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Composer: IRELAND, John ((1879-1962)) |
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ID: 5060192780000
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
English love songs from Dowland to Britten.
This excellent release is a unique collection of English love songs by some of the great English composers of the 20th century including Vaughan-Williams, Purcell, Britten, Dowland, Finzi and Warlock. All of the songs are firm favourites; amongst the most well known are Silent worship, Where’er you walk, If music be the food of love and The salley gardens. Mark Stone has sung at Covent Garden most recently in “Don Giovanni” and is a regular guest at ENO, WNO, Glyndebourne and Opera North. He and Stephen Barlow regularly perform together as a recital duo and often appear on Radio 3 and in concert in the UK and abroad. |
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ID: ALBCD011
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Vaughan Williams valued the opinions of close friends on his new works, even if he did not always follow the advice given. In the early years, it was to his first wife Adeline as well as to fellow composers George Butterworth and Gustav Holst that he would turn. Later, the circle of advisers widened, to include Sir Arthur Bliss, Gerald Finzi and Herbert Howells, the conductors Sir John Barbirolli, Sir Adrian Boult and Sir Malcolm Sargent and musical friends such as R.O. Morris, Steuart Wilson, Ruth Dyson and Roy Douglas. These and many others were invited to a ‘play-through’ of Vaughan Williams’ new work. Such first hearings were arranged for piano, or two pianos, and central to many of these performances in the 1940s and 1950s was Michael Mullinar (1895 - 1973). Mullinar was an expert accompanist, teacher and composer who would on occasion venture into solo repertoire.
Vaughan Williams sketches for the Sixth Symphony and Michael Mullinar’s two-piano arrangement with various interpolations by the composer can be found in the British Library. Alan Rowlands edited the two-piano arrangement for this recording making use of the final orchestral published version to fill in any gaps. Thus we can hear for the first time what a ‘play-through’ actually sounded like. |
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ID: CHRCD008
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
She went on to say:
The upper reaches of Lott's still gleaming soprano inhabit Barber's ?Shining Night' and Fauré's ?Clair de lune'. And her robust English version of Schubert's ?Who is Sylvia?' finds an irresistible companion in Arne's ?Where the Bee Sucks', with its veritable midsummer night's dream of an accompaniment from Johnson. The artists' palpable sense of joy and well-being gathers momentum as they visit Berlioz's ?L'île inconnue' and as they sing on the water with Schubert. . . . And Lott and Johnson know well that the only way to face sentiment is to acknowledge its own integrity, as they do when they listen to Haydn Wood's ?Little Brown Bird' and eavesdrop with Fraser-Simson on Christopher Robin saying his prayers.
This CD features songs from a great variety of composers - Gershwin, Barber, Cole Porter, Bernstein, Brahms, Schubert, Arne, Schumann, Berlioz, and many more. A full 29 tracks of summer-themed songs! |
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ID: CHRCD060
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano
Dimension Piano Trio.
Anthony Hewitt - piano.
Rafal Zambrzycki-Payne - violin.
Thomas Carroll - cello. |
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ID: CMG016
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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ID: CMG017
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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ID: DCD34077
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Christmas Music
Subcollection: Organ
Thomas Laing-Reilly (the organ of St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh) St Cuthbert's Change-Ringers
Situated in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle, St Cuthbert’s Church was the first parish church in Scotland to hold candlelit services on Christmas Eve. The two-thousand-strong congregation was regularly joined by people standing in the aisles! Today, the organ continues to combine its role of supporting the singing with solo performance of varied repertoire. Director of Music Thomas Laing-Reilly has at his hands an instrument seemingly able to speak any language. Its vast palette is demonstrated with striking clarity on his debut recording, in a range of repertory which crosses national borders with disarming ease.
Track listing
1 William T. Best (1826-97)
A Christmas Fantasy on Old English Carols
2 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Chorale: Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her
3 Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her
4 Johann Pachelbel
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her (Fughetta)
5 Johann Bernhard Bach (1676-1749)
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her
6 Johann Sebastian Bach
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her, BWV738
7 Max Reger (1873-1916)
Weihnachten, Op. 145 No. 3
8 Jean-François Dandrieu (1682-1738)
Noël cette Journée
9 Jean-François Dandrieu
Il n’est rien de plus tendre
10 Louis-Claude d’Aquin (1694-1772)
Noël X
11 Pierre Cochereau (1924-84), transcr. J. Filsell
Variations on ‘Adeste Fideles’
12 Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)
Noël Ecossais
13 Jeanne Demessieux (1921-68)
Adeste Fideles (Musette)
14 Jean Langlais (1907-91)
Noël Breton (Huit Chants de Bretagne)
15 John Ireland (1879-1962)
The Holy Boy (A Carol of the Nativity)
16 Sir Arthur Somervell (1863-1937)
Shepherd’s Cradle Song
17 Alfred Hollins (1865-1942)
Christmas Cradle Song
18 Garth Edmundson (1900-71)
Vom Himmel hoch (Toccata-Prelude IV)
19 The Bells of St Cuthbert’s Church
St Cuthbert’s Change-Ringers
Total playing time [77.50] |
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ID: DCD34089
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Organ Collection
Subcollection: Organ
1 William T. Best (1826-97)
A Christmas Fantasy on Old English Carols
2 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Chorale: Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her
3 Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her
4 Johann Pachelbel
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her (Fughetta)
5 Johann Bernhard Bach (1676-1749)
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her
6 Johann Sebastian Bach
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her, BWV738
7 Max Reger (1873-1916)
Weihnachten, Op. 145 No. 3
8 Jean-François Dandrieu (1682-1738)
Noël cette Journée
9 Jean-François Dandrieu
Il n’est rien de plus tendre
10 Louis-Claude d’Aquin (1694-1772)
Noël X
11 Pierre Cochereau (1924-84), transcr. J. Filsell
Variations on ‘Adeste Fideles’
12 Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)
Noël Ecossais
13 Jeanne Demessieux (1921-68)
Adeste Fideles (Musette)
14 Jean Langlais (1907-91)
Noël Breton (Huit Chants de Bretagne)
15 John Ireland (1879-1962)
The Holy Boy (A Carol of the Nativity)
16 Sir Arthur Somervell (1863-1937)
Shepherd’s Cradle Song
17 Alfred Hollins (1865-1942)
Christmas Cradle Song
18 Garth Edmundson (1900-71)
Vom Himmel hoch (Toccata-Prelude IV)
19 The Bells of St Cuthbert’s Church
St Cuthbert’s Change-Ringers
Total playing time [77.50]
Carleton Etherington (organ)
Few ecclesiastical buildings in the United Kingdom can boast possessing two pipe organs; of those that can, fewer still can rival the quality of the ‘Grove’ and ‘Milton’ organs in Tewkesbury’s magnificent Norman abbey. It must have been something of a coup for the organ builders Michell & Thynne to hear the legendary organist William Thomas Best proclaim their latest instrument (on show at the Liverpool Exhibition of 1886) to be “the finest organ of its kind that I have ever played upon”. Their ‘model organ’ was designed to be as flexible as possible within the confines of the smallest number of stops, and the result was an immediate success: its first appearance at the 1885 Inventions Exhibition in London caused something of a sensation amongst the organ cognoscenti. The blind organist Alfred Hollins, not long out of college, was one of a number of players who gave regular recitals on the instrument both at the London exhibition, and subsequently the following year in Liverpool.
Tewkesbury Abbey’s other organ known as the ‘Milton’ is a happy example of enlargement and rebuilding over the decades, resulting in its current incarnation as a flexible and thoroughly contemporary instrument capable of interpreting a wide spectrum of the repertoire This recording demonstrates the unique qualities of each instrument in a programme of concert organ works by some of the finest organists and composers of the past two centuries. |
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ID: DCD34097
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Choral and Organ
This ‘songbook’ is unique to the Schola Cantorum choristers of Tewkesbury Abbey. “Essentially, it's a showcase for the Abbey trebles,” their Director of Music Benjamin Nicholas explains. “We’ve been assembling our own Songbook for quite a while now - the songs the trebles sing, from time to time, in boys-only concerts, and that they are taught in individual singing lessons. I’ve always been keen to build each boy up as a soloist, not necessarily with the express idea of them singing lots of solos, but so that they can learn to sing in a soloistic way.”
This is evident most of all in the distinctive singing of 11- year-old Laurence Kilsby, whose gifts won him the BBC Chorister of the Year competition in 2009. On this recording, he features as soloist in two Shelley settings by Roger Quilter, the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria and in John Ireland’s beautiful, sincerely-felt Passiontide motet Ex Ore Innocentium from 1944.
Laurence Kilsby (treble), Helen Porter (piano), Carleton Etherington (organ)
The trebles of Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, Benjamin Nicholas (director)
Track listing
1 Music, When Soft Voices Die
Roger Quilter
2 Vater Unser
Arvo Pärt
3 Fairest Isle (Address To Britain)
Henry Purcell
4 Love’s Philosophy
Quilter
5 The Land Of Spices
Gabriel Jackson
6 Whispers
Howard Skempton
7 O Salutaris Hostia
Léo Delibes
8 Ex Ore Innocentium
John Ireland
9 The Flower
Philip Wilby
10 A Song At Evening
Richard Rodney Bennett
11 Ave Maria
J.S. Bach / Charles Gounod
12 Nymphs And Shepherds
Purcell
13 Dutch Carol
James MacMillan
14 I Will Give My Love An Apple
trad., arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
15 Linden Lea
Vaughan Williams
16 Dirge For Fidele
Vaughan Williams
17 Somewhere
Leonard Bernstein
18 Sure On This Shining Night
Samuel Barber
19 At The River
Robert Lowry, arr. Aaron Copland
20 The Lord’s Prayer
John Tavener, arr. Barry Rose
21 Wedding Introit
MacMillan
22 I Sing Of A Maiden
Patrick Hadley
23 Skye Boat Song
trad., arr. Percy Grainger
24 How Can I Keep From Singing?
Lowry, arr. John Scott
Total playing time [66:42] |
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ID: DSPRCD010
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano
All works performed by the composers on piano |
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