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ID: SIGCD901
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Choral Collection
Tenebrae Consort is an outstanding group of musicians, with singers hand-picked from the award winning chamber choir Tenebrae. Known for their instinctive ensemble skills, the singers and instrumentalists are directed from within the Consort by Nigel Short who leads the group to attain music making of the highest quality. Focussing on the repertoire originally written for consort performance, particularly early music, Tenebrae Consort aim to shed new interpretative light on works through the combination of both passion and precision, creating an intimate and unique concert experience. On this recording they explore classic works at the very heart of the Medieval and early-Renaissance British Choral Tradition.
Sheppard, J:
In manus tuas I
Respond for Compline in Passiontide
Tallis:
Lamentations of Jeremiah I & II
Plainchant: Hymn for Passiontide: Pange lingua gloriosi
Compline for Passiontide: Deus in adiutorium, Antiphon, Chapter: Respond, Hymn: Cultor dei memento, Versicle & Response, Antiphon, Preces
Respond: In monte Oliveti
Litany after Lauds for Maundy Thursday
Respond: Tristis est anima mea
Tenebrae Consort, Nigel Short |
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ID: SIGCD394
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Subcollection: ChoirTodd:
Remembrance
No More Sorrow
Softly
For Peace
A Celtic Blessing
Precious Moment
Encircled
Agnus Dei
In this Place
Exalt Us
Tidings
Sanctus
O Lux Beata
Christus est stella
Tenebrae, English Chamber Orchestra, Nigel Short
Lux et Veritas (Light and Truth) is the new album from Will Todd with the professional chamber choir Tenebrae.
Todd’s music has a universal appeal and he has been hailed as “one of the UK’s most sought-after, versatile composers” (Tempo Magazine). For this collection of sumptuous new choral works Tenebrae are accompanied by the English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by the choir’s director Nigel Short. This new release follows Will Todd’s last choral album The Call of Wisdom, featuring music commissioned for HRH The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee service in St Paul’s Cathedral in 2012. |
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ID: SIGCD381
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Choral Collection
Subcollection: ChoirJackson, Gabriel:
The Voice of the Bard
Ruchill Linn
Airplane Cantata
Winter Heavens
Choral Symphony
Rex Lawson (pianola)
BBC Singers - David Hill and James Morgan, conductors
Gabriel Jackson was Associate Composer with the BBC Singers from 2010 to 2013 and this disc collects the very best of this unique collaboration between composer and professional choral ensemble. The central work 'Airplane Cantata', premiered by the Singers in 2011, is an evocative tribute to the pioneers of flight and aircraft design, combining texts from early newsreels and pilots' journals, and featuring renowned pianola player Rex Lawson.
It is one of the first full length pieces written especially for the pianola since the 1930s. Gabriel states that in writing this piece he satisfied his obsession with aviation: “…the technology, the bravery and daring of pilots, the aesthetic beauty of aircraft, the transcendence of flying - and when thinking about what a piece for voices and pianola might be about, I was very struck by the fact that the (brief) heyday of the pianola coincided with the pioneering years of aviation.” The variety of texts used includes eye-witness accounts by Louis Blériot and the musings of Amelia Earhart. The seven-movement work makes full use of the amazing keyboard dexterity possible with the pianola’s virtuosic resources and contains the instrumental Toccata Aeronautica, a staggering showpiece movement for pianola alone, giving full opportunity to show what it can achieve, but which a pianist, restricted to ten fingers, could not. World-renowned pianolist, Rex Lawson, prepared the piano rolls making use of a computer programme which translates staff notation into a machine to punch the rolls, which he devised himself. Rex is a leading exponent of the pianola and works tirelessly to promote this once hugely-popular, but now rather misunderstood instrument. Gabriel Jackson won his third British Composer Award for 'Airplane Cantata' in 2012; his Choral Symphony, also included here, was shortlisted in 2013. This disc follows in Signum's popular series of recordings showcasing the work of the BBC singers and their associate composers. Previous discs include works by Judith Bingham and Edward Cowie. |
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ID: SIGCD368
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Collection:
Sacred Music
1. The Ring Dance of the Nazarene [24'14]
with Roderick Williams (baritone), Chris Brannick (percussion), The Nash Ensemble
Three Latin Motets
2. O bone Jesu [3'39]
3. Pange lingua [2'45]
4. In supremae nocte cenae [3'25]
5. Carmen Paschale [5'50] Philippa Davies (flute)
6. Lullaby [2'08]
7. On the Sheer Threshold of the Night [13'17] Emma Tring (soprano), Margaret Cameron (alto), Stephen Jeffes (tenor), Charles Gibbs (bass)
8. The Moth Requiem [18'32] Philippa Davies (flute), Lucy Wakeford (harp), Helen Tunstall (harp), Hugh Webb (harp)
In 2014-the composer’s 80th year-Harrison Birtwistle remains one of the most popular voices in contemporary composition in the UK and beyond. This new collection of premiere recordings draws together recent commissions with older works to mark the occasion, with characteristically flawless performances from the BBC Singers under Nicholas Kok. They are joined by The Nash Ensemble and baritone Roderick Williams.
This is the fourth in Signum's ongoing series of composer-led releases with the BBC Singers, with past discs featuring the works by Judith Bingham, Richard Rodney Bennett, and most recently Edward Cowie. |
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ID: SIGCD370
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Collection:
Sacred Music
Subcollection: ChoirBairstow: I sat down under his shadow
Brumel, A: Sicut lilium
Casals, E: Nigra Sum
Clemens: Ego flos campi
Duruflé: Ubi caritas, Op. 10 No. 1
Finzi: My lovely one, Op. 27 No. 1
Grieg: Four Psalms Op. 74: No. 1 'How fair is thy face'
Hadley, P: My beloved spake
Muhly: Set me as a seal
Rivafrecha: Anima mea
Skempton: Rise up, my Love
How fair is thy love
My beloved is gone down
How fair is thy love
Vierne, L: Pièces de fantaisie, 4th suite, Op. 55: No. 1, Aubade
Walker, R: As The Apple Tree
Walton: Set me as a seal upon thine heart
Wesley, S S: Blessed be the God and Father
Willan: Rise up, my love
Mark Williams leads the Choir of the Jesus College Cambridge through an evocative selection of choral works inspired in varying ways by the songs of Solomon.
Songs of love have been written from the earliest records of human existence. None are more passionately ecstatic than the Song of Solomon, which occupies a unique place in the Holy Bible in both style and content. It contains lyric poems of love and courtship, as might have been sung at Jewish weddings. For Christians, these poems speak to the beauty of the union of Christ and his ‘bride’, the Church. The present collection presents a diverse group of choral works written between the 16th century and the present day, with most inspired by this unique sacred text. |
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ID: SIGCD366
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Collection:
Choral Collection
Subcollection: ChoirBritten:
Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30
A Hymn to the Virgin
Prelude & Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria
Five Flower Songs, Op. 47
Mealor:
Five Songs of Praise and Devotion
Four Madrigals On Rose Texts: A Spotless Rose
Four Madrigals On Rose Texts: Lady, When I Behold The Roses Sprouting
Four Madrigals On Rose Texts: Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal
Four Madrigals On Rose Texts: Upon A Bank
Victoria:
Ecce sacerdos magnus
Anonymous:
Ecce sacerdos magnus
The Rodolfus Choir, Ralph Allwood |
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ID: SIGCD328
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Collection:
Choral Collection
Subcollection: ChoirBlatchly:
For the Fallen
Brahms:
Geistliches Lied, Op. 30
Guest, D:
For the fallen
Harris, W:
Faire is the Heaven
Ireland:
Greater Love Hath No Man
Lewis, G:
Justorum animæ (The souls of the righteous)
MacMillan:
A Child's Prayer
Martin, M:
Justorum animae
Parry:
Crossing the Bar
There is an old belief (No. 4 from Songs of Farewell)
Pärt:
The Beatitudes
Stetsenko:
Blahoslovy dushe moya hospoda
Thalben-Ball:
Elegy in F (No. 11 from A Little Organ Book in memory of Hubert Parry)
trad.:
Kontakion of the Dead
Trad Kiev
Vaughan Williams:
Lord, Thou has been our refuge
Wood, C:
Nunc Dimittis
The Choir of Jesus College Cambridge, Mark Williams (director) |
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ID: SIGCD421
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Choral Collection
Subcollection: ChoirThe BBC Singers continue their critically lauded and award- nominated series of composer-led recordings with a new disc of works by Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir.
Recorded in the unique acoustic of the Temple Church, London, the BBC Singers are joined by the church’s choristers and the contemporary music ensemble Endymion, in a retrospective of Weir’s works drawn from a 25-year period.
Endymion (vocal ensemble) |
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ID: RES10157
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Collection:
Choral Collection
Subcollection: ChoirSaint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, Fifth Avenue, New York, Sara Cutler (harp) & John Scott (conductor)
Sent to press just days before his untimely death in August 2015, John Scott's last recording is Dancing Day, a programme of works for Christmas, made with his beloved Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys of Fifth Avenue, New York.
Recorded in the home of the choir in Manhattan, the recording is centred around two works for treble voices and harp performed annually by the boys of the choir under John's direction - Benjamin Britten's inimitable A Ceremony of Carols and John Rutter's companion piece Dancing Day.
Completing a compelling disc that features medieval texts and themes are further works for treble voices - Britten's A New Year Carol and Patrick Hadley's I sing of a maiden. The boys are joined by the men of the choir for works by Matthew Martin, Philip Ledger and William Mathias. Also included is John's own arrangement of the simple traditional Dutch carol King Jesus hath a garden, penned whilst organ scholar of St John's College, Cambridge.
'The abiding impression is one intimacy, innocence and wonder [...] T |
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ID: RES10170
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Collection:
Choral Collection
Subcollection: ChoirThe St Catharine's Girls' Choir, Cambridge & Edward Wickham (conductor)
Following on from their acclaimed recording debut on ‘Nova! Nova!’ shared with the college choir of St Catharine’s College, The Saint Catharine’s Girls’ Choir, make their solo debut with a full album of recent works for upper voices, with their director Edward Wickham.
Entitled Ave Maria after the two settings of this text by Rebecca Clarke and Cecilia McDowall recorded here, this disc consists almost entirely of world premiere recordings. Also featured is Kenneth Leighton’s Missa Cornelia and John Tavener’s challenging Missa Brevis alongside sacred works from Diana Burrell, Joanna Marsh and Judith Bingham. |
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