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ID: NMCD215
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Orchester
Barry, G: The One-Armed Pianist
Guy: Mr Babbage is coming to dinner
Mayo: Supermarine
Molitor, C: 2TwoLO
Musgrave: Power Play
Sawer: Coachman Chronos
Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Objects at an Exhibition is a landmark commissioning project by NMC Recordings, in partnership with Aurora Orchestra and the Science Museum 'The most headline-grabbing of a series of recent announcements by NMC [that] aims to increase the audience for contemporary music ... this is an imaginative step on that worthwhile mission' Gramophone
Re-imagining Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition for the twenty-first century, these six new works, commissioned by NMC Recordings, are inspired by an object or space in London's world-renowned Science Museum. Each composer had free rein to pick an exhibit.
Thea Musgrave was attracted to the impressive Energy Hall with its C18th- C19th steam engines; the result is a playful work for woodwind, brass and strings that conveys the inner workings of the vast machines.
Christopher Mayo's piece for cello, double bass and four samplers is inspired by a slate statue of RJ Mitchell (the designer of the Spitfire) in the Flight Gallery. Samples of aeroplane engines grow from distant drone to hypnotic and cachophonous noise.
The enormous but 'melancholic' quality of 2LO (the first BBC transmitter) was what first caught Claudia Molitor's eye, and after doing some research she discovered that initially the transmission of music was prohibited and only speech was deemed acceptable. She uses BBC Sound Archive recordings from 2LO broadcasts in her piece.
David Sawer's work, with percussion - like strings, woodwind and fl ugel horn, conjures up vivid images of the 1830 York Mail Coach (displayed in the 'Making of the Modern World' gallery) speeding through the streets.
Gerald Barry chose an artificial arm with fingers stretched to play only octaves as inspiration - the prosthetic limb belonged to an unidentified female pianist and Barry's haunting, hypnotic composition continually repeats a two-note phrase which gradually evolves into octaves.
The graphic score hand-drawn and partially coloured by Barry Guy is a work of art in itself. Charles Babbage's Difference Engine and his drawings influenced Guy's piece which unsurprisingly, for a composer/bassist who has worked in free improv groups with Derek Bailey and Evan Parker, calls on spontaneity and improvisation from the 13 musicians of the Aurora Orchestra. |
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ID: NMCD213
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Track Listing 1. I. Eurydice to Orpheus
2. II. Visionen
3. III. Voyelles
4. IV. Keep Your Eyes Open
5. A First Book of Inventions
6. Echo and Narcissus - A Dramatic Cantata
7. I. Largamente, Allegro Movendo
8. II. Arioso - Molto Calmo
9. III. Allegro Furioso
10. I. The First Music
11. II. The First Music
12. III. Rustic Music
13. IV. Rustic Music
14. V. Curtain Music
15. VI. Curtain Music |
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ID: NMCD236
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Holst, I:
Phantasy Quartet
Duo for Viola and Piano
String Trio No. 1
The Fall of the Leaf
Sonata for Violin and Cello
String Quintet
Simon Hewitt Jones, David Worswick, Tom Hankey, Oliver Coates, Thomas Hewitt Jones, Daniel Swain
One of NMC's commitments to new music is rescuing significant recordings that have been deleted.
Award-winning album of first recordings of Imogen Holst's chamber works (originally released on the Court Lane Music label)
Stylistically, many of the works share a similar soundworld to early Tippett and Finzi, however during the 1930s Imogen heard Berg's Wozzeck in Vienna, which had a profound impact.
Her Sonata for Violin and Cello, written during this time, explores a darker, more unsettling dissonance.
It is thanks to Imogen (and Colin Matthews) that NMC Recordings was created, back in 1989, with support from the Holst Foundation. |
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ID: NMCD248
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Marsyas Trio |
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ID: NMCD246
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Sarah Leonard, Project Instrumental, Daniele Rosina, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire SO, Mirga Grazinytè-Tyla, Fidelio Trio, Workers Union Ensemble, Noszferatu, Emulsion Sinfonietta, Iain Ballamy |
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ID: NMCD243
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Andrew Watts, Iain Burnside |
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ID: NMCD240
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Michelle O'Rourke, Juliet Fraser, Crash Ensemble, Ives Ensemble, Alan Pierson |
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ID: NMCD237
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Onyx Brass: Niall Keatley, Alan Thomas, Andrew Sutton, Amos Miller |
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ID: NMCD157
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Chamber Ensemble
Significant concert activity planned to mark Sir Peter Maxwell Davies 75th birthday in 2009, including concert performances of Taverner in November by BBC SSO (UK).
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was appointed Master of the Queen’s Music in 2004.
Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle studied together at the Royal Northern College of Music where they founded the contemporary music touring ensemble the Pierrot Players (later renamed The Fires of London).
Maxwell Davies Lives in Sanday in the Orkney Islands which are located off the northern tip of Scotland where the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean meet. Orkney is an archipelago of 70 or so islands; just 21 of them are inhabited.
This is Peter Maxwell Davies’ first release on the NMC label. To mark Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s 75th birthday NMC issue the long-awaited release of his seminal opera, Taverner.
This release is of the landmark 1997 BBC recording featuring an astonishing line up of the cream of British contemporary music interpreters, alongside specialist period instrument ensembles Fretwork and His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, conducted by Oliver Knussen. Although what is now known about the 16th-century English composer John Taverner differs considerably from the plot of this opera, the piece is both a fascinating study of an artist as a man for all seasons and an extraordinary indictment of the horrors inflicted on humanity by religion, or religious zealotry.
The Taverner of the opera abandons music to become a persecutor of the Catholic faith and thus betrays all that is good in himself. In Act 1 we see him being tried for heresy by the White Abbot and pardoned by the Cardinal (Wolsey) because of his music. In Act 2, which is a parody of the first, Taverner is trying the White Abbot, who is burned at the stake. That is the bare outline. A sub-plot is Henry VIII’s wish for a break with Rome in order to divorce Catherine of Aragon and the machinations of a Jester, otherwise Death, who controls Taverner’s fate. |
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ID: NMCD054
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Chamber MusicSubkolektion: Chamber Ensemble
Arianna, Monteverdi's lost opera is "composed again" by Alexander Goehr; ranging from direct quotation of the 1608 original, to Goehr's Stravinsky-like reinterpretation, this remarkable score features some of Britain's best young singers. |
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