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ID: SIGCD349
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Subcollection: PianoFranck, C:
Symphonic Variations for piano & orchestra, M46
Goss, S:
Piano Concerto
Saint-Saëns:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
Emmanuel Despax is a rising star on the UK and international piano scene, who has performed at the Wigmore and Cadogan Halls in London, the Salle Gaveau and Louvre Auditorium in Paris, and with orchestras including the CBSO.
His debut concerto recording, with the Orpheus Sinfonia under Thomas Carroll, features the premiere recording of Stephen Goss’s Piano Concerto, inspired by the designs of Thomas Heatherwick (the work’s premiere performance was the first classical concert in which audiences were invited to bring their ipads and tablets, to watch an interactive display designed to accompany the music). The work is accompanied by two similarly expressive and characterful works, Saint-Saëns’ ever-popular Piano Concerto No.2 and Franck’s Variations symphoniques. |
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ID: SIGCD345
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Subcollection: OrchestreOrchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment
Margaret Faultless, conductor, violin
Roger Montgomery, natural horn
Under the direction of Margaret Faultless the OAE shine on these new recordings of Mozart’s horn Concertos, featuring sublime performances by Roger Montgomery on the natural (valveless) horn.
As well as lesser-known gems of Mozart’s horn repertoire, at the centre of the collection comes the lyrical fourth horn Concerto (K.495), featuring thrilling fanfares and brilliant dialogue between the solo instrument and orchestra. |
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ID: SIGCD328
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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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: SIGCD366
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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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: SIGCD365
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Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: PianoBrahms:
Waltzes (16), Op. 39
Piazzólla: arr. Bax & Chung
Lo que vendra
Milonga del ángel
Tango No. 2
Libertango
Stravinsky:
Petrushka
The real life marriage of two great concert pianists, Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung, has led to one of the leading piano duos of their generation. To cite the UK magazine Music and Arts, “Theirs is a marriage of wondrous colours and dextrous aplomb, subtly balanced to make a musical performance sound as one.”
Stavinsky’s Pétrouchka was originally arranged for four-hands by the composer as a rehearsal score for the Ballet Russes production of the same name, but in this stripped-down it brings Stravinsky’s melodic, rhythmic and harmonic inventiveness to the fore. Brahms’s 16 Waltzes Op.39 are an enchanting collection of Romantic miniatures that simultaneously nod to the musical lineage of the composer’s home in Vienna whilst asserting his own flair and individuality. The final four tangos by Piazzolla are a full of Argentine flair and vigour, and were arranged especially for this recording by Bax and Chung. |
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ID: SIGCD370
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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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: SIGCD369
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and PianoBrahms:
Auf dem Kirchhofe, Op. 105 No. 4
Feldeinsamkeit, Op. 86 No. 2
Verrat, Op. 105 No. 5
Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen, Op. 32 No. 2
Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121
Wolf, H:
Prometheus (No. 49 from Goethe-Lieder)
Grenzen der Menschheit (No. 51 from Goethe-Lieder)
Der Sänger (No. 10 from Goethe-Lieder)
O wüsst ich doch den Weg zurück, Op. 63, No. 8
Songs (3) on poems by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Alastair Miles (bass) - Marie-Nöelle Kendall (piano)
Alastair Miles is internationally recognised as one of the world's leading basses, appearing regularly with acclaimed opera companies such as WNO, Glyndebourne, ENO and the Royal Opera, as well as with conductors such as Giulini, Harnoncourt, Muti, Rattle, Gergiev, Gardiner, Norrington, Davis and Dohnanyi.
On this new recording he explores some gems of the Lieder repertoire from Hugo Wolf and Johannes Brahms, ably accompanied by pianist Marie-Nöelle Kendall. |
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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: SIGCD378
CDs: 1
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Collection:
Orchestral Works
Subcollection: OrchestrePuw:
...ont agoraf y drws.../ ...unless I open the door…
Concerto ar gyfer Obo / Concerto for Oboe - David Cowley (oboe)
Reservoirs
Hologram
Agorawd ‘Torri’r Garreg’ / ‘Break the Stone’ Overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac van Steen
The first release from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales’s inaugural Composer in Residence, Guto Pryderi Puw. Puw studied composition with composers John Pickard, Andrew Lewis and Pwyll ap Siôn. He first made an impact as a composer in 1995 when he won the Composer's Medal at the National Eisteddfod (and again in 1997). Since then he has received many commissions and performances while being much in demand as a composer at various festivals in the UK and abroad. His music is regularly broadcast on radio and television. He is the Chairman and Artistic Director of the Bangor New Music Festival, which has been running since 2000.
In 2005 his orchestral work, a BBC Radio 3 commission, 'Reservoirs', was nominated in the Large-Scale Composition category of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, and in February 2006 he was appointed as the first Resident Composer with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to compose three new orchestral commissions. His 'Concerto for Oboe' won the BBC Radio 3 'Listeners Award' category at the 2007 British Composer Awards and the Proms commissioned piece '...unless I open the door...' won BBC Music Magazine's 'Best Proms Premiere' for its performance in 2007. In 2010 he won an award from the Thomas Ellis Memorial Fund to record his orchestral music on the Signum label. He is currently working on a concerto for violinist Madeleine Mitchell for 2014 and his opera Y Tŵr (‘The Tower’) commissioned by Music Theatre Wales for 2016.
A dual-language release in both Welsh and English, this release features a range of orchestral works inspired by stories and landscapes of Wales. |
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ID: SIGCD377
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Subcollection: ViolinWith its vivid poetry and technical ingenuity, Vivaldi’s 'Four Seasons' was ground-breaking at the time of its composition and to this day remains as influential and transfixing as ever. In this recording, violinist Kati Debretzeni directs the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment based on the energetic, historically-informed performances given last February when, with renowned choreographer Henri Oguike, the OAE fused authentic performance with contemporary choreography.
The booklet includes a ‘Guided tour of the Four Seasons’, allowing listeners to follow the poetry that inspired Vivaldi as they hear the performances on the disc, including additional composer’s notes from Vivaldi’s own scores. Born in Transylvania, Kati Debretzeni studied with Ora Shiran and Baroque violin with Catherine Mackintosh and Walter Reiter at the Royal College of Music in London. Since the year 2000 she has led the English Baroque Soloists under Sir John Eliot Gardiner, and since 2008 is one of the leaders of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, which she has directed and lead in the UK, Europe and the US. Kati features as soloist on two versions of Bach’s Brandenburg concertos, with the European Brandenburg Ensemble under Trevor Pinnock (Gramophone Award, 2008), and again with the English Baroque Soloists. She has directed from the violin various ensembles in Israel, Poland, Norway, Iceland and the UK, and teaches the Baroque and Classical violin at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague. |
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