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ID: SIGCD087 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Much loved mezzo-soprano, Susan Bickley, and fast-rising stars Ailish Tynan and Andrew Kennedy perform songs written by one of Britain's leading composers, Judith Weir.
With works ranging from minature to epic, these songs showcase the originality and talent of one of music's great storytellers. Superbly accompanied by Iain Burnside, these strong performances masterfully bring together Weir's diverse range of literary and musical influences from many international sources, including China, Africa and Serbia as well as her native Scotland. |
18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD105 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble Gilbert's entrancing violin concerto, On Beholding a Rainbow, is performed by rising stars Anthony Marwood (violin) and Garry Walker (conductor) with the RNCM Symphony Orchestra, and coupled with Unrise and ...Into the gyre of a madder dance - two new works written for the wind ensemble of the Royal Northern College of Music, where Gilbert was for many years Head of Composition. The disc is completed by the haunting song-cycle Certain Lights Reflecting, which sets evocative texts by Tasmanian poet Sarah Day; it is heard here in a live recording by mezzo-soprano Susan Bickley, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis. |
22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD058 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
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. |
22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD059 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
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. |
22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD069 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
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. |
22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD152 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble This collection of premiere recordings from David Matthews features Terrible Beauty, for mezzo-soprano and seven players, setting both Homer and Shakespeare in a dramatic depiction of Cleopatra; Winter Passions - which sets Pushkin's poems of love and absence - and Marina, a setting of TS Eliot's brooding monologue - both feature baritone Stephan Loges. The disc is completed with the Clarinet Quartet and two String Trios. |
22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: DCD34117 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Vocal and Piano Ailish Tynan soprano
Susan Bickley mezzo-soprano
William Dazeley baritone
Iain Burnside piano
Recorded in the music room of Parry’s boyhood home- Highnam Court in Gloucestershire - this disc sees three of our finest singers shed an illuminating light on an area of the repertoire that has rarely graced the concert hall in recent times. As English song came into full flower at the turn of the twentieth century, Parry's substantial contribution to the genre became somewhat buried. Iain Burnside and his singers rediscover what has been forgotten by historical accident, and what a treasure chest of song they have found! Combining an innately English sensibility with a technical fastidiousness that owes much to the lieder of Brahms, Schumann and Wolf, every one of these songs demonstrates Parry’s fundamental concern for sincerity and proper declamation of the words. Still best known for two short choral works, Hubert Parry is at last undergoing something of a revival, and these beautifully articulated performances return his songs to the heart of his output, where the composer always felt they belonged.
Track listing
1 Good-night
2 To Lucasta on Going to the Wars
3 Sleep
4 Where shall the Lover Rest
5 What Part of Dread Eternity
6 Julia
7 From a City Window
8 My Heart is like a Singing Bird
9 Looking Backward
10 Proud Maisie
11 The Faithful Lover
12 Bright Star
13 Crabbed Age and Youth
14 Nightfall in Winter
15 Grapes
16 O Never Say that I was False of Heart
17 Dirge in Woods
18 A Girl to her Glass
19 There
20 O Mistress mine
21 Whence
22 Willow, Willow, Willow
23 And Yet I Love Her till I Die
24 Lay a Garland on my Hearse
25 Armida’s Garden
26 If Thou would’st Ease thine Heart
27 A Welsh Lullaby
Total playing time [69:06] |
15.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD235 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Elias, B:
Geranos
Psappha, Nicholas Kok
Meet me in the Green Glen
Roderick Williams (baritone) & Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
Once did I breathe another's breath
Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Electra Mourns
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) & Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais)
Britten Sinfonia, Clark Rundell |
22.00 eur Buy |
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