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Composer: CASKEN, John ((b.1949)) |
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ID: MSV28507
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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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) |
| 12.00 eur Buy |
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ID: MSVCD92076
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble
Ensemble 10/10; member of psappha; RNCM New Ensemble & Wind Orchestra; Apollo Saxophone Quartet; various soloists
A very varied selection of fine chamber/orchestral music by one of Britain's most accomplished composers.
tracks: Infanta Marina Rachael Pankhurst (cor anglais), Ensemble 10.10, conducted by Clark Rundell Après un Silence Lesley Hatfield (violin), Andrew Ball (piano) Firewhirl Patricia Rozario (soprano), Ensemble 10/10, conducted by Clark Rundell Piano Quartet Richard Casey (piano), David Routledge (violin), David Aspin (viola), Jennifer Langridge (cello) Après un Silence (emsemble version) Kyra Humphreys (violin), RNCM New Ensemble, conducted by Clark Rundell Salamandra - Fire-Haunt Andrew Ball & Juian Jacobson (pianos) Amarantos Ensemble 10/10 conducted by Clark Rundell Distant Variations Apollo Saxophone Quartet, RNCM Wind Orchestra, conducted by Clark Rundell |
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ID: MSVCD92100
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
New French Song has created a whole new repertoire of songs by British composers. The artists commissioned twenty exceptional British composers, some of whom were well established, others of whom were yet to receive the recognition they deserve. The composers were asked to set French literature of their choice from the past two hundred years. The result is a fascinating rainbow work covering all the major literary movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, overlapping into the twenty-first century - Romanticism, Symbolism, Surrealism, Cubism, Modernism and post-Modernism.
tracks: O'Regan: Sainte Harrison: ...issu stellaire.. Todd: Le Pont Mirabeau Cowie: Les Hiboux Chilcott: L'enfant dort Casken: Colloque Sentimental Crane: Tour de France Statistics 1902-2003 Gorb: La Cloche Fêlée Jackson: A la Mémoire de Claude Debussy Finnissy: Salomé Keeling: Artemis Wood: Alicante Burrell: Longtemps ce fut l'été Roe: Pourquoi? LeFanu: Billet à Whistler McGuire: Rêves de la Bonne Heure Bingham: La Jeune Morte Redgate: Mirlitonnades Skempton: Le Pont Mirabeau Fitkin: Les Aliments Blancs |
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ID: NMCD086
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Cello Collection
Subcollection: Cello and Symphony Orchestra
Casken's lyrical Cello Concerto is coupled with Maharal Dreaming, a vivid orchestral fantasy derived from his opera Golem; the glittering showpiece for strings, Darting the Skiff; and the theatrical and exuberant Vaganza, with its echoes of Petrushka.
These recordings were originally released on Collins Classics.
Reissued with funding from Arts Council England.
Casken's acerbic musical architecture is ideal for this ensemble; an ensemble whose smoothness of sound in the Mahlerian figures of Darting the Skiff is balanced by their precise articulation of Vaganza and subdued sonority in Maharal Dreaming. With Schiff's cool, mellifluous account of the Cello Concerto at its centre, this Casken retrospective is a must for any new music devotee.The Independent on Sunday |
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ID: NMCD113
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Opera
John Casken's powerfully moving opera Golem, winner of the first Britten Award for Composition, is reissued in NMC's Ancora series.
This recording was originally released on Virgin Classics. |
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ID: NMCD189
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Sophia Jaffé, Hallé, Markus Stenz - Casken: Orion Over Farne
Tracklisting
1.Sophia Jaffé, Hallé, Markus Stenz - Violin Concerto: I. Appassionato
2.Sophia Jaffé, Hallé, Markus Stenz - Violin Concerto: II. Cantabile
3.Sophia Jaffé, Hallé, Markus Stenz - Violin Concerto: III. Marcato e ritmico
4.Hallé, Markus Stenz - Concerto for Orchestra: I. Dramatic and Sudden
5.Hallé, Markus Stenz - Concerto for Orchestra: II. Resolute
6.Hallé, Markus Stenz - Concerto for Orchestra: III. Calm and Unhurried
7.Hallé, Markus Stenz - Concerto for Orchestra: IV. Intense and Energetic
8.Hallé, Markus Stenz - Orion Over Farne: I
9.Hallé, Markus Stenz - Orion Over Farne: II
10.Hallé, Markus Stenz - Orion Over Farne: III
11.Hallé, Markus Stenz - Orion Over Farne: IV |
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