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BLENDIS, Simon - Interprets

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From Morning To Midnight

From Morning To Midnight
ID: NMCD116
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Violin

The first full-length disc from highly-acclaimed young composer David Sawer, featuring scintillating orchestral score the greatest happiness principle, ensemble works Tiroirs and The Memory of Water, and a specially-arranged orchestral suite taken from Sawer’s opera From Morning to Midnight, heard here for the first time. The disc features the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conducted by Martyn Brabbins and Susanna Malkki.
6 - Alexandra Wood, Simon Blendis, solo violins
22.00 eur Buy

Wanderer Fantasy - Joeseph James "Wanderer Fantasy" after Schubert "Fantasie" after Schumann

Wanderer Fantasy - Joeseph James "Wanderer Fantasy" after Schubert "Fantasie" after Schumann
ID: SIGCD095
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble

Schubert's 'Wanderer Fantasy' and Schumann's 'Fantasie' are two highly remarkable works: whilst musically embodying the romantic spirit of the age in their unconventional structures and lyrically imaginative styles, they also act as self-portraits to their creators through the evocation of the creative process.
In these new orchestrations by Joeseph James, the familiar beauty of the works is rekindled in the exciting and fresh interpretations performed by the illustrious English Chamber Orchestra alongside concertante solos from members of the Schubert Ensemble. The performances are directed by the exceptional young conductor, Orlando Jopling.
Featured instrumentalists from the Schubert Ensemble include Simon Blendis (violin), Jane Salmon (cello), Peter Buckoke and Stephen Williams (double basses).
18.00 eur Buy

Martin Butler: American Rounds

Martin Butler: American Rounds
ID: NMCD120
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble

William Howard and the Schubert Ensemble in Martin Butler's piano quintet 'American Rounds', and other chamber music, plus Funerailles - Butler's major new work for solo piano - and arrangements of two Scarlatti sonatas.

1 - 5, 9-11 - The Schubert Ensemble
6 - Simon Blendis, violin/ William Howard, piano
7, 8 - William Howard, piano
12 - Douglas Paterson, viola
22.00 eur Buy

F. Schubert - The Schubert Ensemble - „The Trout“, Piano Quintet; Piano Trio No 1 in B Flat

F. Schubert - The Schubert Ensemble - „The Trout“, Piano Quintet; Piano Trio No 1 in B Flat
ID: CHRCD007
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano

The Schubert Ensemble has established itself over 24 years as one of the world's leading exponents of music for piano and strings. Familiar to audiences from Los Angeles to Tokyo, the Ensemble has been hailed for its dedication and commitment to both traditional and contemporary repertoire. It has recorded over 20 critically acclaimed CDs and has over 80 new commissions to its name. Its 25th Anniversary season in 2007- 8 will see tours to South Africa, Canada and the USA, as well as appearances at many of Europe's leading venues. In 1998 the group was awarded the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Award for best chamber group.
15.00 eur Buy

Cesar Franck - Piano Quintet and Violin Sonata - The Schubert Ensemble

Cesar Franck - Piano Quintet and Violin Sonata - The Schubert Ensemble
ID: CHRCD004
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble

This disc from the renowned Schubert Ensemble bring the spirit of the Paris “Belle Epoque” alive. Newly re-mastered recordings of Franck’s Piano Quintet in F minor and his Sonata for violin & piano in A are performed with enthusiasm by the experienced Schuberts.

Franck was known as a man “enamoured of gentleness and consolation”, but these works tell a different story of an earthier man, less chaste, freed of starch and wing collar. Central to the quintet in particular was a woman; not Franck’s dutiful wife, but a young student, Augusta Holmes “decorously rampant” and “possessed of bold beautiful features, abundant golden hair, and handsome breasts of which she was justifiably proud”. Rimsky-Korsakov admired her, but in Paris, Saint-Saens and Franck fought over her. Franck’s wife would have known that the emotions so readily expressed in this Quintet were not for her, but for Augusta, Franck’s “impure and seductive” organ student.
15.00 eur Buy

Judith Weir - Piano Concerto/ Distance & Enchantment

Judith Weir - Piano Concerto/ Distance & Enchantment
ID: NMCD090
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Subcollection: Piano

Judith Weir's own choice of her chamber music featuring piano explore Weir's fascination with folk music: the sparkling Piano Concerto explores her Scottish roots.
Disc 1 was recorded for NMC in 2002; Disc 2 was originally released on Collins Classics.
Reissued with funding from Arts Council England.
28.00 eur Buy

An English Renaissance - George Caird,oboe and friends

An English Renaissance - George Caird,oboe and friends
ID: CC2009
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Oboe

George Caird (oboe) with
Simon Blendis (violin), Louise Williams (viola), Jane Salmon (cello), Alison Dods (violin 2 in Maconchy, Gow), David Adams (violin 2 in Bliss)


The CD booklet contains a 2,500-word article by George Caird on the music in English, French and German.
There are more photos of the performers and the recording session.


This recording brings together five remarkable works for oboe and strings written between 1926 and 1946 and representing an English renaissance for the oboe as a chamber music instrument. It is a period which is musically very rich and diverse, with English composers showing new influences from Europe and America. The range and expression across these works is striking and is a tribute to the artistry of the oboist Léon Goossens, who is the dedicatee of three of the works and who taught the dedicatees of certainly one and possibly both of the other two. He was also the player behind two other important works by Bax and Finzi. These magnificent seven works, it can be argued, established a repertoire for oboe quartets and quintets and did much to promote the oboe as a chamber music instrument.

Goossens’ exquisite playing was characterised by a distinctive and sensitive sound, beautiful phrasing, a wide dynamic and tonal range and great rhythmic vitality. His collaboration with Sir Arnold Bax produced the first significant work for oboe and strings, the Quintet written in 1922 and recorded by Goossens with the International Quartet in 1924 (featured on Oboe Classics CC2005). Bax’s music, with its pastoral and elegiac qualities together with a strong Irish influence leant itself superbly to Goossens’ playing and this work must surely be partly responsible for the works on this recording. copyright George Caird 2004
21.00 eur Buy

 
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