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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: CC5003
Disk: 1
Type: CD
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Podkolekce: Traditional
The music of Christopher Ball has been welcomed as being the continuing traditional English style of Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Finzi but with its own individual voice and orchestral sound. The Violin Concerto clearly displays these characteristics of mood and melody with its range of emotions from the poetic to the passionate. The two orchestral items: Celtic Twilight and From the Hebrides reveal a strong Celtic influence and the ability to produce a stream of memorable melody. The 5 Bagatelles for wind trio are in a contrasting style described by MusicWeb International as ‘affable and swaggeringly cheery music… witty and utterly attractive’. |
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ID: CC5001
Disk: 1
Type: CD
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Podkolekce: Voices
This CD is a live recording of the hugely successful concert performed at London’s Royal Festival Hall in May 2008, featuring the world premiere of a choral work about the Asian tsunami of 2004, by British composer Chris Williams. This powerful and moving new piece, Songs of the Coromandel Coast, greeted by a standing ovation, is a sequel to Williams’ Tsunami Requiem, also featured here, along with his new brass quintet Malabar. Tsunami Requiem retells the events on Boxing Day 2004 intertwined with text from the requiem mass. Songs of the Coromandel Coast shows life three years on, using four contrasting sea shanties making this work powerful, moving and accessible. Malabar provides a refreshing interlude from these two choral masterpieces.
•Three highly original, accessible new works by the brilliantly versatile British composer Chris Williams
•James Gilchrist on glorious form, ‘now unsurpassed among lyric tenors in sweetness and technical security’, according to the Independent
•The internationally renowned Choir of Eltham College singing with clarity and power
•English Philharmonia and the Chorus in stunning form under their principal conductor Graham Wili
•Sparkling support from English Brass, accompanying Tsunami Requiem and performing Malabar with supreme mastery |
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ID: CC5002
Disk: 1
Type: CD
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Podkolekce: String instruments
In his prolific career, Alan Ridout (1934- 1996) composed a total of fifteen operas (including several for children), eight symphonies, twenty-five concertos for various instruments, eight string quartets and numerous shorter orchestral, choral and instrumental pieces. This CD comprises an entertaining selection of fairy tales and poems, skillfully set to music, to appeal to listeners of all ages.
Includes previously unrecorded and unpublished works from the Ridout Archive. A useful and informative introduction to the sound of string instruments for younger listeners. Narrated by veteran broadcaster, Richard Baker, who has had a long association with these works. Expertly played by the Coull Quartet, renowned for their many recordings of British music. |
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ID: CC5005
Disk: 1
Type: CD
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Kolekce: InstrumentalAn Album of popular and not so well known romantic piano works.
Helen Reid makes her debut for Omnibus Classics
Helen Reid first came to public attention when she reached the Keyboard finals of the BBC Young Musician of the Year. She has given recitals at venues including the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Fairfield Halls and Blackheath Halls, London, St. George's, Bristol, Cheltenham, the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester and the Aldeburgh and Buxton Festivals. In 2006 she was named a 'rising star' in The Independent. Helen is professor of piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Trinity College of Music Junior Department. |
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ID: CC5004
Disk: 1
Type: CD
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Podkolekce: Piano and Cello
The chamber works on this CD by Julian Dawes give a representative sample of a compelling selection from his uniquely wide-ranging and varied output,the continuing traditional English style of Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Finzi but with its own individual voice and orchestral sound.
Amongst his 20th century English influences are the pastoralism and extended tonality of Herbert Howells, the richness of Walton, the elegant delicacy of Berkeley and the jazzy impetus of Rodney Bennett; wider European influences include the caustic irony of Shostakovich and Kurt Weil, and the rhythmic impetus of Prokofiev and Stravinsky. Yet Dawes welds from these influences an individual voice that is both distinctive and refreshing, displaying assured craftsmanship and characterful invention. (Malcolm Miller 2008) |
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