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Komponist: SAXTON, Robert ((b. 1953)) |
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ID: MSV28507
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: String instruments
The three composers featured on this CD are in themselves leading lights of the contemporary music scene in the UK, and their works (of which these are first recordings) very fine examples of the modern string quartet, all extremely accessible.
tracks: John Casken: String Quartet no. 2
Judith Weir: String Quartet
Robert Saxton: Songs, Dances and Ellipses
The Kreutzer Quartet has forged an enviable reputation as one of the Europe’s most dynamic and innovative string quartets. The ‘Independent’ newspaper summed up their playing as ‘Passion, Grace and Steel…’.
They are the dedicatees of numerous works, and over many years forged creative partnerships with composers including Sir Michael Tippett, David Matthews, Michael Finnissy, Judith Weir, and Haflidi Hallgrimsson. They have a particularly strong relationship to a cross-section of leading American composers, having collaborated intensively with the great George Rochberg in the last few years of his life, as long as working closely with figures as Elliott Schwartz, and the prolific symphonist Gloria Coates.
As recording artists they have won critical acclaim for their discs on the Naxos, Metier, and Chandos labels. Their work in collaboration with art galleries has garnered much attention, and large audiences, particularly their annual residency at the Tate Gallery, St Ives. In 2008 they appeared at several Festivals including the Venice Biennale, and the Montpelier Festival. They are ‘Artists in association’ at York University. The performers on this CD are Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin), Gordon MacKay (violin), Bridget Carey (viola), and Neil Heyde (cello).
Of the works presented here there are no other recordings of the Casken and Saxton pieces, and at the recording of these, the composers were present, so it can be assumed they are precisely what the composers actually envisaged when writing the works.
The Kreutzer Quartet includes:
Peter Sheppard Skærved (Violin)
Mihailo Trandafilovski and previously Gordon MacKay (Violin)
Morgan Goff and previously Bridget Carey (Viola)
Neil Heyde (Cello) |
| 12.00 eur Buy |
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ID: MSV28510
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Piano
A recital of works for flute and piano by British composers, this CD includes world premier recordings (the pieces by Saxton, Lock and Butterworth) and introduces music that will undoubtedly enter the standard repertoire. A first-classa reference point in modern mudsic for flute.
Tracks:
RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT:
Summer Music
Winter Music
ARTHUR BUTTERWORTH:
Aubade, premiere recording
ROBERT SAXTON:
Krystallen, premiere recording
DAVE HEATH:
Out of the Cool
BRIAN LOCK:
Flute Sonata, premiere recording
CECILIA McDOWALL:
The Moon Dances |
| 12.00 eur Buy |
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ID: MSVCD92008
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: InstrumentalSubkolektion: Piano
Tippett's marvellous one-movement 2nd sonata is joined by fine works by Saxton, Sackman and Connolly in the 2nd volume of the Metier British Piano Music series, in which a Tippett Sonata is presented amongst contemporary works.
tracks: SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT: Piano Sonata no. 2 NICHOLAS SACKMAN: PIano Sonata ROBERT SAXTON: Chacony for Left Hand JUSTIN CONNOLLY: Sonatina in Five Studies, op. 1 |
| 12.00 eur Buy |
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ID: MSVCD92009
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: InstrumentalSubkolektion: Piano
The third in Metier's "20th century British Piano Music" series based on Tippett's Sonatas, this CD contains his Fourth Sonata and works by Colin Matthews, Constant Lambert and Robert Saxton, central figures in mid-late 20th century music.
tracks:
Sir Michael Tippett:
Sonata no. 4
Robert Saxton:
Sonata
Colin Matthews:
Eleven Studies in Velocity
Constant Lambert:
Elegy |
| 12.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD062
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Orchestral WorksSubkolektion: Orchester
3 sets of variations - two previously unrecorded - with contributions from 19 British composers ranging from William Walton to Judith Weir |
| 22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD065
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Chamber Ensemble
Glittering piano quintet A Yardstick to the Stars explores the notions of time, distance and planetary motion; it is coupled with song-cycle Eloge, Fantazia for string quartet, and Chacony, a virtuosic set of variations for piano left hand. |
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ID: NMCD069
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Orchestral WorksSubkolektion: Orchester
Both Anthony Gilbert's brilliant woodwind writing and his long association with the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester are showcased on this disc, featuring performances by the RNCM's acclaimed New Ensemble and Wind Orchestra, and concluding with the brilliant and playful tribute to Stravinsky, Igorochki. |
| 22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD102
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Chamber Ensemble
Robert Saxton's opera Caritas - based on Arnold Wesker's drama about a walled-up anchoress of the 13th century - alongside his Violin Concerto, Music to Celebrate the Resurrection, In the Beginning and the set of choral motets I Will Awake the Dawn.
These recordings were originally released on Collins Classics. Reissued with funding from Arts Council England. |
| 28.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD170
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
The Cast:
Roderick Williams, baritone · Tim Mirfin, baritone
Teresa Cahill, soprano · Hilary Summers, mezzo-soprano
Louise Winter, mezzo-soprano · Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts, tenor
Brindley Sherratt, bass · Graeme Danby, bass
Jeremy White, bass
Actors: Simon Paisley Day · Jennie Stoller
Lydia Kalian · Rudi Goodman
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Singers
André de Ridder, conductor
Roderick Williams (Wandering Jew), Tim Mirfin (Jesus/Beggar), Teresa Cahill (Widowed Mother), Hilary Summers (Fortune Teller), Louise Winter (Kundry), Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts (Faust), Brindley Sherratt (Mephistopheles), Graeme Danby (Odin), Jeremy White (Old Man)
Robert Saxton’s long-awaited radio opera, commissioned by the BBC, is a modernist take on the tale of the Wandering Jew - the shoe-mender condemned by Jesus to wander the Earth until the Second Coming after he refused to help him on his way to his Crucifixion. The opera introduces many legendary characters, following medieval and other myths, including Faust, Mephistopheles, Kundry and Wotan. Underneath its surface lies a structure relating to the annual cycle of Jewish and Christian festivals in eight scenes of sweeping orchestral and choral music, enhanced by studio post-production from Antony Pitts. |
| 28.00 eur Buy |
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