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Composer: MacRAE, Stuart ((b. 1976)) |
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Stuart MacRae was born in Inverness, Scotland, in 1976. After reading music at Durham University with Philip Cashian, Sohrab Uduman and Michael Zev Gordon, he went on to study composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Simon Bainbridge and Robert Saxton.
MacRae first came to public attention as a finalist in the 1996 Lloyd’s Bank Young Composer’s Workshop, when his orchestral piece Boeraig was given its first professional performance by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Martyn Brabbins. The same orchestra went on to give the first performance of The Witch’s Kiss in the following year, this time under the baton of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. As part of the 1997 BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Composers’ Forum, Landscape and the Mind: Distance, Refuge was given its first performance, conducted by Martyn Brabbins.
2001 saw the première of MacRae’s Violin Concerto at the BBC Proms. The piece, initially performed by Tasmin Little and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins, was later taken up by Christian Tetzlaff who was the soloist at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival performance with the Orchestre de Lyon conducted by David Robertson; between 1999 and 2003, MacRae was Composer-in-Association with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
2005 saw the first performances of two significant works - Two Scenes from the Death of Count Ugolino and Three Pictures; the latter was commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, which gave the première in Glasgow in May 2005 under the direction of Oliver Knussen. MacRae recently completed his first opera: The Assassin Tree (2006), featuring a libretto by poet Simon Armitage, was co-commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival and the Royal Opera House. |
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ID: DCD34009
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
*world premiere recordings
Simon Smith’s astounding debut recording features a kaleidoscope of piano works by Scottish composers James MacMillan and Stuart MacRae. Smith’s fluency in these contemporary pieces is exuberant and definitive, from subtle murmur to virtuosic flourish.
"Simon Smith is a phenomenal pianist... A strong, meaty recital, played with complete authority by a remarkable young musician" - The Herald
"I'm impressed with the way Simon Smith plays this piece - he brings an extraordinary energy to the first movement and a good deal of sensitivity and shape to the second, and I'm very glad his interpretation has been recorded here." - Stuart MacRae
Track listing
James MacMillan
1. In angustiis...I
2. Birthday Present
3. Barncleupédie
4. Lumen Christi
Piano Sonata
5. I. Adagio
6. II. Grandioso ed affretando
7. III. Adagio
8. For Ian
9. A Cecilian Variation for JFK
10. Angel
Stuart MacRae
Piano Sonata
11. I. Variation
12. II. Erosion/Glacial
This recording was made possible with the assistance of the Scottlsh Arts Council. |
| 15.00 eur Buy |
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ID: DCD34075
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Choral and Organ
A significant Christmas release: Geoffrey Webber has put together a fantastic programme which Delphian had fun recording in the glorious acoustics of St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast. Fresh from their 2009 Gramophone Editor's Choice, Webber's choir has put together an intriguing programme in which medieval works illuminate contemporary settings by some of the UK's finest living composers. From the plangent innocence of Sweeney's The Innumerable Christ to the shining antiphony of Burrell's Creator of the Stars of Night, this selection will seduce. Caius, as we've come to expect, combine polish with verve, Webber's meticulous attention to detail floodlit by the bathing acoustics of St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast.
Track listing
1 Diana Burrell - Creator of the Stars of Night
2 Judith Bingham - Annunciation
3 Stuart MacRae - Adam lay y-bounden
4 13th-c. English - Edi beo thu
5 Richard Causton -Cradle Song
6 Francis Pott -That yongë child
7 John Dunstaple - Quam pulchra es
8 Gabriel Jackson -Salus aeterna
9 16th-c. English - Salvator mundi Domine
10 Howard Skempton - To Bethlem did they go
11 Judith Bingham - God would be born in thee
12 John Redford - Tui sunt caeli
13 Howard Skempton - Into this world, this day did come
14 William Sweeney - The Innumerable Christ
15 12th-c. English - Verbum Patris umanatur
16 Diana Burrell - Christo paremus cantica
17 Robin Holloway - Christmas Carol
18 15th-c. English - Nowell sing we
19 Judith Bingham - Incarnation with shepherds dancing
20 Gabriel Jackson - Nowell sing we Listen
Total playing time [75:28]
Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber |
| 15.00 eur Buy |
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ID: KAI0012442
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
The method of composition, which has recourse to existing musical material, reworking it into a new composition, figures as a central principle of occidental music history. This applies particularly to the mass and motet compositions of the Renaissance, when this method of adopting and reworking existing music represented one of the key features of musical production. An especially vivid example - which however remains singular in its appearance - for the continuous engagement with a certain musical “theme” is the English “In Nomine“ genre dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries.
This tradition started out with the six-voice mass Gloria tibi Trinitas by John Taverner (around 1495-1545), composed no later than around 1528. To the words “In nomine Domini” the section of the Benedictus (the lyrics are: “Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini” - “blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord”) has a salient four-voice section, which, as cantus firmus in the alto part, contains the antiphon “Gloria tibi Trinitas” quoted in its entirety.
Includes booklet with text by Torsten Blaich |
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ID: NMCD115
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Violin
Stuart MacRae's Violin Concerto, commissioned for the 2001 BBC Proms, is performed here by soloist Christian Tetzlaff with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under its chief conductor Ilan Volkov; it is coupled with Stirling Choruses, written for the brass section of the BBC SSO, which portrays the “dark and foreboding” Stirling Castle.
These are works are joined by Motus, a processional for 6 instruments; and Two Scenes from the Death of Count Ugolino, for voice and instrumental ensemble - based on a gruesome section of Dante’s Inferno, and featuring mezzo-soprano Loré Lixenberg.
1-4 - Christian Tetzlaff violin/ BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/ Ilan Volkov conductor
5-6 - Loré Lixenberg mezzo-soprano/ BCMG/ Susanna Mälkki conductor
7 - BCMG/ Susanna Mälkki conductor
8 - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/ Ilan Volkov conductor |
| 22.00 eur Buy |
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