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Composer: BERKELEY, Lennox ((1903-1989)) |
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ID: CC2011
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Oboe
Janet Craxton (1929-81) founded the London Oboe Quartet with Perry Hart (violin), Brian Hawkins (viola) and Kenneth Heath (cello) in 1968, and later with Charles Tunnell (cello) after Kenneth Heath's death in 1977. During the twelve years of its existence the Quartet played at most of the major UK music festivals and made frequent BBC broadcasts, from which these recordings are taken. Janet Craxton was always a champion of new music, and the Quartet commissioned five of the six works on this CD, as well as music by Neil Sanders, Alan Rawsthorne, Oliver Knussen, John Exton and John McCabe.
A previous Oboe Classics CD, An English Renaissance, celebrated Leon Goossens with a number of works inspired by his oboe playing. In the notes for that CD George Caird commented that in the generation following Goossens „the oboe playing of Janet Craxton should be singled out as the torch-bearer for music for oboe and strings. But that, and the composers who wrote for her, is another story.“ |
| 21.00 eur Buy |
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ID: GMCD7226
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Choral and Organ
Christopher Eastwood plays the organ for In The Bleak Midwinter, and conducts The Three Kings.
Mark Williams (A Spotless Rose)
Rebecca Willcox (In The Bleak Midwinter)
William Tallon (In The Bleak Midwinter)
Sylvia Garnsey (Coventry Carol, Once In Royal)
Thomas Lydon (Three Kings)
Poulenc: Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps De Noel
Poulenc’s religious music, while expressing perfectly his profound Catholic faith, was always closely bound up with his relationships with friends and lovers. He had been catapulted back to the church in 1936 by the death in appalling circumstances of the composer Pierre-Octave Ferroud. His great opera Dialogues des Carmelites was deeply affected by the illness and death of his lover Lucien Roubert. These four exquisite miniatures seem to have been written, between November 1951 and May 1952, at least in part as gifts for their dedicatees: indeed they are such private pieces that no proper record exists of their first performance. What may have been their premiere was given, rather incongruously, in Madrid by the Netherlands Chamber Choir. Poulenc dedicated the first of them, a dark, tender setting of "O Magnum Mysterium", to the conductor of that performance, Felix de Nobel. The gentle second motet "Quem Vidistis Pastores" was a tribute to one of Poulenc’s closest woman friends, Simone Girard. She was the secretary of the Avignon Concerts Society and by all accounts an indefatigable organiser and fine amateur pianist. To Poulenc she was indispensable. In a letter of 1951, in which he offers her the "Quem Vidistis", he tells her "You have the ultimate intelligence - quite simply that of the heart, a sentiment surely appropriate to this evocation of the simple shepherds seeing the star over Bethlehem. The set is completed by a setting, marked "Calme et doux", of "Videntes Stellam", and an exultant "Hodie Christus Natus Est" which seems to be made up entirely of fanfares. |
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ID: NMCD062
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
3 sets of variations - two previously unrecorded - with contributions from 19 British composers ranging from William Walton to Judith Weir |
| 22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: RES10149
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Ensemble
Berkeley Ensemble
Following their acclaimed debut recording (Clarion Call - RES10127), the Berkeley Ensemble returns with a programme of chamber works by the British composer Lennox Berkeley, one of the two composers (father and son) after whom the group gets its name.
Featuring a number of world premiere recordings, the ensemble presents a selection of works that covers most of Berkeley’s creative life from the early Francophile clarinet Sonatine written in Paris while a student of Nadia Boulanger to the inventive Introduction and Allegro for double bass and piano. Also featured are the Three solo pieces for viola and the large scale String Trio Op. 19 and Sextet, Op. 47 for clarinet, horn and string quartet, and the emotive miniature In Memoriam Igor Stravinsky. |
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ID: SIGCD115
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Hear my words ye people by Hubert Parry, a former chorister at Eton College is the first track on the album featuring some of the bestloved anthems in the church repertoire, beautifully performed by the Eton College Chapel Choir.
The choir, formed in the 14th-Century has changed a great deal since the choir school was succeeded by a music scholarship system, designed to facilitate talented choristers with their education. Although life has changed at Eton, the music passed down over five hundred years still possesses a power to stir. |
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ID: SIGCD446
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Choir
The Choir of Jesus College Cambridge’s new release on Signum blends a selection of ancient and modern works from the 16th and 20th Centuries, all centred on the theme of evening
Tracks
1. God be in my head Philip Radcliffe 1.29
2. Save us, O Lord Edward Bairstow 4.56
3. In manus tuas John Sheppard 4.02
4. Song at Evening Richard Rodney Bennet 3.25
5. Miserere mihi Domine William Byrd 2.49
6. Creator of the stars of night Gabriel Jackson 3.52
7. The Lord is my Shepherd Lennox Berkeley 4.43
8. Christe qui lux es et dies IV Robert Whyte 6.03
9. Evening Hymn Henry Balfour Gardiner 6.24
10. Behold thou hast made my days Orlando Gibbons 5.30
11. Evening Watch Gustav Holst 4.39
12. The Lord's Prayer John Tavener 3.08
13. Bring us O Lord God William Harris 4.09
14. In Pace John Blitheman 4.14
15. Evening Prayers Philip Moore 6.03
16. Miserere nostri Thomas Tallis 3..22
17. Blessed city, heav'nly Salem Edward Bairstow 9.10 |
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