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Composer: HOWELLS, Herbert Norman ((1892-1983)) |
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ID: BGS117
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Guitar
(CD also has CDROM bonus footage with movie)
The prize winning Eden Stell Guitar Duo take a new direction with the release of their CD ‘MUSIC FOR AN ISLAND’ BGS117. The Duo’s passion for performance innovation has resulted in a finely crafted and synchronised multimedia concert of music and images inspired by landscapes and locations from around the UK.
The diverse programme covers the length and breadth of the British Isles from the Orkney Isles to the seaside promenade of Eastbourne, taking in the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, leafy Sherwood Forest, and the Beatles’ Liverpool along the way. |
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ID: COR16004
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Choir
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ID: COR16054
CDs: 3
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Christmas Music
The perfect gift for Christmas - three of The Sixteen’s most celebrated festive CDs in a Boxset. From medieval carols with fiddles, harps and drums to the traditional carols we know and love, this collection includes favourite twentieth century English carols. |
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ID: DCD34019
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choral and Organ
For 32 years the Abbey School Choir sang daily evensong in Tewkesbury Abbey and one of their final services was captured for posterity by Delphian. In this recording swansong, the choir offers a treasurable memento of a uniquely English Office; complete with lessons and prayers, this sumptuous tapestry of Anglican jewels also includes the first recording of Gabriel Jackson’s refulgent new setting of the Evening Canticles. Reborn as Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, the choir was immediately signed by Delphian and has embarked on a series of much-lauded recordings.
Alcock, W G:
Psalm 91 'Whoso dwelleth under the defence of the Most High'
Howells:
Pieces (6): Master Tallis's Testament
Collegium Regale: Te Deum
Jackson, Gabriel:
Tewkesbury Service: Magnificat - premiere recording
Second Lesson (1 Corinthians 13)
Tewkesbury Service: Nunc Dimittis - premiere recording
Creed
Peterson, M:
Psalm 131
First Lesson (Isaiah 6: 1-8)
Statham, H:
Preces
Responses and Collects
Tallis:
Sancte Deus
Vaughan Williams:
Valiant for Truth
The day thou gavest (St Clement)
Vierne, L:
Toccata in B flat minor
Carleton Etherington (organ)
The Abbey School Choir, Tewkesbury, Benjamin Nicholas (director) |
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ID: DCD34047
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Christmas Music
In the vast, echoing space of their Mediaeval home the boys and men of Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum celebrate the awe and mystery of Christmas, ushering in the birth of the Christchild with a sequence of carols from the last two centuries that combines familiar names with offerings from some of today's foremost composers.
Track listing
1. The Magi *
Gabriel Jackson (b. 1962)
2. Lux Aurumque
Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)
3. Lullay, dear Jesus
Arnold Bax (1883-1953)
4. The Word Made Flesh
Philip Wilby (b. 1949)
5. The Kings
Peter Cornelius (1869-1953)
6. The Virgin’s Slumber Song
Max Reger (1873-1916)
7. Welcome, Yule!
C. Hubert H. Parry (1848-1918)
8. There is no rose of such virtue
John Joubert (b. 1927)
9. Quem pastores laudavere
James Bassi (b. 1961)
10. La Nativité
Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
11. O, my deir hert (Cradle Song)
Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
12. I wonder as I wander
Carl Rütti (b. 1949)
13. Thou whose birth *
Gabriel Jackson
14. When Christ was born of Mary free *
C. Hubert H. Parry
15. The Three Kings
Jonathan Dove (b. 1959)
16. God is with us (A Christmas Proclamation)
John Tavener (b. 1944)
17. Vom Himmel Hoch (Toccata-Prelude IV)
Garth Edmondson (1900-1971)
Total playing time: [66:02]
* world premiere recordings |
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ID: DCD34100
CDs: 4
Type:
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Collection: Organ Collection
Subcollection: Organ
Various Artists
Edinburgh's churches and concert halls are home to a rich variety of pipe organs. Open this lavishly-scaled book (30cm x 27cm) and step into a world of glorious architecture and fascinating history. In amongst these 100 pages twenty-two of the city's most notable instruments and their venues are surveyed in full colour. Meanwhile 12 illustrious players - all with deep-rooted Edinburgh connections - demonstrate the full range and versatility of these instruments on the four accompanying CDs. The full gamut of the repertoire is here, and Edinburgh's organs have the voices to match. Isn't it time to lift the veil from some of the closest-guarded treasures of one of the world's great cities? Only 2,000 numbered copies will ever be made available; demand for these is very high, so please place your order early to avoid dissapointment.
Track Listing:
CD1
Usher Hall - John Kitchen
1 Percy Whitlock (1903-1946) Sonata in C minor - i. Grave
2 Alfred Hollins (1865-1942), Evening Rest
St Cuthbert’s Parish Church - Thomas Laing-Reilly
3 Eugène Gigout (1844-1925) Grand Choeur dialogué (no 6 from Six Pièces)
4 Jean Langlais (1907-1991) Méditation (no 4 from Suite Médiévale, Op
5 Louis Vierne (1870-1937) Carillon de Westminster (no 6 from Pièces de Fantaisie, Op 54)
Palmerston Place Church - Andrew Caskie
6 Dieterich Buxtehude (c.1637-1707) toccata in F, BuxWV157
7 George Baker (b. 1951) Berceuse Paraphrase
8 William Mathias (1934-1992) Fanfare
St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral - Duncan Ferguson
9 Herbert Howells (1892-1983) Master Tallis’s Testament (no 3 from Six Pieces)
10 Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988) Fantasy 5 ‘Veni Emmanuel’ (from Six Fantasies on Hymn Tunes, Op 72)
11 Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) Choral varié (from Prélude, adagio et choral varié sur le thème de ‘Veni Creator’, Op 4)
Freemasons’ Hall - Timothy Byram-Wigfield
12 Judith Bingham (b. 1952) St Bride, assisted by angels
Total playing time [78:42]
CD2
Freemasons’ Hall - Timothy Byram-Wigfield
1 W. Battison Haynes (1859-1900) introduction and Variations on a Ground Bass
St Andrew’s and St George’s West Parish Church, George Street - Michael Harris
2 Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713-1780) Fantasia sopra ‘Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend’
3 Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck (1770-1846), Six Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op 56
Broughton St Mary’s Parish Church - John Kitchen
4 C. Hubert H. Parry (1848-1918) Elegy for April 7, 1913
5 Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Prelude and Fugue in d minor, Op 37 no 3
St Thomas’ Junction Road Parish Church, Leith - Peter Backhouse
6 Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) Prelude in F (no 1 from Six Short Preludes and Postludes, Set 1, Op 101)
7 Edward Bairstow (1874-1946) Evening Song
8 Charles Villiers Stanford Postlude in G minor (no 2 from Six Short Preludes and Postludes, Set 1, Op 101)
Pilrig St Paul’s Church - Andrew Caskie
9 Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901) Organ Sonata no 7 in F minor, Op 127 - i. Allegro non troppo
10 George Thalben-Ball (1896-1987) Elegy in F (no 11 from A Little Organ Book in memory of Hubert Parry)
St Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral - Simon Nieminski
11 Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) Organ Symphony no 6 in G minor, Op 42 - i. Allegro
12 Giles Swayne (b. 1946) Mr Bach’s Bottle Bank
Total playing time [74:19]
CD3
Canongate Kirk - Nicholas Wearne
1 Niels Christian Rasmussen (b. 1950) Variationer og modspil
2 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV649
St Giles’ Cathedral - Michael Harris
3 César Franck (1822-1890) Pièce Héroïque (No 3 from Trois Pièces)
4 J.S. Bach, Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn, BWV648
5 Kenneth Leighton, Paean Royal Order of Scotland - Nicholas Wearne
6 John Stanley (1712-1786) Voluntary No 3 in D minor (from Ten Voluntaries, Op 7)
7 Eddie McGuire (b. 1948), Ae Fond Kist recorded premiere, commissioned by Paul Baxter with support from the Scottish Arts Council
Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh - Nicholas Wearne
8 Dieterich Buxtehude Te Deum laudamus, BuxWV218
McEwan Hall, University of Edinburgh - Michael Bonaventure
9 Judith Weir (b. 1954) Wild Mossy Mountains
10 Avril Anderson (b. 1953) Repetitive Strain
Enharmonic Chamber Organ, Laigh Room, St Cecilia’s Hall - John Kitchen
11 Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656) Voluntary
12 attrib. Benjamin Cosyn (c.1570-1653) [Voluntary]
13 James Nares (1715-1783) Introduction and Fugue in A minor/major
Total playing time [76:20]
CD4
Home of John Kitchen - John Kitchen 1 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) Variations on ‘Est-ce mars?’
Morningside Parish Church - Morley Whitehead
2 Herbert Murrill (1909-1952) Postlude on a Ground
3 Michael Christian Festing (1705-1752), transcr. G. Thalben-Ball Largo, Allegro, Aria and Two Variations
4 César Franck, Andantino in G minor
Reid Memorial Church -- Roger Fisher
5 Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921), arr. W. Creser, ed. Fisher Overture to Hänsel und Gretel
6 Peter Warlock (1894-1930), transcr. R. Fisher Pieds en l’air (from Capriol Suite)
7 Alfred Hollins, Maytime Gavotte
St Michael’s Parish Church, Inveresk - Peter Backhouse
8 Henry Smart (1813-1879) Postlude in D
9 Francis Jackson (b. 1917) Prelude on ‘East Acklam’ (No 4 from Five Preludes on English Hymn Tunes, Op 60)
Loretto School - Michael Bonaventure
10 John McCabe (b. 1939) Dies Resurrectionis
11 Graham Fitkin (b. 1963), Organ
St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Dalkeith - John Kitchen
12 Samuel Wesley (1766-1837) Air (No 8 of Twelve Short Pieces)
13 Samuel Wesley Gavotte (No 9 of Twelve Short Pieces)
14 Felix Mendelssohn Theme and Variations in D
15 Samuel Wesley Full Organ with the Trumpet (No 13 [sic] of Twelve Short Pieces)
Total playing time [74:19] |
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ID: DSPRCD059
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano
Originally recorded for Gamut in 1990 and 1994, these recordings of unusual piano repertoire are now available on CD for the first time in 20 years -a must have for piano music enthusiasts! |
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ID: GCCD4049
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Cathedral Choir
This debut recording features music from 12th to 21st Century celebrating the lives & devotions of female saints. |
| 15.00 eur Buy |
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ID: GMCD7119
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Neither Herbert Howells nor Bernard Stevens were prolific composers, and both - for different reasons - found themselves sidelined by more fashionable figures during their lifetimes. But the integrity of their music, the inherent nobility of their chosen expression, and their distinctive individuality, have ensured that their music has not died, but has found new and exciting champions - and responsive and eager audiences - amongst the younger music-lovers and record-buyers of today. This is all to the good, and when we hear such immediately compelling music as Howells’s three pieces from his Opus 14, alongside his much later Sonatina of 1971 (written in his 80th year) we must wonder as to why this music has been so comparatively overlooked.
The same is also true of the piano music of the brilliant Bernard Stevens. There are many who feel, with much justification, that Stevens’s reputation as a composer suffered greatly, and unfairly, from his championship of Communism - although he resigned from the Party following the Russian invasion of Hungary in 1956 - and yet his music speaks to us purely as music, and as nothing else. His voice, like Howells’s, is a distinctive one, music by a composer with something to say and - more importantly - with the technical means to say it.
The result is a body of piano music to set alongside his noble symphonies and concertos. The Sonata in One Movement is a fine work of considerable integrity and individuality - like the two other Stevens pieces on this disc, it demands a player of technical ability as well as of musical command, a player such as we find in the gifted pianist Jeremy Filsell, whose commitment to the music of both these English masters can be clearly discerned in his brilliant and sensitive playing. |
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