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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: GMCD7226
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Choral and Organ
Christopher Eastwood plays the organ for In The Bleak Midwinter, and conducts The Three Kings.
Mark Williams (A Spotless Rose)
Rebecca Willcox (In The Bleak Midwinter)
William Tallon (In The Bleak Midwinter)
Sylvia Garnsey (Coventry Carol, Once In Royal)
Thomas Lydon (Three Kings)
Poulenc: Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps De Noel
Poulenc’s religious music, while expressing perfectly his profound Catholic faith, was always closely bound up with his relationships with friends and lovers. He had been catapulted back to the church in 1936 by the death in appalling circumstances of the composer Pierre-Octave Ferroud. His great opera Dialogues des Carmelites was deeply affected by the illness and death of his lover Lucien Roubert. These four exquisite miniatures seem to have been written, between November 1951 and May 1952, at least in part as gifts for their dedicatees: indeed they are such private pieces that no proper record exists of their first performance. What may have been their premiere was given, rather incongruously, in Madrid by the Netherlands Chamber Choir. Poulenc dedicated the first of them, a dark, tender setting of "O Magnum Mysterium", to the conductor of that performance, Felix de Nobel. The gentle second motet "Quem Vidistis Pastores" was a tribute to one of Poulenc’s closest woman friends, Simone Girard. She was the secretary of the Avignon Concerts Society and by all accounts an indefatigable organiser and fine amateur pianist. To Poulenc she was indispensable. In a letter of 1951, in which he offers her the "Quem Vidistis", he tells her "You have the ultimate intelligence - quite simply that of the heart, a sentiment surely appropriate to this evocation of the simple shepherds seeing the star over Bethlehem. The set is completed by a setting, marked "Calme et doux", of "Videntes Stellam", and an exultant "Hodie Christus Natus Est" which seems to be made up entirely of fanfares. |
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ID: GMCD7272
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Choir
Recorded: St. Margaret of Scotland Church, St. Louis USA, 23-25 May, 2004
Soloists (in sequence)
Burgon: Amanda Meinen; Elise Ibendahl; Kathleen Mead
Surinach, no. 2: Nathan Ruggles; Mark Poe; Susan Greene
§ WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING ON CD
All pieces scored for SATB choir (with divisi), unless otherwise stated. |
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ID: SIGCD119
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Choir
The first disc to be released in The King’s Singers 40th anniversary year celebrates music by Portuguese, Spanish and Mexican composers from the period known as the Siglo de Oro, The Golden Age.
The idea for the disc came from the King’s Singers church concert programmes, where the acoustics allowed great scope for drama. The music featured is exceptionally beautiful and deeply moving, with a combination of joyful and sorrowful s e ttings, indicating the substantial outpouring of music during this period.
Regularly performing over 100 concerts per season, the King’s Singers delight audiences a round the world. As the London Times states, they are ‘still unmatched for their musicality and sheer ability to entertain’. |
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ID: SIGCD127
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir
Choral music from the sixteenth-century, right up to the late-twentieth-century features on this beautiful eleven-track album, with stunning performances from The Choir of Royal Holloway.
The Chapel Choir was established in 1886 for women’s voices & became a mixed choir in 1965. Forty-three years on and the choir have made 14 CD recordings & have toured most European countries, under the guidance of Rupert Gough, who began his musical training as a chorister at the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace. |
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ID: SIGCD235
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir
* World Premier Recordings
This recording is compiled from Armonico Consort’s ‘Naked Byrd’ programme, featuring music by Tavener, Purcell, Barber and Byrd, composers who wore their hearts on their sleeves, and whose art saw their emotions laid bare, in an atmospheric concert where magical musical moments are intertwined with sublime passages of plainchant and violin improvisation. ‘Naked Byrd Two’ follows on from their December 2009 release (SIGCD180 - ‘Naked Byrd’). |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: SIGCD248
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir
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ID: SIGCD366
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir
Britten:
Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30
A Hymn to the Virgin
Prelude & Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria
Five Flower Songs, Op. 47
Mealor:
Five Songs of Praise and Devotion
Four Madrigals On Rose Texts: A Spotless Rose
Four Madrigals On Rose Texts: Lady, When I Behold The Roses Sprouting
Four Madrigals On Rose Texts: Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal
Four Madrigals On Rose Texts: Upon A Bank
Victoria:
Ecce sacerdos magnus
Anonymous:
Ecce sacerdos magnus
The Rodolfus Choir, Ralph Allwood |
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