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ID: DCD34091
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Kolektion: Chamber MusicCrawford, R:
String Quartet No. 1
String Quartet No. 2
String Quartet No. 3
Edinburgh Quartet
AboutListenReviews.The Edinburgh Quartet are Scotland's foremost exponents of new music; they have enjoyed a long relationship with Robert Crawford, who is now surely Scotland's musical elder statesman. His three quartets are given characteristically vivid readings on this recording. They offer a fascinating overview of Crawford's development over the last forty years and the second in particular - with its inspired wit and infectious musicality - deserves far greater renown. |
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ID: DCD34090
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Kolektion: InstrumentalSubkolektion: Piano
Beethoven:
Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 'Waldstein'
Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 'Tempest'
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110
David Wilde (piano)
AboutReviews.These three piano sonatas outline a progression from the despair of the Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2, written at the same time as the start of the famous ‘Heiligenstadt Testament’, when Ludwig van Beethoven’s realisation that his deafness was complete and permanent drove him to contemplate suicide, via his courageous fight back, brilliantly expressed in the irrepressible optimism of the Piano Sonata No. 21 in C, ‘Waldstein’, Op. 53 towards the lofty spiritual aspirations of the Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat, Op. 110.
50 years after his victory in the International Liszt-Bartók Piano Competition David Wilde’s masterful interpretations are the fruit of a lifetime’s experience of studying and performing these towering masterpieces. |
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ID: DCD34089
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Kolektion: Organ CollectionSubkolektion: Organ
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]
Carleton Etherington (organ)
Few ecclesiastical buildings in the United Kingdom can boast possessing two pipe organs; of those that can, fewer still can rival the quality of the ‘Grove’ and ‘Milton’ organs in Tewkesbury’s magnificent Norman abbey. It must have been something of a coup for the organ builders Michell & Thynne to hear the legendary organist William Thomas Best proclaim their latest instrument (on show at the Liverpool Exhibition of 1886) to be “the finest organ of its kind that I have ever played upon”. Their ‘model organ’ was designed to be as flexible as possible within the confines of the smallest number of stops, and the result was an immediate success: its first appearance at the 1885 Inventions Exhibition in London caused something of a sensation amongst the organ cognoscenti. The blind organist Alfred Hollins, not long out of college, was one of a number of players who gave regular recitals on the instrument both at the London exhibition, and subsequently the following year in Liverpool.
Tewkesbury Abbey’s other organ known as the ‘Milton’ is a happy example of enlargement and rebuilding over the decades, resulting in its current incarnation as a flexible and thoroughly contemporary instrument capable of interpreting a wide spectrum of the repertoire This recording demonstrates the unique qualities of each instrument in a programme of concert organ works by some of the finest organists and composers of the past two centuries. |
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ID: DCD34087
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Kolektion: Choral CollectionSubkolektion: Choir
Stanford:
Evening Service (Magnificat & Nunc dimittis) in G major, Op. 81
Magnificat. Nunc Dimittis.
The Lord is my shepherd
Bible Songs and Six Hymns Op. 113
For lo, I raise up, Op. 145
Laurence Kilsby (treble), Nicholas Scott (tenor), Christopher Borrett (bass) & Carleton Etherington (organ)
Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, Benjamin Nicholas (director)
For their fourth recording for Delphian, the boys and men of Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum turn their attention to that doyen of Anglican church music, Charles Villiers Stanford. Alongside familiar gems from the Evensong repertoire, sung with characteristic vigour and freshness, the programme includes the six littleknown Bible Songs, each followed by its associated hymn. Amongst the soloists - all members of the choir - is Laurence Kilsby, 2009 BBC Chorister of the Year, making his solo debut on disc. |
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ID: DCD34111
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Subkolektion: Guitar
Gordon Ferries guitars, lute & theorbo
Gordon Ferries’ fifth solo disc for Delphian spans two centuries of music for kings and courtiers. Performing on four instruments matched to the periods in question, and captured in sumptuous recorded sound, Ferries takes in the chansons and elegant counterpoint of sixteenth-century France’s cultivated humanist courts and the exquisite melancholy and refined dance forms from the private chambers of Louis XIV’s Versailles, and investigates the place of guitar music at the heart of the decadence, sexual intrigue and Baroque splendour of Charles II’s Restoration court.
Gordon Ferries has established himself as one of the UK’s leading exponents of the baroque guitar. He has performed in venues and festivals across the UK and in Europe both as a soloist and in ensembles including The Scottish Ensemble, The Scottish Early Music Consort and the Edinburgh Quartet.
Track listing
Robert de Visée
1 Allemande ‘La Royalle’
Adrian Le Roy
2 Pavane ‘Est il conclud’
3 Gaillarde plus diminuée
Francesco Corbetta
4-8 Suite in D major
Gregor Brayssing
9 Fantasie des Grues
10 Fantasie no. 5
11 Fantasie no. 6
Claudin de Sermisy, arr. Pierre Attaingnant anon., arr. Attaingnant
12 Une bergerote 1
13 Une bergerote 2
Charles Hurel
14-18 Suite in C majorn
Francesco Corbetta
19 Allemande ‘La Royalle’
20 Sarabande ‘La Stuarde’
Jean-Baptiste Lully, arr. Hurel
21 Les Pellerins
Pierre Certon, arr. Guillaume Morlaye
22 ‘Robin’
Adrian Le Roy
23 Almande
Pierre Sandrin, arr. Morlaye
24‘Jay veu que j’estoys franc et maistre’
[?]Guillaume Le Heurteur, arr. Morlaye
25 ‘Regretz soucy et peine’
Robert de Visée
26-34 Suite in D minor
35 Allemande ‘La Royalle’
Total playing time [72:51] |
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ID: DCD34110
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Kolektion: BaroqueSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
Mary Bevan soprano
Ed Lyon tenor
Ludus Baroque
Richard Neville-Towle director
Following the widespread critical acclaim of their debut recording, Alexander's Feast, Ludus Baroque brings their celebrated verve to Handel's Song for St Cecilia's Day. Coupled with his miniature cantata for tenor, Look Down, Harmonious Saint, which Handel wrote to supplement performances of Alexander's Feast, and with the Concerto Grosso in B flat, written in his fruitful autumn of 1739, Handel approaches the setting of this second text by John Dryden with the same extraordinary vividness of detail and metrical virtuosity as Alexander's Feast. 'What passion cannot music raise and quell?' the answer is that it can raise and quell them all: martial, erotic, sacred ... but as music had, in the beginning, been the divine principle of cosmic order, so, on the Final Day, it will be the force that dissolves the universe.
Track listing
Ode for St Cecilia’s Day
1 Ouverture
2 From harmony, from heav’nly harmony
3 From harmony, from heav’nly harmony
4 What passion cannot music raise and quell?
5 The trumpet’s loud clangour
6 La Marche
7 The soft complaining flute
8 Sharp violins proclaim
9 But oh! what art can teach?
10 Orpheus could lead the savage race
11 But bright Cecilia rais’d the wonder high’r
12 As from the pow’r of sacred lays
Concerto Grosso in B flat Op. 6 No. 7
13 Largo - Allegro
14 Largo e Piano
15 Andante
16 Hornpipe
Look Down, Harmonious Saint
17 Look down, harmonious saint Musick! That all-persuading art Sweet accents all your numbers grace
Total playing time [79:55] |
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ID: DCD34108
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Kolektion: Folk MusicAlasdair Robert
Mairi Campbell
Olivia Chaney
Jim Moray
Concerto Caledonia
David McGuinness
Another hallmark collaboration, this album was created by Concerto Caledonia and guests during a week’s residency in the Suffolk countryside at Aldeburgh. Traditional and original songs are interspersed with old and new tunes from Scotland, all informed by the group’s magpie diversity and by Britten’s folksong arrangements, which they found in Aldeburgh’s library. The resulting alchemy of nu-folk with an early music sensibility defies categorisation..
Track listing
1 The Foggy Dew
trad. arr. Concerto Caledonia
2 The Salley Gardens
words W.B. Yeats music trad. arr. Benjamin
Britten
3 Bonnie Susie Cleland
trad. arr. Concerto Caledonia
4 My Lord of Marche Paven / Galliard: Or Voy-Je Bien / The Trees They Do Grow High / James Lauder / Nicolas de La Grotte / trad.
arr. Concerto Caledonia
5 Swimming in the Longest River
Olivia Chaney
6 Up in the Morning Early
Trad. arr. Concerto Caledonia
7 The Sacred Nine and the Primal Horde
Alasdair Roberts
8 Mack Beth / Sheugare Candie
trad. arr. Concerto Caledonia
9 Psalm 124 / The Freedom Come-All-Ye / The Red-Haired Boy
words William Whittingham, Scottish Psalter 1635 / Hamish Henderson
music arr. David Peebles / John McLellan / trad. arr. Concerto Caledonia
10 Daddy Oh, I’m Hoovering
Olivia Chaney
11 Delighted / The Lincolnshire Poacher
David McGuinness / trad. arr. Concerto Caledonia
12 False Lover John
trad. arr. Concerto Caledonia
13 OK, I’ll Count to 8
Ivor Cutler / Benjamin Britten
14 Laddie Lie Near Me
trad. arr. Concerto Caledonia
15 Losing What You Find
Olivia Chaney
16 A Scots Tune / O Can Ye Sew Cushions
trad. arr. Concerto Caledonia
17 The King’s Horses
Olivia Chaney
Total playing time [72:59] |
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ID: DCD34128
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Kolektion: Classical PeriodConcerto Caledonia
A chamber-scale Concerto Caledonia bring to life a key figure from the Golden Age of Scottish fiddle music,
when the publishing of fiddle music books was in full spate and the familiar forms of strathspey, reel and jig were taking shape.
'Red Rob' Mackintosh, named in the customary Gaelic fashion after the colour of his hair, found himself a place in the orchestra of the Edinburgh Musical Society and set up business as a teacher. (1783) was his first collection, published the year before his ill-fated move to Aberdeen, and it represents his desire both to understand the musical world around him as fully as possible, and to forge himself a career within it. Concerto Caledonia have realised the music from within its pages, shedding light on an age when, not yet 'traditional', such dance genres still bore the imprint of their individual composers.
Concerto Caledonia is one of Scotland's premiere earlymusic ensembles with a reputation for reviving littleknown but important music. With their third disc on Delphian the band bring vital part of Scotland's heritage to a wider audience with the music of 'Red Rob'.
Track listing
1 Capt. Macduff’s Delight - Miss Katty Troter’s Reel
2 Minuetto
3 Miss Grant of Grant’s Reel
4 Miss Grace Stewart’s Minuet
5 Gavotta
6 Air
7 Lady Helenora Home’s Reel - Miss Jessy Dalrymple’s Reel - Miss Stewart’s Reel - Miss Carre’s Reel
8 The Duchess of Gordon’s Delight
9 Miss Campbell’s Reel
10 The Diamond Reel - Miss Burnet of Monboddo’s
11 Minuet - Quick Step
12 Lady Betty Boyle’s Reel - Miss Scott’s Reel
13 Miss Bewment’s Minuet - Air
14 Lady Betty Cochran’s Reel
15 Minuetto
16 Lady Emelia Ker’s Minuet
17 Gavotta
18 Miss Henderson’s Minuet - Lady Wallace’s Reel
19 Miss Pringle’s Reel
20 Miss Baird’s Minuet
21 Gavotta
22 Allegro
23 Largo
24 Jigg
25 March
Total playing time [66:18] |
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ID: DCD34125
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Kolektion: InstrumentalSubkolektion: Cello
Britten’s meeting with Rostropovich in 1960 was a watershed, the great Russian cellist becoming the primary collaborator of his later years, and inspiring a whole series of masterworks. Among them are the three suites for solo cello, written as a conscious homage to those of Bach (there were originally to have been six). Intriguingly, the Britten scholar Paul Kildea sees the first as a coda to the War Requiem, the second as a snapshot of a lifetime of musical obsessions, and the third as reaching back to much earlier works and suffused with primordial Russian melody. The young virtuoso Philip Higham, one of the only British cellists in generations to have won top prizes at three major international competitions, brings a youthful vigour and deep intelligence to these seminal masterpieces, resulting in performances of commanding authority and intensity.
Track listing
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
1 1-9 Suite for Cello No. 1, Op. 72
10-14 Suite for Cello No. 2, Op. 80
15-23 Suite for Cello No. 3, Op. 87
Philip Higham cello
Total playing time [69:06] |
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ID: DCD34122
CDs: 1
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Kolektion: Christmas MusicSubkolektion: Organ
Choir of Merton College, Oxford
Peter Phillips & Benjamin Nicholas conductors
Anna Steppler organ
The beginning of Advent is celebrated with a particular solemnity at Merton. For its second recording the college choir explores the musical riches that adorn this most special time in the church’s year, centring on a newly commissioned sequence of Magnificat antiphons from seven leading composers.
Founded in 2008, the new Choir of Merton College, Oxford is led by newly appointed Organist and fulltime Director of Music Benjamin Nicholas, and Reed Rubin Director of Music Peter Philips. The choir is rapidly emerging as a major force in collegiate choral music. The disc is recorded in the beautiful environs of Merton College Chapel, which has stood at the heart of the College as a place of worship for almost 750 years.
Track listing
1. Ecce concipies -Matthew Martin
2. Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming
arr. David Blackwell
3. Rorate caeli desuper -William Byrd
4. Advent Antiphon - James MacMillan
5. Drop down, ye heavens, from above -Judith Weir
6. Alvus tumescit virginis - Michael Praetorius
Seven Advent Antiphons
commissioned by the Chaplain of Merton College
7. O Sapientia - Howard Skempton
8. O Adonai - John Tavener
9. O Radix Jesse - Rihards Dubra
10. O Clavis David - Gabriel Jackson
11. O Oriens - Cecilia McDowall
12. O Rex Gentium -Matthew Martin
13. O Emmanuel - E-riks Ešenvalds
14. Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen -Anton Heiller
15. Ecce Virgo concipiet - William Byrd
16. Es ist ein Ros entsprungen - Michael Praetorius
arr. Jan Sandström
17. Ave Maria - Tomás Luis de Victoria |
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