|
|
World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
|
|
|
|
|
ID: GCCD4028
CDs: 1
Type: CD
|
Collection: Choral Collection
David Hill incl. popular transcriptions
Great Cathedral and Abbey Choirs
75 mins of superb sound as only great organists like David Hill can achieve on the famous Henry Willis organ of Winchester Cathedral. Both French and German romantics are featured, as well as more modern English pieces, some Bach, and a popular transcription of the great tune “Finlandia”. Winchester is one of the most visited Cathedrals in the UK, and its records sell right across the country. |
| 15.00 eur Buy |
|
ID: QTZ2018
CDs: 1
Type: CD
|
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
World Premiere recording of Richard Blackford's acclaimed new secular oratorio based on songs, poems and recordings from countries around the world where issues of exile and freedom are dominant themes. |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
|
ID: SIGCD144
CDs: 1
Type: CD
|
Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir
The BBC Singers, led by David Hill, are the UK's only full-time professional chamber choir, and their repertoire and virtuosic versatility are almost boundless. The BBC Singers regularly work with the BBC's own orchestras as well as a number of period instrument and contemporary ensembles both in concert and in the recording studio.
This disc features the compositional talent of one of the BBC Singer's former members, Judith Bingham. Bingham is considered a talented all-round composer, having written for a variety of different ensembles including symphonic wind ensembles, brass bands and solo instrumentalists, Despite this she is best known for her choral work, in which she has been commissioned by such ensembles as The King's Singers, the BBC Symphony Chorus and King's College Choir, Cambridge, She has won numerous awards including the Barlow Prize for a cappela music and three British Composer awards.
Remoter Worlds
Judith Bingham |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
|
ID: SIGCD381
CDs: 1
Type: CD
|
Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir
Jackson, Gabriel:
The Voice of the Bard
Ruchill Linn
Airplane Cantata
Winter Heavens
Choral Symphony
Rex Lawson (pianola)
BBC Singers - David Hill and James Morgan, conductors
Gabriel Jackson was Associate Composer with the BBC Singers from 2010 to 2013 and this disc collects the very best of this unique collaboration between composer and professional choral ensemble. The central work 'Airplane Cantata', premiered by the Singers in 2011, is an evocative tribute to the pioneers of flight and aircraft design, combining texts from early newsreels and pilots' journals, and featuring renowned pianola player Rex Lawson.
It is one of the first full length pieces written especially for the pianola since the 1930s. Gabriel states that in writing this piece he satisfied his obsession with aviation: “…the technology, the bravery and daring of pilots, the aesthetic beauty of aircraft, the transcendence of flying - and when thinking about what a piece for voices and pianola might be about, I was very struck by the fact that the (brief) heyday of the pianola coincided with the pioneering years of aviation.” The variety of texts used includes eye-witness accounts by Louis Blériot and the musings of Amelia Earhart. The seven-movement work makes full use of the amazing keyboard dexterity possible with the pianola’s virtuosic resources and contains the instrumental Toccata Aeronautica, a staggering showpiece movement for pianola alone, giving full opportunity to show what it can achieve, but which a pianist, restricted to ten fingers, could not. World-renowned pianolist, Rex Lawson, prepared the piano rolls making use of a computer programme which translates staff notation into a machine to punch the rolls, which he devised himself. Rex is a leading exponent of the pianola and works tirelessly to promote this once hugely-popular, but now rather misunderstood instrument. Gabriel Jackson won his third British Composer Award for 'Airplane Cantata' in 2012; his Choral Symphony, also included here, was shortlisted in 2013. This disc follows in Signum's popular series of recordings showcasing the work of the BBC singers and their associate composers. Previous discs include works by Judith Bingham and Edward Cowie. |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
|
ID: SIGCD421
CDs: 1
Type: CD
|
Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir
The BBC Singers continue their critically lauded and award- nominated series of composer-led recordings with a new disc of works by Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir.
Recorded in the unique acoustic of the Temple Church, London, the BBC Singers are joined by the church’s choristers and the contemporary music ensemble Endymion, in a retrospective of Weir’s works drawn from a 25-year period.
Endymion (vocal ensemble) |
| 18.00 eur Temporarily out of stock |
|
ID: SIGCD422
CDs: 2
Type: CD
|
Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir
The three works on this 2CD set further confirm Chilcott’s status as one of the world’s most popular active choral composers. The Angry Planet was a commission inspired by conductor David Hill for the BBC Proms in 2012, and combines the precision and skill of the BBC Singers and The Bach Choir with the exuberance of a host of young persons and Children’s choirs including The Young Singers, London Youth Choir and Finchley Children’s Music Group. |
| 26.00 eur Temporarily out of stock |
|
|
