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ID: MSVCD92031
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: 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 |
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ID: MSVCD92036
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionFine songs by British composers, with a slightly unusual instrumentation rather than the usual piano! Full texts included.
tracks:
KENNETH LEIGHTON:
Animal Heaven:
1 I think I could turn and live with animals
2 Here they are
EDWARD HARPER:
LIghts Out:
1 The Trumpet
2 The Ash Grove
3 The Wind's Song
4 Lights Out
SALLY BEAMISH:
Four Findrinny Songs:
1 Short Heraldry
2 Grey Seal
3 Three Horizons
4 Italia
LYELL CRESSWELL:
Prayer to appease the Spirit of the Land
ROGER WILLIAMS:
Oh! Mr. Lear!:
1 There was an old man in a tree
2 There was an old man of the Isles
3 A Scottish Lullaby
4 Scherzo
DAVID JOHNSON:
God, Man and the Animals:
nos 1-6 |
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ID: MSVCD92025
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: 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) |
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ID: MSVCD92014
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Chamber Ensemble
Edward Harper is also the director of the New Music Group as well as being a fine composer, as is his contemporary Lyell Cresswell. Jane Manning is acknowledged as one of the world's leading singers of new music.
tracks:
William Byrd, arr. Edward Harper:
Laetentur Coeli
Timor et Hebetudo
In Resurrexione Tua
L. Cresswell:
Prayer for the Cure of a Sprained Back
Words for Music
Sextet
E. Harper:
Fantasia III
Ricercari in memoriam Luigi Dallapiccola
Byrd arrangements |
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ID: MSVCD92039
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Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Vocal and Piano
In the days when serious composers wrote good music for children to play, sing or just to appreciate, many minor classics were penned. Mussorgsky's "The Nursery" is such and the British songs here, settings of masterpieces of prose by A A Milne and Kipling among others, are also of the highest standard, one or two having become ingrained in the memories of a generation.
tracks:
Thea Musgrave (wds M. Lindsay):
"A Suite o' Bairnsangs":
The Man in the Moon
Daffodils
Willie Webster
A Child's Prayer at Night
The Cherry Tree
Harold Fraser-Simson (wds a a milne):
Halfway Down
Disobedience
The King's Breakfast
Sneezies
Bad Sir Brian
The Emperor's Rhyme
At the Zoo
The Christening
The Four Friends
Missing
Twice Times
Wind on the Hill
Buckingham Palace
If I were King
Lines and Squares
Market Square
Edward German (wds R Kipling):
When the Cabin Portholes
The First Friend
The Camel's Hump
I keep Six Honest Serving Men
There was never a Queen like Balkis
Rolling down to Rio
Modest Mussorgsky: "The Nursery":
With Nanny
In the Corner
The Beetle
With the Doll
Bedtime Prayer
Sailor the Cat
Riding the Hobbyhorse |
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ID: MSVCD92043
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionComposer Jane Wells says that much of her music is inspired by projects with specific communities for special occasions - hence the title of the CD. Ultramarine and Wherever Next started out as music with dance. Wells's music is "of many moods" because of this, and has a life not just in itself but in the circumstances and events from which it was conceived.
Pieces written as a student (her composition teachers included Jonathan Harvey) were first performed at London venues in Society for the Promotion of New Music concerts. Commissions such as Composition for clarinet quintet followed (also broadcast on Radio 3) as well as various pieces composed for dance which were performed at the ICA, Riverside Studios, regional festivals, abroad and on Channel 4 TV (‘…set to a witty score for oboe and dripping water…’ New York Times).
She left London in 1987 to become composer/musician-in-residence at a small arts centre on the North Norfolk coast and wrote In These Places which was performed by John Harle with the County Youth Orchestra at St Andrews Hall, Norwich. Other large-scale pieces have included To the Turning of the Millennium (for baritone, children’s choir, small ensemble and tape), Here’s What I Saw (a half-evening of music-theatre) and Playing The Game for symphony orchestra premiered in Chelmsford.
A mid-length CD of five small-scale pieces played by the Composers Ensemble is available on the Metier label (‘an engaging saxophone solo…a splendid miniature cantata…’ Tempo magazine). Time Song (for counter-tenor, recorder and ‘cello) is included on the CD, ‘Pied Piper’, released in 2009 on the Campion Cameo label. Her composing takes place in the context of a busy programme of community music project- leading with people of many ages and abilities.
tracks:
Ultramarine
People and Places
One to Another
Wherever Next
Monday's Child
Richard Addinson (Alto Saxophone)
Jane Atkins (Viola)
Kate Lucas (Flute)
Philip Sheppard (Cello)
Mary Wiegold (Soprano)
Richard Addinson (Tenor Saxophone)
Catherine Edwards (Piano)
Duncan Prescott (Soprano Saxophone) |
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ID: MSVCD92068
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Vocal and Piano
The Lieder of Wolfgang Rihm is one of the most significant bodies of new vocal music to emante from Europe in the last forty years. Here sung with enormous sensitivity and expression by Clare Lesser, this is an important recital for all connoisseurs of art-song.
tracks: Ende de Handschrift (1999): Glückloser Engel 2 Nature Morte Blaupause Leere Zeit Traumwald "Im ächten Manne "Mit der Wiederkehr der Farbe" "..Und gehe weiter in die Landschaft.." "Wie einen Schatten hat gott den.." Drama "geh Ariel bring den Sturm.." Drei Gedichte von Monique Thoné(1997): "Vielleicht kommt mich morgen.." "Es ist unerträglich.." "ich bleibe allein" Lenz-Fragmente (1980): den 28 December 1775 "Ich will den nagenden Beschwerden ein Ende machen.." "Fühl alle Lust, fühl alle Pein.." An die Sonne Lied zum teutschen Tanz Das Rot (1990): Hochroth Ist alles stumm und leer Des Knaben Morgengruß Des Knaben Abendgruß An Creuzer Liebst du das Dunkel |
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ID: MSVCD92046
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Chamber Ensemble
Sue Anderson (mezzo-soprano), Nicolas Hodges (piano), Nancy Ruffer (flutes), Corrado Canonici (double bass), Andrew Sparling (bass clarinet), Julian Warburton (percussion)
All the works on this disc, according to the composer Justin Connolly, are explorations of images of darkness. They include "Nocturnal" a set of sea-pictures, and "Scardanelli Dreams", which "charts the motion of a great spirit, not dimmed, but which illuminates the darkness in which it finds itself."
tracks: Sonatina no. 2 - Ennead, op. 26 Nocturnal, op. 33 Tesserae F: "Domination in Black", op. 15f Scardanelli Dreams, op. 37 |
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ID: MSVCD92066
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Kolektion: Contemporary musicSubkolektion: New Music
"Sacred Physic" is a dramatic madrigal after Shakespeare, telling the story of King Pericles and Marina. Together with the other works on this album it demonstrates Julia Usher's individual and highly skilled writing.
tracks: Sacred Physic Lesley-Anne Rogers (soprano), John Turner (recorders), Nikki Bloomfield (oboe/cor anglais), Jonathan Price (cello), Janet Simpson (harpsichord) A Reed in the Wind Nikki Bloomfield (oboe/cor anglais) Before Light Ends Peter Lawson (piano) Le Isole della Laguna John Turner (recorders), Peter Lawson (piano) What is the Price of Experience? Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano), Peter Lawson (piano) Invocation: "Poor Naked Wretches" Nikki Bloomfield (alto), John Turner (recorder), Jonathan Price (cello), Peter Lawson (piano), Julia Usher (rainstick) |
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ID: MSVCD92100
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: 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 |
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