Marra arr Robert McFall
Total playing time [60:58] |
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