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Composer: LUTYENS, Elisabeth ((1906-1984)) |
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ID: CC0007
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
LeFanu: Lullaby & Nocturne
Lutyens: Trio
Marsh, R: Ferry Music
Powers: Trio
Williams, Graham: The Song Within
Victoria Soames Samek - clarinet Julia Vohralik - cello Jonathan Higgins - piano
Full listing Elisabeth Lutyens - Trio; Graham Williams - Song Within; Roger Marsh - Ferry Music; Nicola LeFanu - Lullaby & Nocturne; Anthony Powers - Trio
Over the last decade The Mühlfeld Ensemble has played a leading role in commissioning new music featuring the clarinet- particularly from English composers. On this new release it presents five of the best works by composers of different generations.
Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983) wrote film music for Hammer horror movies to pay the rent but in her concert music was adventurous and visionary. This was especially true of her later years where she developed a style that was spare and poignant as can be seen in her Trio (1979). |
| 15.00 eur Buy |
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ID: CC2011
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Oboe
Janet Craxton (1929-81) founded the London Oboe Quartet with Perry Hart (violin), Brian Hawkins (viola) and Kenneth Heath (cello) in 1968, and later with Charles Tunnell (cello) after Kenneth Heath's death in 1977. During the twelve years of its existence the Quartet played at most of the major UK music festivals and made frequent BBC broadcasts, from which these recordings are taken. Janet Craxton was always a champion of new music, and the Quartet commissioned five of the six works on this CD, as well as music by Neil Sanders, Alan Rawsthorne, Oliver Knussen, John Exton and John McCabe.
A previous Oboe Classics CD, An English Renaissance, celebrated Leon Goossens with a number of works inspired by his oboe playing. In the notes for that CD George Caird commented that in the generation following Goossens „the oboe playing of Janet Craxton should be singled out as the torch-bearer for music for oboe and strings. But that, and the composers who wrote for her, is another story.“ |
| 21.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD031
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
Three recordings from 1941, publicly available for the first time following transfer from the original 78rpm discs and lengthy subsequent treatment: the centrepiece is an off-air recording of the American premiere of Les Illuminations with Peter Pears.
1. BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Oliver Knussen, conductor/ Stefan Asbury, assistant conductor
2. London Sinfonietta/ Oliver Knussen, conductor
3. William Howard, piano - Anthony Powers
4. Composers Ensemble/ Diego Masson, conductor
5. Alexander Baillie, cello/ Andrew Ball, piano
6. Mary Wiegold, soprano/ Composers Ensemble/ Dominic Muldowney, cond
7. Mstislav Rostropovich, cello/ London Symphony Orchestra/ Hugh Wolff, conductor
8. BBC Singers/ John Poole, conductor
9. Jane's Minstrels/ Roger Montgomery, conductor
10. Nua Nos/ Noriko Kawai, piano/ Dairine Ni Mheadhra, conductor
11. Jane Manning, soprano/ Jane's Minstrels/ Roger Montgomery, conductor
12. London Sinfonietta | Peter Serkin, cello | Oliver Knussen, conductor
13. Sounds Positive/ David Sutton-Anderson, conductor
14. Martin Robertson, saxophone/ Christopher van Kampen, cello/ The Nash Ensemble/ Oliver Knussen, conductor
15. BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Andrew Davis, conductor
16. Peter Pears, tenor/ CBS Symphony Orchestra/ Benjamin Britten, conductor |
| 22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD073
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
Britten's early score for Agatha Christie thriller Love From a Stranger is coupled with scores by Roberto Gerhard - for Lindsay Anderson's intense 1963 drama This Sporting Life - Richard Rodney Bennett's lush, romantic score to The Return of the Soldier, and Elisabeth Lutyens' superlatively creepy music for 60s horror film The Skull. |
| 22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD124
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: String instruments
A tribute to this radical and influential composer in the centenary of her birth, this CD presents a selection of Lutyens' varied and inspirational choral works - including the Motet setting of excerpts of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and the Chaucer setting The Country of the Stars - with a series of instrumental pieces includng the fearsomely difficult String Trio and the lyrical Presages for solo oboe.
1-9 - Melinda Maxwell, oboe
10, 20, 21, 31 - EXAUDI - James Weeks, director
11-19, 29, 30 - Endymion: Helen Keen, flute/ Mark van de Wiel, clarinet/ Robin O'Neill, bassoon |
| 22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: SIGCD053
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Signum Classics are proud to announce The Brunel Ensemble's first disc on Signum Classics - Red Leaves.
No ensemble other ensemble is as committed to the performance of such works from all decades of the twentieth century. Formed in 1992, the group gives thrilling performances under Christopher Austin’s inspired direction.
John McCabe’s Red Leaves was commissioned by the European Community Chamber Orchestra and the 1991 Istanbul Festival. Composer Malcom Williamson studied with Elisabeth Lutyens (as did Robert Saxton) and he was Master of the Queen’s Music until his death in 2003. One of Lutyens’ first major success was a setting of Rimbaud, O Saisons, O Chateau encored at the first performance in 1947 - but noteable for having previously been turned down by the BBC as unsingable!
The McCabe and Williamson pieces are linked by the common theme of nature, the latter being inspired by Australian landscape and history. It was commissioned for the 150th Anniversary of the State of Victoria. For his anniversary greeting of 1986 on the occasion of his colleague’s half century, Robert Saxton presented his Birthday Piece for Richard Rodney Bennett. In which he chose in time-honoured manner to extract from Bennett’s name the musical notes available as a thematic cipher, and to fashion them after his own manner into a bracing invention for strings. Red Leaves is a disc of modern works by British composers. |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: TRO-CD01418
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Quartet
Recording: Bauer Studios Ludwigsburg Recording and editing: Adrian von Ripka
* World Premiere Recording |
| 15.00 eur Buy |
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ID: TRO-LP01401
CDs: 1
Type: LP
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Quartet
Recording:
1. Nov. 1987, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Studio 3
Recording Engineer: Ing. Karl Grobholz, Munich
Mastering: Bauer Studios , Ludwigsburg
Coproduction with Bayerischer Rundfunk
* World Premiere Recording |
| 10.00 eur Buy |
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