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Purcel - A Purcell Collection - VOCES8- Les Inventions

Purcel - A Purcell Collection - VOCES8- Les Inventions
ID: SIGCD375
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Baroque

Morley:
Second Dirge Anthem

Purcell:
Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem, Z46
To the Hills and the Vales (from Dido & Aeneas)
By beauteous softness (from Now does the glorious day appear, Z332)
O God, thou art my god, Z35
How Happy the Lover
What power art thou? (from King Arthur, Z628)
Behold, O Mightiest of Gods
My heart is inditing, Z30
Bid the virtues (from Come ye Sons of Art, Z323)
Hail! Bright Cecilia (Ode for St Cecilia's Day 1692), Z328
Strike the Viol (from Come Ye Sons of Art, Z323)
Thou knowest, Lord
Fairest Isle (from King Arthur)
Full Fathom Five (from The Tempest, Z631)

An invitation to stroll through the world of one of England’s greatest composers

The young, virtuoso A Cappella ensemble VOCES8 return to disc on Signum with a sumptuous collection of early works by Henry Purcell. Joined by the specialist early-music ensemble ‘Les Inventions’, the group explores Purcell’s astoundingly diverse output - there is hardly a genre in which he did not express himself: anthems, odes, funeral music, semi- operas, masques, sonatas, consort-music, songs and catches populate his extraordinarily multifaceted œuvre. It is this astonishing diversity that we wish to celebrate by inviting the listener for a stroll through the world of one of England’s greatest composers.
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W.A. Mozart - The A-Z of Mozart Opera -The Orchestra of Classical Opera - I. Page, conductor

W.A. Mozart - The A-Z of Mozart Opera -The Orchestra of Classical Opera - I. Page, conductor
ID: SIGCD373
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

Mozart:
Natus cadit (from Apollo et Hyacinthus)
Amoretti, che ascosi qui siete (from La Finta Semplice)
Diggi, daggi, schurry, murry (from Bastien und Bastienne)
Se viver non degg’io (original version) (from Mitridate, Re di Ponto)
Fra i pensier più funesti (from Lucio Silla)
Geme la tortorella (from La finta giardiniera)
Viva l’invitto Duce (from Il Re Pastore)
Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben (from Zaïde)
Andrò ramingo e solo (from Idomeneo)
Konstanze, Konstanze...O wie ängstlich (from Die Entführung aus dem Serail)
Bravo, signor padrone…Se vuol ballare (from Le nozze di Figaro)
Deh! vieni alla finestra (from Don Giovanni)
Di scrivermi ogni giorno (from Così fan tutte)
Ah perdona al primo affetto (from La Clemenza di Tito)
Hm! hm! hm! hm! (from Die Zauberflöte)

Rebecca Bottone, Klara Ek, Martene Grimson, Susan Gritton, Anna Leese (soprano), Cora Burggraaf (mezzo), Allan Clayton, Andrew Staples (tenor), Mark Stone (baritone), Matthew Rose (bass)

Classical Opera Company, Ian Page



Featuring Rebecca Bottone, Cora Burggraaf, Allan Clayton, Klara Ek, Martene Grimson, Jennifer Johnston, Susan Gritton, Anna Leese, Matthew Rose, Andrew Staples & Mark Stone

Signum are proud to reissue Classical Opera’s debut CD, ‘The A-Z of Mozart Opera’, selected for Gramophone magazine’s annual Critic’s Choice in 2007. Based on the coincidence that Mozart’s first opera (Apollo et Hyacinthus) begins with ‘A’ and his last (Die Zauberflo?te) with ‘Z’, this disc takes the listener on a chronological journey through Mozart’s operatic canon, featuring an aria or ensemble from fifteen of his operas.

“My personal pick for giving this year is the Classical Opera Company’s glorious The A-Z of Mozart Opera, which is fresh, diverse, insightful and illuminating (everything that such recital anthologies usually fail to be). ... “... uniformly superb interpretations... an auspicious de?but recording of intelligence, finesse and quality.” Gramophone
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B. Bartók - Duke Bluebeard's Castle - Philharmonia Orchestra - Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

B. Bartók - Duke Bluebeard's Castle - Philharmonia Orchestra - Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
ID: SIGCD372
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Opera Collection

Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Sz. 48, Op. 11

An unforgettable live-concert recording, selected from the Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen’s season of works by Béla Bartók - „Infernal Dance“.

Sir John Tomlinson Bluebeard
Michelle DeYoung Judith
Juliet Stevenson Narrator
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor

Reviews of the concert from which this recording was taken:
„John Tomlinson and Michelle DeYoung were vocally so commanding as to render „choreography“ entirely superfluous. Tomlinson's cavernous voice seemed to embody the very interior world of his castle - its sadness, darkness, emptiness - his Hungarian so vivid and expressive in itself that it became another sonority in Bartok's aural palette. He was quite extraordinary. Musically stunning ..." The Arts Desk

"The part of Judith was well taken by Michelle DeYoung but it was the portrayal of Tomlinson that stole the show. At first predatory and prowling - no one can prowl like John Tomlinson - he visibly collapsed into himself as his secrets were exposed. And never was that magnificently gnarled tone put to better use." The Evening Standard
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Five - James Rhodes, piano

Five - James Rhodes, piano
ID: SIGCD371
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano

Bach, J S:
Partita No. 1 in B flat major, BWV825
Beethoven:
Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28 'Pastorale'
Chopin:
Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47
Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31
Schumann - Liszt:
Frühlingsnacht (after Schumann, Op. 39 No. 12), S568
Gluck - Sgambati:
Melodie from Gluck's 'Orfeo ed Euridice'


Five years on from his debut recording, James Rhodes has firmly established himself in the classical world as a pioneering figure - reaching out through concerts, recordings and television documentaries to create new classical music fans whilst remaining unabashedly dedicated to the core repertoire that he performs.

In his fifth recital album from his new label Instrumental Records, he returns with a sumptuous programme of works of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin, the Gluck-Sgambatti „Orfeo Melody“, and Liszt’s arrangement of Robert Schumann’s „Frühlingsnacht“.
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Will Todd: Lux et Veritas - Music for Peace and Reflection

Will Todd: Lux et Veritas - Music for Peace and Reflection
ID: SIGCD394
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Choir

Todd:
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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Hakim Plays Hakim - The Schuke Organ of the Palacio Euskalduna of Bilbao, Vol.1

Hakim Plays Hakim - The Schuke Organ of the Palacio Euskalduna of Bilbao, Vol.1
ID: SIGCD389
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Organ Collection
Subcollection: Organ

Hakim:
Toccata
Petite Suite
Die Apostel for organ duet
Ave Maria (Fantasy on a lied by Franz Schubert)
Hommage à Jean Langlais
Esquisses Gregoriennes
Arabesques

Naji Hakim and Marie-Bernadette Dufourcet (organ)

Naji Hakim returns to disc on Signum with a new and powerful collection of his own organ works. Hakim is joined by Marie-Bernadette Dufource for the central piece of the programme, a set of meditation for two organists inspired by Lucas Cranach the Elder's woodcuts of the Apostles.
Completed in 2000, the Schuke Organ of the Palacio Euskalduna is housed in a magnificent concert hall of wood and steel - itself inspired by the Euskulduna shipyards that once occupied the area. A modern instrument, it is well-suited to the nuanced voicings of modern organ compositions, as a well as being sympathetic and adaptable to the great works of the past.
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J. Bliss and B. Moore - Works by Debussy - Milhaud - Glinka - Francaix - Prokofiev

J. Bliss and B. Moore - Works by Debussy - Milhaud - Glinka - Francaix - Prokofiev
ID: SIGCD384
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano and Clarinet

Debussy:
Rhapsody for clarinet & piano (or orchestra), L. 116 'Première rapsodie'
Françaix:
Tema con variazioni for clarinet & piano
Glinka: arr. Bliss
Viola Sonata in D minor
Milhaud:
Sonatina for clarinet and piano, Op. 100
Prokofiev: arr. Bliss
Flute Sonata in D major, Op. 94


Nearly 10 years after his debut recital recording, virtuoso clarinettist Julian Bliss returns to disc with a new programme alongside pianist Bradley Moore. Their recital combines great works (and some new arrangements) from great Russian and French composers.

"I first heard the Prokofiev a number of years ago and what struck me was not only the virtuosity required by both musicians to play it, but how intricate and beautiful it was. I knew straight away that I had to make my own arrangement of it, and after sight reading it through with Bradley there was no question about including it on this album. To me, the third movement in particular has a very French and jazzy feel to it. You could be fooled into thinking it was a piece of Debussy!" Julian Bliss
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Mister Dowland's Midnight all works by John Dowland, arr. for guitar by Ch. Denoth

Mister Dowland's Midnight all works by John Dowland, arr. for guitar by Ch. Denoth
ID: SIGCD382
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: Guitar

Dowland:
Mrs Winter's Jump
Lady Rich, her Galliard
Lord Strang's March
A Fancy
Queen Elizabeth, her Galliard
Preludium
Lachrimae Pavan, P. 15
Frog Galliard
My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home
A Coy Joy
Melancholy Galliard
Tarleton's Riserrectione
What If A Day
Fortune
Lady Hunsdon's Puffe
Captain Digorie Pipers Galliard
The King of Denmark, His Galliard
Orlando Sleepeth
Round Battle Galliard
Sir John Smith, His Almain
The Shoemaker's Wife
Mrs Nichols' Almain
Mrs White's Nothing, P. 56
Awake, sweet love
Mr Dowland's Midnight

Christoph Denoth (guitar)


Swiss guitarist Christoph Denoth explores the enchanting lute music of John Dowland, in collection of his own arrangements made from Dowland’s original handwritten scores.

Christoph Denoth writes on the appeal of Dowland:
"Dowland, the melancholic poet of the silvery sound of the lute, is free of any instrumental limitation that might have affected his compositions. The melodic and, at the same time, contrapuntal and harmonic approach of his music is both wonderful and unique. Its expression is one of noble sadness, melancholy, and tears, but the beauty is genuine and always caught my attention and appealed to my heart."
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Gabriel Jackson - Airplane Cantata - BBC Singers

Gabriel Jackson - Airplane Cantata -  BBC Singers
ID: SIGCD381
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir

Jackson, 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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Dreamscape - Songs and Trios by Andrzej and Roxanna Panufnik

Dreamscape - Songs and Trios by Andrzej and Roxanna Panufnik
ID: SIGCD380
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano

Andrzej & Roxanna Panufnik
Modlitwa
Panufnik, A:
Love Song
Dreamscape
Piano Trio
Panufnik, R:
Mine Eye
Sweet Love Remember’d
That Mighty Heart
Virtue
Around Three Corners

Heather Shipp (mezzo-soprano) - Subito Piano Trio

A unique programme of works by father and daughter.

Sir Andrzej Panufnik was a leading Polish composer of the 20th Century, and his daughter Roxanna has made a name for herself in her own right as a contemporary composer in the 21st. This disc, programmed by Roxanna to combine works by both herself and her father, explores the parallels between their two musical languages and forms a touching tribute to Andrzej from his daughter.
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