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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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Composer: LEFANU, Nicola ((b. 1947)) |
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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: MSVCD92025
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
British music for voice and piano, all written between 1970 and 1998, by the cream of contemporary compsoers
tracks: James MacMillan:
Ballad
The Children
Scots Song Elizabeth Maconchy: Sun Moon and Stars / The Hill / Solitude Clothed with the Star Judith Weir: Bessie Bell and Mary Gray Bonnie James Campbell Lady Isobel and the Elf Knight The Gypsy Laddie The Braes of Yarrow Gabriel Jackson: Liadan Laments Robin Holloway: Olive Tree The Palm Tree Robbers' Den Fig Tree in Leaf Wherever we may Be Peter Maxwell Davies: Farewell to Stromness Yesnaby Ground Nicola LeFanu: But Stars Remaining George Nicholson: Abroad and at Home I passed by his Garden J'ai peur Call (Incident at Weekend Party) |
| 12.00 eur Buy |
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ID: MSVCD92064
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Oboe
This is a disc of music for chamber ensembles and solo performers written by two of Britain's leading women composers, who also happen to be mother and daughter. Sparklingly presented by Okeanos, comprising several leading contemporary music performers.
tracks:
LeFanu:
Lament
A Travelling Spirit
Soliloquy (solo oboe)
Mira Clas Tenebras
Maconchy:
Reflections
Miniature (solo oboe)
Morning, Noon and Night (solo harp)
Okeanos players are: Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano); Sally Bradshaw (mezzo-soprano; Bridget Carey (viola); Neil Heyde (cello); Kate Romano (clarinet); Jinny Shaw (oboes, cor anglais); Lucy Wakeford (harp); John Turner (recorder) |
| 12.00 eur Buy |
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ID: MSVCD92100
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
New French Song has created a whole new repertoire of songs by British composers. The artists commissioned twenty exceptional British composers, some of whom were well established, others of whom were yet to receive the recognition they deserve. The composers were asked to set French literature of their choice from the past two hundred years. The result is a fascinating rainbow work covering all the major literary movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, overlapping into the twenty-first century - Romanticism, Symbolism, Surrealism, Cubism, Modernism and post-Modernism.
tracks: O'Regan: Sainte Harrison: ...issu stellaire.. Todd: Le Pont Mirabeau Cowie: Les Hiboux Chilcott: L'enfant dort Casken: Colloque Sentimental Crane: Tour de France Statistics 1902-2003 Gorb: La Cloche Fêlée Jackson: A la Mémoire de Claude Debussy Finnissy: Salomé Keeling: Artemis Wood: Alicante Burrell: Longtemps ce fut l'été Roe: Pourquoi? LeFanu: Billet à Whistler McGuire: Rêves de la Bonne Heure Bingham: La Jeune Morte Redgate: Mirlitonnades Skempton: Le Pont Mirabeau Fitkin: Les Aliments Blancs |
| 12.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD080
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Following on from a white room, Bright Future features more works from Chamber Music 2000 project, with composers including Michael Finnissy, Joe Cutler, Judith Bingham and Nicola LeFanu. |
| 22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD174
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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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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ID: RES10159
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Christmas Music
Subcollection: Choir
The Choirs of St Catharine's College, Cambridge & Edward Wickham (conductor)
The two resident choirs of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and their director Edward Wickham, join together to record this stunning and evocative selection of contemporary Christmas carols. The college can boast having the first and only college-based Oxbridge girls' choir, and its own beautiful chapel in the very heart of Cambridge, provided the venue for this debut recording of the recently founded St Catharine's Girls' Choir. |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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