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ID: SIGCD008
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Orchestral transcriptions and chamber music by Jean-Baptiste Forqueray (1699-1782), taken from Pičces de viole (Paris 1747) and inspired in part by the Roman God, Jupiter
Charivari Agréable Simfonie:
Susanne Heinrich - Pardessus de Viole
Oliver Webber - Violon
Rachel Stott - Alto
Susanna Pell - Basse de Viole
Gareth Deats - Violoncelle
Lynda Sayce - Théorbe
Kah-Ming Ng - Clavecin |
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ID: SIGDVD001
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Region Code: PAL.Region 0, Plays in all territories
Menu screens: English
Color mode: Colour.Dolby Surround AC-3 Sound; Qualiton Imports LTD.
Screen Format: 16.9
DVD Format: DVD 9
Duration: 118 mins
Subtitles: none
Sound Format: AC3 5.1, PCM stereo
John Falstaff - Ian Jervis, baritone
Alice Ford - Jan Hartley, soprano
Francis Ford QC - Julian Forsyth, baritone
Doctor Caius - Simon Butteriss, tenor
Bardolph - Daniel Gillingwater, tenor
Pistol - Simon Masterton Smith, bass
Mrs Quickly - Marilyn Cutts, contralto
Meg Page - Rosamund Shelley, mezzo-soprano
Nanetta Ford - Katie Lovell, soprano
Fenton - Andy Morton, tenor
Verdi’s timeless masterpiece brought up to date in a hilarious new English version, shot on and around a golf course.
At a golf club near Windsor, “Big John” Falstaff props up the bar at the nineteenth hole, (the member’s bar) which is where he is invariably to be found. He doesn’t actually play golf, because no-one wants to play with him - and anyway he’s probably too plump to make it beyond the first green. However he takes comfort in the fact that his bar bill is about to be settled, and all he has to do to achieve this extraordinary feat is to seduce the lovely Alice Ford, a task that he considers himself eminently qualified to undertake. As the big man blunders from one catastrophe to another and the plot races towards its uproarious conclusion, Tony Britten’s trademark wit and accessibility perfectly compliments Verdi’s glorious comedy.
Falstaff is an operatic commedia lirica in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV. |
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ID: E017
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano
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ID: LIR008
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
This is the Galeazzi Ensemble's 2nd recording on London Independent and follows on from the enormous success, both critically and commercially, of their first recording "The Age of Elegance".
Like their previous CD, this recording presents works by familiar faces - Schubert’s sumptuous string trio and Mozart’s flute quartet, written purely for money - but also introduces us to some less celebrated figures such as Gyrowetz, the young pretender to Mozart’s symphonic genius whose dainty quartet looks very much backwards into the classical era, Dittersdorf, the colourful favourite of the Austrian Empress, who effortlessly explores the nuances of string writing with energy and style, and Hoffmeister, the entrepreneur of the musical world - publisher, agent and banker - whose quartet is full of musical surprises! |
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ID: LIR009
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Brass Collection
Subcollection: Brass
This is Chameleon Brass' first recording on London Independent taking a light look at both classical and modern compositions. |
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ID: LIR003
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: British Composer Series
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
3 -10 Paul Sherman, double bass / Louise Mott, mezzo-soprano
This CD additionally features the voice of Louise Mott in The Sibyl of Cumae, a brilliant young singer who has already sung principal roles with Almeida, Opera Group, ENO, WNO and BBC Proms. Her recordings include Marthe in Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust under Philippe Herreweghe for Harmonia Mundi. The double-bassist Paul Sherman, principal with ECO and Opus 20, also joins the group for this work.
Each work occupies its own highly individual territory. But the works have in common an impulse to embrace wider, non-musical concerns and programmes. For James Wood, Crying Bird, Echoing Star brings together two long-held fascinations, namely birdsong and the star patterns of the constellations. Gordon McPherson writes that his piece is a call to young composers to ask themselves what’s really important to their own writing. Edward Dudley Hughes’s work evokes the semi-mythical Sibyl of Cumae’s possession by the god Apollo and her arduous spirit journeys to the underworld. Rowland Sutherland’s work explores the sounds and colours of distant places as they invigorate the imagination. Finally, Rolf Hind’s The Horse Sacrifice is inspired by a crucial and elaborate part of Vedic (early Hindu) ritual.
The New Music Players was founded by the composer Edward Dudley Hughes and is one of the most engaging of the new independent contemporary classical ensembles. It has made several commercial CDs, worked with leading composers, broadcast many times on BBC Radio 3, appeared at major UK Festivals, toured in Europe and is currently Ensemble-In-Residence at the University of York.
The recording and commissions were supported by a grant from the Foundation for Sport and the Arts. |
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ID: LIR019
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Quartet
Following the success of their two previous CDs on LIR, “The Age of Elegance” and “Views of Vienna”, the Galeazzi Ensemble continue their exploration of the classical flute quartet. J.A.Schmittbauer, about whom little is known, cleverly published his quartet under the name of his more prolific colleague, Haydn, to ensure his better sales. It is teamed on this CD with 2 of Haydn’s own quartets, not originally written for flute, but well-suited to the instrument in the flexible classical tradition, and one of his string trios.
The Galeazzi Ensemble was formed in 1995 in order to explore Classical and Early Romantic chamber music using instruments of the period and, as well as performing works from the standard repertoire, it aims to introduce many neglected works to today’s audiences. The group takes its name from the composer and theorist Francesco Galeazzi (1758-1818). Better known today for his theoretical writings, Galeazzi’s most influential work was a two volumed treatise entitled Elementi teorico-pratici di musica (1791-6). |
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