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Russian and World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: NMCD016
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Songs
Cry, for 28 solo voices and electronics, is an epic work that describes the creation myth, contrasting intricate rhythmic figures with huge arching phrases, and close dissonances with massive major chords. |
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ID: NMCD014
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
The enigmatic and intensely charged music of Bill Hopkins reflects the avant-garde sound-world of the 1960s with characteristic immediacy and quiet energy; Nine or Ten Osannas, by Anthony Gilbert - a close friend and ally - completes the disc. |
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ID: NMCD025
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Chamber Ensemble
A celebration of the unique contribution to contemporary music of this outstanding artist who, over the past 35 years, has given more than 350 world premieres: this collection includes songs by Anthony Payne, Brian Elias and Alison Bauld, plus Judith Weir's tribute to Chagall ('Don't let that horse') and Anthony Gilbert's quirky Beastly Jingles. |
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ID: NMCD029
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Chamber Ensemble
A disc that reveals the striking diversity of Woolrich's chamber music: The intimacy of A Farewell contrasts with the larger scale 'machines for instruments', such as the title work. |
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ID: NMCD030
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
Three recordings from 1941, publicly available for the first time following transfer from the original 78rpm discs and lengthy subsequent treatment: the centrepiece is an off-air recording of the American premiere of Les Illuminations with Peter Pears. |
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ID: NMCD033
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Chamber Ensemble
Matthews's The Great Journey, a forceful and panoramic narrative of a 16th-century Spanish expedition to America, is complemented by the scherzo Fuga and Night's Mask, a darkly atmospheric setting of Fernando Pessoa's brooding sonnet. |
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ID: NMCD055
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Choir
Peter Paul Nash's complex, multi-layered Symphony No.1 was inspired by newspaper reports of atrocities carried out during the Gulf War; the expressive, technically innovative Apollinaire Choruses combine the sensual with the intellectual. |
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ID: NMCD167
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Chamber Ensemble
Jake Gardner, baritone
Gayle Hunnicutt, narrator
London Sinfonietta
Thea Musgrave, conductor
Red Byrd
Fretwork
Scottish Ensemble
Rich, powerful musical language and a strong sense of drama have made Thea Musgrave one of the most respected and exciting of living composers. Born in Edinburgh in 1928, she studied at the University of Edinburgh then in Paris, where she spent four years as a pupil of Nadia Boulanger, before establishing herself in London with her orchestral, choral, operatic and chamber works. She has lived in the US since 1970.
Musgrave’s ‘opera for radio’ sets a dreamlike tale of the American Civil War based on An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, a short story written in the late 19th century by Ambrose Bierce.
Thea Musgrave says .... These three works, though all very different and written decades apart, nevertheless share a common subject: conflict. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1981), a heart-breaking story from the American Civil war; Wild Winter I (1993), a setting of poems from many different countries and in several different languages about the inevitable losses and cruelties of war; and Green (2007), an abstract conflict of a life-giving force against its suffocating nemesis. |
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ID: NMCD094
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Vocal and Piano
NMC's second disc devoted to the music of Simon Holt brings together one of his earliest major works - the glittering Kites, depicting a Japanese kite fight - and the recent Emily Dickinson setting Boots of Lead, recorded at its premiere conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. It is joined by its companion work for solo cello, Feet of Clay, written for soloist Ulrich Heinen. The disc is completed by the ethereal eco-pavan, for piano and ensemble, and the dark, frenetic Lilith. |
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ID: NMCD093
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
This introduction to the music of Rupert Bawden features his chamber opera The Sailor's Tale - a counterpart to Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale and written for the same forces - setting Kevin Crossley-Holland's libretto on the life and loves of Horatio Nelson. Also on the disc are the panoramic Two Studies for Orchestra, based on the Tristan legend, and the energetic ensemble work The Donkey Dances. |
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