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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: MSVCD92031
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
One of the most orginal of contemporary British composers, Fox wrote all these pieces in response to the work of other artists, whether as a result of inspiration or by meeting and working with them. You, us, me itself, for example, is based on the Habañera from Bizet's "Carmen". The disc includes songs, and pieces for piano solo and piano with tape, and shows the wide variety of Fox's styles including (as on the sample track) jazz.
tracks:
A-N-N-A Blossom Time (wds. Kurt Schwitters)
(9 songs)
You, Us, Me
Louisiana (11 songs)
MERZsonata
Second Eight
Block
Cylinders Barn, 1947
I Sing for the Muses and Myself |
| 12.00 eur Buy |
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ID: MSVCD92022
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Christopher Fox, according to pianist Ian Pace, is one of the few British composers to have managed to move beyond the problems and questions posed by modernism; certainly his is a voice most distinctive, interesting and entertaining.. no more so than on this fine record.
tracks: More Light Paired Off Prime Site Complementary Forms More things in the air than are visible |
| 12.00 eur Buy |
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ID: MSVCD92027
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Amongst modern British composers, the name of Michael Finnissy is particularly eminent; his music can be uncompromising but is always fresh and inventive, as shown in his staggering sets of transcriptions of Verdi arias. Here Ian Pace also presents Finnissy's Fourth and Sixth Piano Concertos, confusingly written for solo piano. A tour de force of composition and performance, this CD was long out of print and has been re-released at mid-price by popular demand. One of the Metier Finnissy series, and a seminal recording in contemporary piano music.
tracks:
Michael Finnissy Verdi Transcriptions, Book I (9 tracks) Verdi Transcriptions, Book II (9 tracks) Piano Concerto no. 4 Piano Concerto no. 6 Snowdrift To & Fro |
| 15.00 eur Buy |
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ID: MSVCD92030
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Leading composer Michael Finnissy started by improvising Gershwin songs as recital encores - then developed them into formal pieces in order to explore an era in which jazz and modernism both evolved in response to social change...... he wrote two groups of arrangements, both here in their only complete recording.
tracks: How long has this been going on? Things are looking up A foggy day in London Town Love is here to stay They can't take that away from me Shall we dance? They're writing songs of love but not for me Fidgety Feet Embraceable You Waiting for the sun to come out Innocent ingenue baby Blah, blah, blah Boy wanted Love is here to stay (original version) Limehouse Nights Wait a bit, Susie I'd rather Charleston Isn't it wonderful Nobody but you Swanee Dixie Rose Someone belives in you Nashville Nightingale |
| 12.00 eur Buy |
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ID: MSVCD92044
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano
Emsley's music relates to time... and timelessness. To Kantian philosophy... to conceptual thought... to noumenal reality. In simpler terms, music itself can transcend time, being the universal language of Pythagoras and modern science - the Divine Art. Played by Topologies, one of the UK's foremost contemporary music ensembles, and featuring Ian Pace on solo piano tracks.
tracks: Helter-Skelter Flow Form (Ian Pace, solo piano) for piano 3 (Ian Pace, solo piano) ..from swerve of shore to bend of bay finnissys fifty (Ian Pace, solo piano) for guitar 1 (Alan Thomas, guitar) for piano 2 (Ian Pace, solo piano) The Juniper Tree (with Clare Lesser, soprano)
Topologies, a contemporary chamber music group founded by pianist Ian Pace, is at the leading edge of the modern music scene in Great Britain and appears on a number of Metier CDs.
The personnel varies with the music being recorded, and includes:
Guy Cowley (clarinet), Christopher Redgate (oboe), Ian Pace (piano), Nancy Ruffer (flutes), Julian Warburton (percussion), Andrew McNeill (saxophone), Philip Gibbon (bassoon), Darragh Morgan and Chris George (violins), Bridget Carey (viola), Betsy Taylor (cello), Alan Thomas (guitar) and Mikel Toms (conductor) |
| 12.00 eur Buy |
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ID: MSVCD92055
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Quartet
Maxwell Davies is one of the most prominent and revered names in contemporary music. On this CD we present chamber music written between 1952 and 1987 performed by the Kreutzer Quartet and renowned soloists.
tracks:
Quartet Movement (1952)
Five Pieces for Piano, op. 2 (1955-56)
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1956-57)
String Quartet (1961)
Hymnos (1967)
The Seven Brightnesses (1975)
Little Quartet no. 1 (1980)
Little Quartet no. 2 (1977, rev. 1987)
The Kreutzer Quartet includes:
Peter Sheppard Skærved (Violin)
Mihailo Trandafilovski and previously Gordon MacKay (Violin)
Morgan Goff and previously Bridget Carey (Viola)
Neil Heyde (Cello) |
| 12.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD065
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Glittering piano quintet A Yardstick to the Stars explores the notions of time, distance and planetary motion; it is coupled with song-cycle Eloge, Fantazia for string quartet, and Chacony, a virtuosic set of variations for piano left hand. |
| 22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD066
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Acclaimed pianist Ian Pace is heard on this disc in an unapologetically avant-garde programme featuring Brian Ferneyhough's gnomic Lemma-Icon-Epigram and Richard Barrett's dense and complex Tract.
The Wire 2001 Records of the Year "Awesome performances"The Wire 2002 |
| 22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD069
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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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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