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Composer: MARSH, Roger ((b. 1949)) |
| His/her life: Roger Marsh (b. 1949) studied with Bernard Rands at the University of York in the early 1970s. He spent two years,1976-78, at the University of California, San Diego, on a Harkness Fellowship. From 1978 to 88 he lectured at the University of Keele, before returning to York where he is currently Professor of Music.
His music has been performed and broadcast widely: Stepping Out, for piano and orchestra, was premiered at the 1990 BBC Proms; the orchestral Espace was premiered at the Huddersfield Festival in 1994, while Canto 1 for string ensemble was premiered there in 1999. Sukeroku (2001) for percussion quartet was composed for Backbeat Percussion, which has toured the piece extensively; it was recorded in Japan along with Atsumari (2004) for o-tsuzumi and percussion quartet).With his wife, singer Anna Myatt, Roger Marsh founded the contemporary music group Black Hair in 1995 and continues to direct the group. In 2006 Black Hair appeared at the SPOR Festival in Aarhus, Denmark, which featured the work of Roger Marsh and included performances of not a soul but ourselves and The Song of Abigail, as well as a full performance of Pierrot Lunaire. Roger Marsh is also known for his abridgements and productions of all the novels of James Joyce for Naxos Audiobooks, including Joyce’s Ulysses (unabridged on 22 discs) in 2004. |
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ID: NMCD127 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble Roger Marsh, long fascinated by the poems which Schoenberg set for his Pierrot Lunaire, has completed a setting of Albert Giraud’s brilliant and allusive original texts, ignored by Schoenberg commentators over the years.
Marsh’s settings use both the original French and a new English translation specially commissioned from Kay Bourlier - sometimes simultaneously - and feature solo voice, choirs, a human beatbox and a narrator in the role of the poet himself. This recording, supervised by the composer, features The Hilliard Ensemble and Red Byrd, together with vocal trio Juice, the Ebor Singers and vocalist Linda Hirst, whose work has ranged from early music with John Eliot Gardiner to contemporary performance with Electric Phoenix. |
28.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD174 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Horn 1 - 2 Goldberg Ensemble - Malcolm Layfield, conductor
3 - 8 Richard Watkins, horn / Goldberg Ensemble - Malcolm Layfield, conductor
Richard Watkins is at the forefront of promoting contemporary music for the horn. He has given premières of concertos by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Nigel Osborne, Magnus Lindberg, Dominic Muldowney, Nicola LeFanu, and Colin and David Matthews.
The Goldberg Ensemble is committed to performing and commissioning new music, particularly by British composers.
This new recording features a collection of works for string ensemble commissioned by the Goldberg Ensemble including Roger Marsh's haunting Canto 1, based on Dante's Paradiso; Nicola Lefanu's lyrical Amores for horn and string ensemble; Anthony Gilbert's Palace of the Winds inspired by the elaborately ornate Hawa Mahal palace in Jaipur and Geoffrey Poole's Crossing Ohashi Bridge, an abstract work inspired by chaos mathematics such as Fractals, Mandelbrot sets, and named after the Hiroshige painting Sudden shower over Shin-Ôhashi bridge, as featured on the front cover of this disc. |
22.00 eur Buy |
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