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Composer: WEIR, Judith ((b. 1954)) |
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ID: DCD34002 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Vocal and Piano *world premiere recordings
This debut from rising star Polly May includes premiere recordings of the original versions of Judith Weir’s Songs from the Exotic and Luciano Berio’s Quattro canzoni popolari.
"The musky, warm mezzo-soprano of Polly May, and the robust piano-playing of Lucy Walker... are well-suited to this earthy repertoire... much to enjoy in this fresh and courageous venture." - BBC Music Magazine, March 2002 |
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ID: DCD34013 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Organ Collection Subcollection: Organ Bonaventure, virtuosic proponent of new music for the organ, presents here a luminous recital of première recordings, a rare invitation into this phantasmagorical sound world.
Track listing
Avril Anderson (b.1953)
1. Repetitive Strain
Peter Nelson (b. 1951)
2. On the Beach
Judith Weir (b. 1954)
3. Ettrick Banks
4. Wild Mossy Mountains
Ian McQueen (b. 1954)
5. 2000 Nails
Eddie McGuire (b. 1948)
6. Prelude IV
Michael Bonaventure (b. 1962)
7. Animus VI
Lyell Cresswell (b. 1944)
8. The Urim and the Thummim |
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ID: DCD34038 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Contemporary music Subcollection: Quartet Track listing
Clapperton:
Great Divorce for string quartet
Dempster:
String Quartet No. 4 “The Cold Dancer”
Sweeney, W:
String Quartet No. 3
Weir:
String Quartet
Edinburgh Quartet |
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ID: DCD34084 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Piano Alexander McCall Smith, narrator
On this second recording for Delphian, the Fidelio Trio bring together works by three of Scotland's leading composers. Alexander McCall Smith narrates Sally Beamish's The Seafarer Trio with a mingled intimacy and plangency, lending his inimitable luster to this collection of world premiere recordings.
Track listing
1 Sally Beamish (b. 1956) The Seafarer Trio
2-4 Judith Weir (b. 1954) Piano Trio Two
5-12 Nigel Osborne (b. 1948) The Piano Tuner
Total playing time [57:24] |
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ID: DCD34122 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Christmas Music Subcollection: Organ Choir of Merton College, Oxford
Peter Phillips & Benjamin Nicholas conductors
Anna Steppler organ
The beginning of Advent is celebrated with a particular solemnity at Merton. For its second recording the college choir explores the musical riches that adorn this most special time in the church’s year, centring on a newly commissioned sequence of Magnificat antiphons from seven leading composers.
Founded in 2008, the new Choir of Merton College, Oxford is led by newly appointed Organist and fulltime Director of Music Benjamin Nicholas, and Reed Rubin Director of Music Peter Philips. The choir is rapidly emerging as a major force in collegiate choral music. The disc is recorded in the beautiful environs of Merton College Chapel, which has stood at the heart of the College as a place of worship for almost 750 years.
Track listing
1. Ecce concipies -Matthew Martin
2. Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming
arr. David Blackwell
3. Rorate caeli desuper -William Byrd
4. Advent Antiphon - James MacMillan
5. Drop down, ye heavens, from above -Judith Weir
6. Alvus tumescit virginis - Michael Praetorius
Seven Advent Antiphons
commissioned by the Chaplain of Merton College
7. O Sapientia - Howard Skempton
8. O Adonai - John Tavener
9. O Radix Jesse - Rihards Dubra
10. O Clavis David - Gabriel Jackson
11. O Oriens - Cecilia McDowall
12. O Rex Gentium -Matthew Martin
13. O Emmanuel - E-riks Ešenvalds
14. Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen -Anton Heiller
15. Ecce Virgo concipiet - William Byrd
16. Es ist ein Ros entsprungen - Michael Praetorius
arr. Jan Sandström
17. Ave Maria - Tomás Luis de Victoria |
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ID: MSV28507 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: 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) |
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ID: MSVCD92025 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Vocal and Piano British music for voice and piano, all written between 1970 and 1998, by the cream of contemporary compsoers
tracks:James MacMillan:
Ballad
The Children
Scots SongElizabeth Maconchy: Sun Moon and Stars / The Hill / SolitudeClothed with the StarJudith Weir:Bessie Bell and Mary GrayBonnie James CampbellLady Isobel and the Elf Knight The Gypsy LaddieThe Braes of YarrowGabriel Jackson:Liadan LamentsRobin Holloway:Olive TreeThe Palm TreeRobbers' DenFig Tree in LeafWherever we may BePeter Maxwell Davies:Farewell to Stromness Yesnaby GroundNicola LeFanu:But Stars RemainingGeorge Nicholson:Abroad and at HomeI passed by his GardenJ'ai peurCall (Incident at Weekend Party) |
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ID: NMCD003 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music 14 short songs by leading British composers - ranging from Harrison Birtwistle to Michael Nyman - drawn from Mary Wiegold's Songbook, an ever-increasing collection of works written for Wiegold and the Composers Ensemble
"Like a modern-day codex. Should nothing survive from the previous decade of British music save this, scholars would still be able to form a reliable picture of the diverse compositional activity of those years." |
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ID: NMCD025 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble A celebration of the unique contribution to contemporary music of this outstanding artist who, over the past 35 years, has given more than 350 world premieres: this collection includes songs by Anthony Payne, Brian Elias and Alison Bauld, plus Judith Weir's tribute to Chagall ('Don't let that horse') and Anthony Gilbert's quirky Beastly Jingles. |
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