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ID: NMCD055
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Choir
Peter Paul Nash's complex, multi-layered Symphony No.1 was inspired by newspaper reports of atrocities carried out during the Gulf War; the expressive, technically innovative Apollinaire Choruses combine the sensual with the intellectual. |
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ID: NMCD058
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Cello Collection
Subcollection: Cello
Memories of Morning: Night sets passages from Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea - the story of Jane Eyre from the perspective of 'the madwoman in the attic', the first Mrs Rochester; it is coupled with the brooding Cello Concerto and sardonic Marches. |
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ID: NMCD059
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Bassoon Collection
Subcollection: Bassoon
Bainbridge's Grawemeyer Award-winning Ad ora incerta (At an uncertain hour), is a deeply-felt symphonic setting of four poems by Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi. It is coupled with Four Primo Levi Settings. |
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ID: NMCD062
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
3 sets of variations - two previously unrecorded - with contributions from 19 British composers ranging from William Walton to Judith Weir |
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ID: NMCD064
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
Elias's acclaimed settings of the anguished poetry of exiled Russian author Irina Ratushinskaya are coupled with Laments, which sets traditional folk texts of loss and mourning in the nearly extinct Sicilian-Greek dialect, Grico |
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ID: NMCD067
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
Two richly dramatic orchestral scores are presented on this disc. In the Dark Time takes its title from TS Eliot's Four Quartets and reflects the turning of the seasons from winter to spring; and Chaconne, inspired by the site of a medieval battlefield. |
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ID: NMCD069
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
Both Anthony Gilbert's brilliant woodwind writing and his long association with the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester are showcased on this disc, featuring performances by the RNCM's acclaimed New Ensemble and Wind Orchestra, and concluding with the brilliant and playful tribute to Stravinsky, Igorochki. |
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ID: NMCD070
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Hugh Wood's Symphony is his most ambitious work to date: its four movements refer to musical sources as diverse as Mozart, Wagner and Janacek while never detracting from its coherence and power. It is coupled with Wood's dramatic setting of Milton's poem, the story of a wanderer lost in an enchanted wood. |
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ID: NMCD071
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
Four substantial orchestral works by John Woolrich: The Barber's Timepiece, inspired by a short story by Italo Calvino; the Oboe Concerto, featuring Nicholas Daniel; The Ghost in the Machine, which explores the idea of order sliding into chaos; and the Viola Concerto, which is structured as a cycle of 'songs without words', alluding to Tristan, Mozart's Idomeneo and Cosi fan tutte, Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte and madrigals by Monteverdi.
Editor's Choice: "A strong and individual voice in music of real substance. The fine soloists bring the concertos vividly to life. Well worth exploring."Gramophone 2001 |
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ID: NMCD072
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
Vic Hoyland's energetic and forceful work, In transit, pitches massive orchestral forces against each other; the central mood of the work has been described by the composer as "a joy in generating energy - making numbers dance". The joint inspirations for Vixen are Hoyland's earlier work Fox, an 11th-century Persian philosopher, and the intricate geometries of Muslim architecture. This wide-ranging work for large orchestra contrasts the dark and sensuous orchestral textures of Mahler with exotically Messiaenic percussion. |
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