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ID: NMCD013S |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: String Orchestra City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox - Barry Guy: After the Rain
After the Rain, for string orchestra, draws on Max Ernst's disturbing painting Europe After the Rain - depicting the bleak remains of a landscape left after some inexplicable catastrophe - within a work of remarkable strength and optimism. |
15.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD193 CDs: 1 Type: DVD |
Elliott and NMC by Colin Matthews ... I was as surprised as I was delighted to learn in the autumn of 2012 that Elliott Carter had asked if the recording of his 103rd birthday concert might be released on NMC. I had known Elliott since 1986, produced several recordings of his music (including the Concerto for Orchestra and the Clarinet and Violin Concertos) but had never thought that he might one day join the long list of NMC composers. It was clearly not an offer that we could think of turning down; but there was one problem that we had to resolve, because until now NMC has - with a few minor exceptions - exclusively recorded composers from the British Isles. A disc devoted to Carter was not the same as fi nding room for a small piece by Stravinsky. Elliott’s death in November 2012 - I had long believed that he must be immortal - meant that this recording would become a signifi cant memorial to him; and it made it all the more important that if we were to release it, it should be done as soon as possible. It would be a DVD - thus setting it apart from the rest of the catalogue - and a tribute to a composer who was greatly loved and admired in the United Kingdom, as the recorded interviews presented here testify. And there was one more reason for it to be an appropriate release: Elliott Carter was the last surviving pupil of Gustav Holst, whose Foundation has supported the work of NMC since its inception. |
18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD135 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble Howard Skempton’s first full-length disc for NMC - following the best-selling single Lento - is Ben Somewhen. It pairs chamber music performed by BCMG - ranging from solo cello to the exuberant yet very English Chamber Concerto - with choral music sung by EXAUDI, including the dancing, evocative setting of Shelley, The Voice of the Spirits. The title work takes its inspiration from the witty line drawings of Ben Hartley.
This disc contrasts Skempton’s choral works-including the dancing, evocative setting of Shelley’s The Voice of the Spirits and the spiritual Rise up, my love-with chamber music ranging from solo cello (the Suite from ‘Delicate’) to the exuberant, yet very English, Chamber Concerto. |
22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD147 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: Piano The Fidelio Trio - brilliant young soloists in their own right - bring the medium of piano trio back to life and straight into the twenty-first century with these four works by Ed Bennett, Deirdre Gribbin, Donnacha Dennehy and Kevin Volans - three of which were specially written for them. |
22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD141 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra The works on this disc explore Harvey’s fascination with Eastern philosophies from the ecstatic Indian text of White as Jasmine to Body Mandala. |
22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD137 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra Judith Weir's major orchestral works. including Natural History, Forest and The Welcome Arrival of Rain
Weir’s music - often inspired by her love of nature and her interest in the world around her - is fresh, intelligent, approachable and evocative. Natural History - which she describes as a Taoist Carnival of the Animals-is set to ancient Chinese texts on horses, birds, fish and men and the music hints at an oriental and exotic world and in Moon and Star Weir uses the instruments highest and lowest registers to portray the vast expanse of our universe. |
22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD149 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Chamber Orchestra Colin Matthews: Chamber works (NMC D149 - Ancora Series)
Oboe Quartet No.1, String Quartet No.2,
Divertimento for Double String Quartet, Five Concertinos for Wind Quintet, Triptych
‘[Colin Matthews is] the Isambard Kingdom Brunel of contemporary music: master of great time machines, steamy with energy derived from pulse and from massive,
surging harmony, and openly displaying their structural engineering, all finished with a craftsman's care.' Paul Griffiths
Most of the works on this disc were originally available on vinyl only; the String Quartet No.2, performed by the Brindisi Quartet, has never been released.
Ancora Series
The NMC Ancora series is devoted to the re-issue of important recordings of contemporary British works which have been deleted from other record labels.
Recent additions to the series include the Gramophone award winning performance of Harrison Birtwistle’s opera Punch and Judy and David Blake’s Violin Concerto.
This autumn we are re-releasing Birtwistle’s Secret Theatre performed by the London Sinfonietta under Elgar Howarth. |
22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD146 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Opera Collection Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra The Opera Group's lively production of Edward Rushton's new opera, described as 'part satire on rampant consumerism, part psychological thriller.’
Edward Rushton’s new opera, The Shops is described as ‘part satire on rampant consumerism, part psychological thriller’. Its central character, Christoph Schmalhans, is an obsessive stamp collector. He manages to steal prize examples from museums with the aid of his girlfriend Francesca, who distracts attention by causing scenes. His activities eventually attract the interest of the police and psychologists. In between, there is a running commentary on the phenomenon of shopaholics, along with a song-and-dance number from members of a mutual support group.
Darren Abrahams (tenor), Anna Dennis (soprano), Phyllis Cannan (contralto), Richard Burkhard (baritone), Louise Mott (mezzo-soprano), Paul Reeves (bass) |
22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD136 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: Piano For over thirty years Rex Lawson has been at the forefront of pianola music throughout the world. This recording features new music and arrangements for pianola commissioned by the Aeolian Company of London in 1921, with music from JS Bach, Arnold Bax, Frederic Cowen, Percy Grainger, Herbert Howells, Maurice Ravel, Alfredo Casella, Hubert Parry, Igor Stravinsky and others. |
22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD153 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble Thea Musgrave's dramatic evocation of JMW Turner's seascapes is coupled with her settings of Burns' poems, 'Songs for a Winters Evening', and the double concerto 'Two's Company', written for Dame Evelyn Glennie and Nicholas Daniel. |
22.00 eur Buy |
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