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ID: RK3107
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Romantic Period
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Becker, C F:
An das kleine Hannchen
Die Göttin der Blumen
Diabelli:
Motiv aus der Ouverture 'Der Freischutz' nach Weber
Gade, N:
Fantasiestücke Op. 43: Andantino con moto
Fantasiestücke Op. 43: Allegro vivace
Kummer, G H:
Variations for Ophicleide
Marschner, H A:
Bagatelle Op. 4 No. 1
Mendelssohn:
Andante (Tema con Variazioni) in E major, Op. 81 No. 1
Song without Words for Cello & Piano, Op. 109
Moscheles:
Ten Preludes from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier with cello part, Op. 137: Prelude No. 3
Romberg, B:
Albumblatt in E
Variationen and Rondo for harp or piano, Op. 18
Schumann:
Romance in A minor, Op. 94 No. 1
Adagio and Allegro in A flat major, Op. 70
Theme with Variations in E flat major WoO 24 ('Geistervariationen'): Theme version for glass harmonica
Schumann, Clara:
Ballade in D minor, Op. 6 No. 4 from Soirees Musicales
Tromlitz:
Sonata for flute and piano in G: Adagio
Weber:
Der arme Minnesänge
Mein Schicksal |
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ID: RK9703
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Mechanical Musical Instruments
Instrumentarium Lipsiense (I)
Aus der Sammlung des Musikinstrumentenmuseums der Universität Leipzig: Triphonola-Flügel, Symphonion, Schweizer Walzen-Spieldose, Christbaumständer u.a.
mit Texten von Johannes Bobrowski (1917-1965), gelesen von Heinz Pulkenat
Aus unserer modernen Zeit ist die konservierte Musik nicht mehr wegzudenken. Eine Unzahl an Tonträgern und das Radio beschallen uns ständig. Auch wenn das Ausmaß dieser Erscheinung mit anderen Zeiten nicht vergleichbar ist, müssen wir doch feststellen, daß das Bedürfnis, sich mit Musik zu umgeben, eine lange Tradition hat. Schon immer versuchte der Mensch, die »vorbeigehende« Musik festzuhalten. Schriften aus der Antike berichten über künstliche, singende Vögel und selbstspielende Orgelwerke, die durch Wasserwerke angetrieben wurden. Erhalten geblieben sind uns unter anderem Musikschränke mit Orgelwerken aus dem 18. Jahrhundert, klingende Stahlzungen in Walzenuhren vom Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts sowie von bedeutenden Komponisten, z.B. Debussy, Grieg, Mahler und Reger, am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts bespielte Notenrollen für das »Reproduktionsklavier«. Solche erhaltenen »Tonträger« erlauben heute aufschlußreiche Einblicke in frühere Interpretationsweisen. Diese CD soll jedoch nicht eine bloße museale Aneinanderreihung spielender Musikautomaten wiedergeben. Durch die Veredlung mit Texten Bobrowskis, gelesen vom ebenfalls aus Ostpreußen stammenden Heinz Pulkenat, entsteht eine hörspielähnliche Situation, die eine faszinierende Atmosphäre hinterläßt. |
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ID: RKAP10108
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Ensemble
With its tenth CD, amarcord takes a stroll through the musical Leipzig of the nineteenth century. This anniversary release is in homage to the hometown of the five world-class vocalists who together form the vocal ensemble amarcord. They obviously feel very much at home in this repertoire and the listener is accorded many a musical discovery in Restless Love.
Mit seiner 10. CD-Produktion spazieren amarcord durch das musikalische Leipzig des 19. Jahrhunderts. Gleichzeitig ist diese Jubiläums-Veröffentlichung eine Reverenz an die Heimatstadt der fünf Weltklasse-Vokalisten. Spürbar wohl fühlen sie sich in diesem Repertoire, und dem Hörer wird in Rastlose Liebe so manche musikalische Entdeckung gewährt.
Neben weithin bekannten Liedern, denen sie mit ebenso frischem wie kundigem Gestaltungswillen neue Nuancen entlocken, finden sich acht der Titel überhaupt erstmalig auf CD, darunter auch ein Männerchor von Mendelssohn! Der Weihgesang zur Trauerfeier für Goethe wurde vom Leipziger Mendelssohn-Forscher Ralf Wehner wiederentdeckt. Doch neben der Musik des damaligen Gewandhauskapellmeisters Mendelssohn Bartholdy und seines Freundes Robert Schumann sind es gerade die uns heute kaum noch bekannten Komponisten, die diese CD so wertvoll machen. Das ist Musik von Adolf Eduard Marschner, einem Verwandten des verrückt genialischen Heinrich Marschner, der auch in der Musikstadt wirkte - oder musikalische Kleinode von Carl Steinacker, August Mühling und Carl Friedrich Zöllner, deren Werke längst von der Rezeptionsgeschichte vergessen sind. Zu Unrecht, denn die Liebes- und Schmerzenslieder, die amarcord in Rastlose Liebe zusammenbündelt, sind ohne Ausnahme musikalische Kostbarkeiten.
Marschner, A E:
Ständchen
Marschner, H A:
Das Testament
Liebeserklarung eines Schneidergesellen
Mendelssohn:
Türkisches Schenkenlied 'Setze mir nicht', Op. 50 No. 1
Der Jäger Abschied: Wer hat dich, du schöner Wald, Op. 50 No. 2
Sommerlied 'Wie Feld und Au' so blinkend im Thau', Op. 50 No. 3
Wasserfahrt, Op. 50 No. 4
Liebe und Wein
Wanderlied 'Laue Luft kommt blau geflossen', Op. 57 No. 6
Weihgesang zur Trauerfeier von Goethe
Abendständchen Op. 75 Nr. 2
Zigeunerlied, Op. 120 No. 4
Im Süden, Op. 120 No. 3
Mühling:
Gesellschaftslied
Ans Liebchen
Abendlied
Schumann:
Die Minnesänger, Op. 33 Nr. 2
Die Lotosblume, Op. 25 No. 7
Schneeglöckchen, Op. 79 No. 26
Die Rose stand im Tau, Op. 65 No. 1
Zürne nicht des Herbstes Wind, Op. 65 No. 5
In Meeres Mitten ist ein offener Laden, Op. 65 No. 9
Steinacker:
An den Mond
Die Hoffnung
Sehnsucht
Zollner:
Der Speisezettel |
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ID: RRC1152
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Scottish Chamber Orchestra /. |
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ID: SC4001
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano and Saxophone
CD/CD-ROM with free music to play
Semplice - Italian for ‘simple’, this is the Saxophone Classics inaugural release. Jeffery Wilson renowned saxophone player, composer and educator includes a wealth of music with different styles. From the classical idiom of Mendelssohn and Rachmaninov, the folk elements by Albeniz and Balogh together with jazz pieces by Heath and Street. This programme gives an over-view of the very best pieces often used for educational purposes or examinations. The CD includes a performance of ‘Champs Hill’ by Jeffery Wilson, for Saxophone duet and piano with guest artist Victoria Soames Samek. This is included on the disc as a free music PDF file.
This wonderful new disc will be eagerly sought by both pupils and teachers alike and with those who love the distinctive sound of one of the most popular of instruments - the saxophone. |
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ID: SIGCD068
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir
Now and again a choir director finds he has an exceptional voice at his disposal. Andrew Swait was only ten years old when this disc was made - his voice was the original inspiration for the disc - and it features his outstandingly colourful tone quality and musicianship. In choosing the repertoire, we kept in mind the integrity of the great English church music tradition. We decided to do what choirs - their men and boys - do best in this country; sing, enjoy and relish the music of that tradition. Solo arias are interspersed with full choir numbers, some featuring treble solos and duets. Works by Schubert and Rachmaninoff are coupled with works from our own English masters, Sir Hubert Parry and John Rutter. Morten Lauridsen’s setting of Ubi caritas, combines a lushness of texture with the age-old plainsong melody. We hope you will enjoy this collection from Tewkesbury.
Benjamin Nicholas |
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ID: SIGCD084
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Organ Collection
Subcollection: Organ
Since the Royal Albert Hall organ was inaugurated by W.T.Best, the most famous performer of his day, in the presence of Queen Victoria on the 29th March 1871, it seems appropriate to begin this programme with one of Best’s own organ transcriptions: the Overture to Mendelssohn’s Oratorio St. Paul. Mendelssohn’s own performances of Bach on the organ in St. Paul’s Cathedral and elsewhere during the 1830s had been wildly acclaimed by the crowds who came to hear him and Best took full advantage of the enormous surge in interest in performances of music arranged for the organ. After the Mendelssohn Overture it is but a short step to the symphonic nature of Schumann’s Six Fugues on the name B-A-C-H, to which the wide dynamic range and sonic possibilities of the Albert Hall organ are ideally matched.
In the Bolcom Fantasia, the composer fuses a modern compositional idiom with two Southern Spirituals, breathing new life into both forms with shattering effect; in a way the same thing has happened to the Albert Hall organ, and with modern blowers for the bellows taking the place of the original steam engines of 1871, it certainly has enough wind now to cope with most contingencies - as you will hear.
In America the traditions of theatre organ playing are still kept very much alive. As a child I remember playing two very old records over and over again on a wind-up portable gramophone - the sort that had wooden needles which you had to keep sharpening.
The first was George Thalben-Ball playing The Ride of the Valkyries on the Alexandra Palace organ, and the other - equally favourite - was Quentin MacLean playing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on the organ in the Odeon Marble Arch. At the age of five I could not work out how Quentin MacLean did the opening glissando in Rhapsody in Blue; apparently he used the Siren stop - useful for Cops and Robbers chases in the silent movies - switched the organ on and, when the wind went into the bellows, it produced this very smooth glissando up to the top E flat!
Joseph Jongen and Siegfrid Karg-Elert were near contemporaries, and although generally regarded as organ composers, both were prolific in other forms: symphonic music, choral and chamber music and even opera. Jongen’s music is most fastidiously composed and the architectural shape and grandeur of the Sonata Eroďca is in wonderful contrast to the quite unexpected delicacy of Karg-Elert’s Valse Mignonne; here the extremely discerning listener may pick up some unexpected sounds of the gentler percussion stops on the enclosed Solo division of the Albert Hall organ.
Simon Preston, 2006 |
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ID: SIGCD114
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Organ Collection
Subcollection: Organ
Following the success of Joseph Nolan’s appearance in Music for the Coronation of James II (SIGCD094), he returns to Signum with a solo disc of organ music, capturing music from some of the finest composers of the instrument. With J.S. Bach’s famous Passacaglia in C Minor to Noel Rawsthorne’s Dance Suite, (with inspiration from Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance) this disc certainly pushes the boundaries of organ music.
Fresh from a tour of the USA in 2007, Nolan has found international recognition as well as his commitments as organist at Her Majesty’s Chapels Royal where he was appointed in 2004. |
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ID: SIGCD115
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Hear my words ye people by Hubert Parry, a former chorister at Eton College is the first track on the album featuring some of the bestloved anthems in the church repertoire, beautifully performed by the Eton College Chapel Choir.
The choir, formed in the 14th-Century has changed a great deal since the choir school was succeeded by a music scholarship system, designed to facilitate talented choristers with their education. Although life has changed at Eton, the music passed down over five hundred years still possesses a power to stir. |
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ID: SIGCD200
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Chamber Orchestra
The London Chamber Orchestra, the UK’s oldest chamber orchestra, has nurtured the new and paid homage to the traditional since 1921. Since 1988 Principal Conductor and Music Director Christopher Warren-Green has brought together the inspirational musicians and repertoire for which LCO is renowned. The remarkable acoustic and intimate ambience of St. John’s, Smith Square, its London home, enable the LCO - the only chamber orchestra resident in London - to give vibrant performances and establish a close rapport with its audiences. The recordings on the LCO Live label, in partnership with Signum Classics, are the result of this happy marriage of orchestra and venue. Future releases include Mozart’s Symphony No. 1 and Beethoven’s ‘Ah Perfido!’ |
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