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Compositeur: BENNETT, Richard Rodney ((b. 1936)) |
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ID: CC0064 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: ClarinetClarinet Classics is proud and delighted to honour one of the world’s most brilliant and versatile composers and musician. To celebrate his 75th birthday, Clarinet Classics is releasing a CD which features many of Richard Rodney Bennett’s works for clarinet.
This CD, a rich and diverse collection of works, will be of great interest to listeners who wish to hear some of Richard Rodney Bennett’s more serious music.
The founder and artistic director of Clarinet Classics, Victoria Soames Samek, whose many recordings are celebrated for their masterly and musical interpretation, is joined on this fascinating and colourful disc by duo partner and pianist Michael Bell. The Inspirity String Quartet and East Winds also perform.
Well known for his film music and interest in jazz, Richard Rodney Bennett's scores include Far from the Madding Crowd and Four Weddings and Funeral.
World Premiere recording for this CD of the Bass Clarinet Sonata, newly transcribed from his Sonata for bassoon and piano by permission of the composer.
His rarely heard Clarinet Quintet - a master work of the 20th century for this combination of clarinet and strings.
A personal note from the composer.
The beautiful and melancholic Ballad in memory of Shirley Horn
His dynamic and exciting Duo, performed on this CD with electric precision by Samek and Bell. |
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ID: CC4005 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: SaxophoneR. R. Bennett: Three Piece Suite
C. Debussy: Syrinx for solo flute, arr. for saxophone
P. Dubois: Pieces characteristiques en forme de suite
Paule Maurice: Tableaux de Provence
James Rae: Sonata in Eb for alto saxophone and piano
T. Yoshimatsu: Fuzzy Bird Sonata
Sarah Markham (saxophone) & Paul Turner (piano)
Saxophone Classics Artistic Director Sarah Markham presents her debut CD for the label. This collection of largely programmatic music for saxophone spans musical eras, genres, and countries. The saxophone and piano are required to dance, serenade, mourn, depict fluffy clouds on a summer day, beautiful countryside and birds, as well as “run, sing, fly”.
The saxophone depicts a bird running, singing, and flying in Takashi Yoshimatsu’s Fuzzy Bird Sonata.
Paule Maurice’s music gives us her insight to the countryside of the Provence region of France.
We hear the distinctive flavours of Spain, Russia, France, Hungary, and Paris in Pierre Max Dubois’s suite of characteristic pieces.
Cirrus clouds and the Eurostar train feature in James Rae’s new Sonata - with this its world premiere recording.
Richard Rodney Bennett’s Three Piece Suite cannot fail to charm with its lighthearted fun depiction of a melancholic samba, homage to Scott Joplin, and funk inspired fugal finale.
“Sarah Markham...was formidably impressive... a sustained feat of exuberance... breathed an extraordinary, haunted magic. The most mesmerising thing I’ve heard all year!”
(Michael White, The Independent on Sunday)
“The saxophonist Sarah Markham... was formidable...left me wanting to hear more.”
Paul Driver, Sunday Times) |
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ID: DCD34097 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Choral and OrganThis ‘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: DCD34116 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Vocal and PianoWilliam Berger baritone
Iain Burnside piano
For his solo debut on disc, William Berger has devised an ingenious sequence of seventeen songs describing a sleepless night experienced by a man who reflects on his love for an unnamed woman. From Viennese classicism to fin-de-siècle Romanticism, shadowy English pastoral to the contemporary worlds of Richard Rodney Bennett and Raymond Yiu, this wide-ranging programme is brought to nuanced life by this outstanding young baritone. The indefatigable Iain Burnside provides lucid and imaginative accompaniment. Together, their performances vividly capture the full gamut of nocturnal emotions.
Track listing
19:30
1 Abendempfindung
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
21:30
2 Nuit d’étoiles
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
3 Le grillon
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
4 Claire de lune
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
22:30
5 The Night
Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
6 Tired
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
7 Dream-Song
Richard Rodney Bennett (b. 1936)
23:30
8 Auf der Bruck
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Midnight
9 Um Mitternacht
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
01:00
10 Schon streckt’ ich aus im Bett
Wolf
11 Mandoline
Fauré
12 Sérénade toscane
Fauré
13 Nicht länger kann ich singen
Wolf
03:00
14 Sonnet (2011)
Raymond Yiu (b. 1973)
15 Oh! quand je dors
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
16 Und steht Ihr früh am Morgen auf
Wolf
06:00
17 Morgen!
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Encores
18 Der Mond kommt still gegangen
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
19 Viens! Les gazons sont verts!
Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Total playing time [55:42] |
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ID: DSPRCS601 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: ChoirCoro’s new album 'This Christmas Night' is now available to order online but will not be comercially available through stores until Christmas 2008. All pre-orders will be shipped from Thursday 27th November.
This CD will also be on sale at Coro’s Christmas concert, St.Luke’s Church, Sydney Street, London on Saturday 13th December. |
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ID: GMCD7202 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: FluteRecorded: Potton Hall, Suffolk 1 & 2 March 2000 |
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ID: MSV28510 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: PianoA recital of works for flute and piano by British composers, this CD includes world premier recordings (the pieces by Saxton, Lock and Butterworth) and introduces music that will undoubtedly enter the standard repertoire. A first-classa reference point in modern mudsic for flute.
Tracks:
RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT:
Summer Music
Winter Music
ARTHUR BUTTERWORTH:
Aubade, premiere recording
ROBERT SAXTON:
Krystallen, premiere recording
DAVE HEATH:
Out of the Cool
BRIAN LOCK:
Flute Sonata, premiere recording
CECILIA McDOWALL:
The Moon Dances |
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ID: MSVCD92013 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: Piano and ClarinetThe works on this CD span almost 30 years, from 1965 to 1994. The most striking factor is the varying yet equally successful approach adopted in writing for the clarinet by these very different composers, all of whom cater for the unique character of the instrument.
tracks:Elizabeth Maconchy:FantasiaAnthony Powers:Sea/AirPiers Hellawell:High CitadelsHarrison Birtwistle:VersesRichard Rodney Bennett:Scena IIIHugh Wood:Paraphrase on "Bird of Paradise"Gordon Crosse:A Year and a DayMartin Butler:Capistrano Song Michael Berkeley:Flighting |
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ID: NEMACD100 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: PianoFeatures Nettle & Markham s special transcription of Scenes fromWest Side Story, presented to Bernstein for his 70th birthday. Thisunique combination of music for two pianos offers the best ofAmerican musical theatre in two exciting transcriptions as well assome masterful pastiche from Sir Richard Rodney Bennett. |
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