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ID: NMCD009 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra Antony Pay, London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen - Harrison Birtwistle: Ritual Fragment
This disc couples two major works composed in the 1970s, Melencolia I and Meridian, a setting of love poetry, with Ritual Fragment, written in 1989. The works display Birtwistle's distinctive and forceful voice and range in mood from austere introspective journeying to moments of unbearable intensity. |
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ID: NMCD023 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Piano Two vital orchestral works by this key figure of the celebrated 'Manchester School' of post-war British composers and one of the most influential teachers of composition. |
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ID: NMCD031 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Subcollection: Orchestra Three recordings from 1941, publicly available for the first time following transfer from the original 78rpm discs and lengthy subsequent treatment: the centrepiece is an off-air recording of the American premiere of Les Illuminations with Peter Pears.
1. BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Oliver Knussen, conductor/ Stefan Asbury, assistant conductor
2. London Sinfonietta/ Oliver Knussen, conductor
3. William Howard, piano - Anthony Powers
4. Composers Ensemble/ Diego Masson, conductor
5. Alexander Baillie, cello/ Andrew Ball, piano
6. Mary Wiegold, soprano/ Composers Ensemble/ Dominic Muldowney, cond
7. Mstislav Rostropovich, cello/ London Symphony Orchestra/ Hugh Wolff, conductor
8. BBC Singers/ John Poole, conductor
9. Jane's Minstrels/ Roger Montgomery, conductor
10. Nua Nos/ Noriko Kawai, piano/ Dairine Ni Mheadhra, conductor
11. Jane Manning, soprano/ Jane's Minstrels/ Roger Montgomery, conductor
12. London Sinfonietta | Peter Serkin, cello | Oliver Knussen, conductor
13. Sounds Positive/ David Sutton-Anderson, conductor
14. Martin Robertson, saxophone/ Christopher van Kampen, cello/ The Nash Ensemble/ Oliver Knussen, conductor
15. BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Andrew Davis, conductor
16. Peter Pears, tenor/ CBS Symphony Orchestra/ Benjamin Britten, conductor |
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ID: NMCD078 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Chamber Orchestra New works by 10 young composers recorded live at State of the Nation 2001
The Guardian Classical CD of the Week, April 2002 |
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ID: NMCD095 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra Goehr's neo-classical works - Bach tribute ...a musical offering (JSB 1985)... and Sinfonia - plus the dazzling coloratura aria Behold the Sun, the Romanza for cello and orchestra, and the vivid variation-set Metamorphosis/Dance.
Originally released on Unicorn-Kanchana in 1981.
Reissued with funding from Arts Council England. |
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ID: NMCD101 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Cello Collection Subcollection: Cello and Symphony Orchestra This 2-disc Ancora reissue brings together Alexander Baillie's impassioned recording of Matthews' Cello Concerto No.1, the expnsive Landscape, and four works commissioned by the LSO - including the riotous Machines & Dreams, an updated 'toy symphony' which includes bird calls, football rattles and video-game sound effects.
Recordings originally released on Collins Classics and Unicorn-Kanchana.
Reissued with funding from Arts Council England. |
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ID: NMCD126 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: String instruments This Ancora reissue features Simon Bainbridge's Viola Concerto - commissioned by soloist Walter Trampler; the Fantasia for Double Orchestra, scored for two identical “mirror-image” orchestras placed to the left and right of the stage; and the energetic Concertante in Moto Perpetuo for ten players, featuring oboist Nicholas Daniel.
Originally released on Continuum Records in 1992. Reissued with funding from Arts Council England.
1- BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Simon Bainbridge, conductor
2, 3 - Walter Trampler, viola/ London Sinfonietta/ Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
4 -Composers Ensemble/ Simon Bainbridge, conductor |
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ID: NMCD138 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Opera Collection Subcollection: Opera Scenario snd Libretto by Stephen Pruslin
An Ancora reissue of the acclaimed recording by the London Sinfonietta under David Atherton, with soloists including Phyllis Bryn-Julson, David Wilson-Johnson and John Tomlinson. |
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ID: NMCD148 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Subcollection: Orchestra Classic recording from the London Sinfonietta, previously released on Etcetera. (NMC makes another deleted disc permenently available.)
Secret Theatre explores Birtwistle’s fascination with ritual and takes its title from a Robert Graves poem.
Silbury Air is stark, menacing, and tense and named after the prehistoric mound Silbury Hill in England. |
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