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ID: NMCD167
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble
Jake Gardner, baritone
Gayle Hunnicutt, narrator
London Sinfonietta
Thea Musgrave, conductor
Red Byrd
Fretwork
Scottish Ensemble
Rich, powerful musical language and a strong sense of drama have made Thea Musgrave one of the most respected and exciting of living composers. Born in Edinburgh in 1928, she studied at the University of Edinburgh then in Paris, where she spent four years as a pupil of Nadia Boulanger, before establishing herself in London with her orchestral, choral, operatic and chamber works. She has lived in the US since 1970.
Musgrave’s ‘opera for radio’ sets a dreamlike tale of the American Civil War based on An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, a short story written in the late 19th century by Ambrose Bierce.
Thea Musgrave says .... These three works, though all very different and written decades apart, nevertheless share a common subject: conflict. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1981), a heart-breaking story from the American Civil war; Wild Winter I (1993), a setting of poems from many different countries and in several different languages about the inevitable losses and cruelties of war; and Green (2007), an abstract conflict of a life-giving force against its suffocating nemesis. |
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ID: NMCD175
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Symphony
Two of Knussen's major works of the 1970s - Symphony No.2, a song cycle on texts of Georg Trakl and Sylvia Plath, and Symphony No. 3, a symphonic poem about Shakespeare's Ophelia - are coupled with Coursing, Ophelia Dances and other works.
This release on the NMC mid-price re-issue label Ancora was previously issued on Unicorn-Kanchana Records.
Composer/conductor Oliver Knussen celebrates his 60th birthday this year.
Knussen's Ophelia Dances will be performed by BCMG at his 60th birthday concert held at the CBSO Centre (Birmingham, UK)
A new release on NMC of works by Knussen is released this autumn, featuring BCMG, Ryan Wigglesworth and soprano Claire Booth.
Knussen started composing at the age of 6 and aged 15 he stepped in to conduct his symphony's première at the Royal Festival Hall, London in 1968 after István Kertész fell ill. After that debut, Daniel Barenboim asked him to conduct the work's first two movements in New York a week later.
This is a substantial sampler of Oliver Knussen's output in the 1970s. The two major works are the luminous Second Symphony, which takes the form of a 17-minute song cycle to texts of Georg Trakl and Sylvia Plath and Symphony No. 3, a symphonic poem about Shakespeare's Ophelia. |
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ID: NMCD177
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano
Hideki Nagano, London Sinfonietta, David Atherton, Gareth Hulse, Paul Archibald, Tim Gill, Sound Intermedia
Jonathan Harvey won a Gramophone Award in 2008 for his NMC CD Body Mandala. The works, commissioned by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, explore his fascination with Eastern philosophies.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrates the life and work of Jonathan Harvey in two days of concerts, films and talks at the Barbican, London. Total Immersion runs from the 28-29 January 2012.
Harvey’s Bhakti was the first release on NMC in 1989.
Jonathan was invited by Pierre Boulez to work at IRCAM in the early 1980s.
Bird Concerto - Harvey's hommage to Messiaen - is a celebration of the kind of technical advances in electroacoustics which the creator of Oiseaux exotiques and the Catalogue d’oiseaux was never able to explore. Harvey started writing the piece when he was in California and says that ‘indigo bunting, orchard oriole, golden crowned sparrow ... are some of the forty colourful Californian birds whose songs and cries sparked the ignition of this work’. The bird sounds have been innovatively transformed to create a mesmeric dialogue between nature and art. Harvey sets the piano soloist (the work was commissioned by pianist Joanna MacGregor) the challenge of combining piano playing and triggering a sampler/ synthesizer so that the live electronics can be realised in real-time performance. Other works on this disc are Other Presences, for trumpet and multi-loop effects, and two versions of the canonic Ricercare una melodia (1984) originally written for trumpet and quadraphonic tape-delay system, but here performed on oboe and cello, with live electronics from Sound Intermedia. |
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ID: NMCD211
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Choir and Orchestra
Live recordings
Andrew Watts countertenor (Angel)
Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts tenor (Jacob)
BBC Singers
London Sinfonietta
David Atherton conductor |
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ID: SIGCD273
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Louis Andriessen
London Sinfonietta
David Atherton, conductor
Cristina Zavalloni, soprano
Synergy Vocals
ANAÏS NIN (2009-10)
1. Artaud
2. Allendy
3. I await my father
4. Father story
5. The seduction
6. Strange days
7. The seventh day
8. Henry was tired
9. Basque song
DE STAAT (1972-76)
10. Beginning
11. Choir 1
12. Choir 2
13. Choir 3 |
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ID: SIGCD277
CDs: 1
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Subcollection: Piano
DVD Extra: Thomas Adès and Tal Rosner in conversation
The London Sinfonietta combine two works from Thomas Adès, one of the most distinctive and popular voices in modern composition. Both works feature accompanying films (by Tal Rosner and Sophie Clements) that are included in this CD/DVD set. This is the second CD for the London Sinfonietta with Signum. It follows their October release of music by Louis Andriessen, featuring the UK premiere of Anaïs Nin, alongside his famed work De Staat.
In Seven Days is a musical interpretation for piano and orchestra of the biblical ‘creation’ by Thomas Adès, composed in collaboration with a film-piece by the artist and filmmaker Tal Rosner. Both music and film evoke the processes of the creation rather than the objects described in the movement titles, using simple elements in repeated and evolving contexts in a perpetual state of flux, change and growth.
The Piano Studies Nos 6 & 7 are arrangements of player-piano works by the American composer Conlon Nancarrow. An influential figure to generations of composers, Nancarrow’s studies for the player-piano (or pianola) allowed him to generate music of extreme rhythmic complexity in a multitude of inventive ways. These arrangements for two pianos by Thomas Adès capture the strange magic of the originals, where fragmented musical ideas are played off against each other in a wild, almost jazz-like way. The works are accompanied by film-visualisations by Tal Rosner and Sophie Clements. |
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ID: SINFCD1-2004
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: World Premiere Recording
Subcollection: Orchestra
Thirteen tribute pieces written for Oliver Knussen, featuring works by Anderson, Andriessen, Benjamin, Carter, Glanert, Goehr, Henze, Lindberg, Matthews, Thomas, Turnage, Wuorinen and Zuidam. ;Live recording of world premiere performances in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on 12 June 2002. |
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ID: SINFCD1-2006
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: World Music
Subcollection: Orchestra
Live concert recordings recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.
The first in a new series of CDs focussing on music by young composers living and working in the UK
Tansy Davies' energetic 'neon' and Stuart MacRae's jazzy trumpet showpiece, 'interact' feature on the first of the London Sinfonietta's Jerwood Foundation-sponsored showcase for young composers. |
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ID: SINFCD2-2006
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: World Music
Subcollection: Orchestra
Three ensemble works featuring solo instruments |
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