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ID: 5060192780109
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Vocal and Piano
This is the concluding CD in this Delius series which is the first ever complete recording of Delius’ songs for voice and piano. It includes 20 première recordings.
This volume includes all the songs which use French, German, Swedish and Danish texts, the Scandinavian ones being sung in English. The booklet contains full texts and extensive notes on each song. “…lovers of Delius’s music should snap up this disc.” (Vol.1) BBC Music Magazine |
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ID: 5060192780123
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Vocal and Piano
This is the first CD in a 2CD series which is the first ever complete recording of C W Orr’s songs for voice and piano. C W Orr is considered to be one of the greatest English song composers of the twentieth century and this collection includes 14 premiere recordings. This volume includes his largest group of Housman songs. The booklet contains full texts and extensive notes on each song. |
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ID: MNRCD114
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
Recorded, edited and mixed by Austin Ince December 2007 at Olympic Studio 1, London
Design Russell Mills (shed) www.russellmills.com
Co-design Michael Webster (storm) www.michael-webster.co.uk
Translations by Letizia Panizza
Drawings courtesy of the British Library © British Library Board
All rights reserved
The latest release on mn records is 8 Lust Songs - I sonetti lussuriosi’ released 2nd June 2008. It is a song cycle, commissioned by the 2007 Venice Biennale. It was first performed by Marie Angel with the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia, conducted by the composer, in the Arsenale, Venice, on 4 October 2007.
Nyman’s music is set to the erotic poems of the 16th century poet Pietro Aretino.
The poems were inspired by Marcantonio Raimondi’s engravings of couples in various positions of sexual intercourse. The poems and engravings have been called a Renaissance equivalent of the Kama Sutra. They caused huge outrage at the time of publication, banned by the Papal authorities and nearly all copies destroyed. They are the most important erotic texts of the period and have gone on to inspire writers and artists alike for centuries.
Marie Angel sings the male and female roles. As Nyman composed the music the words came to life for Marie and the characters revealed themselves to her. Her interpretation is thus not only key but unique, colourful and very entertaining. |
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ID: ALC001
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Guitar
The combination of voice and guitar is always a happy one - and somehow especially so when the repertoire is Spanish and Latin American! Cuban guitarist Ahmed Dickinson Cardenas and soprano Laura Mitchell join forces for an exploration of the soul. |
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ID: MNRCD108
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
The MN Records catalogue is significantly enriched with a second set of CDs to add to the 6 released in 2005. Two major albums are released on 24 July featuring Nyman's non-operatic vocal music:
Six Celan Songs/The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi and Acts of Beauty/Exit no Exit are new recordings that present compelling examples of Nyman's vibrant approach to word-setting, song structure and subject matter.
Six Celan Songs/The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi couples two of Michael Nyman's major vocal pieces of 1991 and 2001 and two favoured singers of the composer, Hilary Summers and Sarah Leonard.
Six Celan Songs is Michael Nyman's most profound song cycle, composed in 1990 for Ute Lemper.
Nyman selected six of Paul Celan's less hermetic texts, accidentally, perhaps, all featuring flower symbolism in a kind of 'negative theology', representing Celan's attempt as a poet to come to terms with the impossibility, according to Adorno, of writing poetry 'after Auschwitz'.
The songs, individually and collectively, express both the horror, the emptiness of the writer in exile and are cast in a musical language which attempts to 'reinvent' an imaginary emotional world related to the Romanian background in 1920s Bukovina, where Celan was born.
The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi, unlike the Six Celan Songs, deals directly with a war situation - an 18-month- old Kosovan boy left for dead during the Kosovo war, found and re-named by the Serbs and 6 months later reunited with his parents. It is the most recent in Nyman's series of collaborations with visual artists, in this case the American feminist/conceptualist Mary Kelly. Kelly provided the composer with a complex text in a simple ballad form which Nyman brilliantly subverts in his continuous 18-minute piece, written for Sarah Leonard and the Nyman Quartet and first performed surrounded by Kelly's visual representation of the text in the Santa Monica Museum of Art in 2001. |
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