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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: DDA25010
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Swann/Broadbridge/Alderdyce/Cresswell
This CD contains "The Isles of Greece"
a song cycle which includes the Casos Sonnets 1-8 (in English) and the following songs (in Greek and English)
As a composer Donald Swann was more prolific, more varied, than might be imagined from those who only know him as half of the Flanders and Swann comedy duo. Fascinated by the Greek islands and particularly Casos, on which he found both peace and disquiet, he used Greek folksong and popular melodies as the basis for these joyful yet thoughtful songs, orchestrated by John Jansson.
BONUS: The Casos Sonnets, which form a separate subset, were never performed in Donald's lifetime. We are very fortunate to have secured a tape of these pieces, made by Donald for his own use on his beloved Bluthner piano at his Battersea home, and this CD includes this rare and valuable recording. |
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ID: DDA25001
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Includes seven world première recordings
Rediscovered gems from the 18th Century, these secular (or "profane") cantatas tell of nymphs and shepherds cavorting around the fields of ancient Greece. Concert Royal are one of Britain's longest-established "authentic performance" ensembles, playing period instruments, and this was their (and Divine Art's) first CD |
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ID: DDA25044
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
The composers on this disc are part of what is sometimes called "The Lost Generation" - those who because of their Jewish background were prevented from working, deported or imprisoned. While some, such as Korngold, were able to emigrate, Schulhoff, Ullmann and Haas all died in Nazi concentration camps. Much of their music has been re-discovered over the past few years, and this collection includes several world premiere recordings. |
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ID: DDA25049
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
J. Jeffreys - Awake Thee, My Bessy / The Song of Love / Under the Leaves Green / She Is All So Slight / Brown Is My Love/ Three Roses / Passing By / Horror Follows Horror / Severn Meadows ("Only the wanderer") / From Omiecourt / The Falcon ("He bear him up") / I am the gilly of Christ / Drop, Drop, Slow Tears / O my dere hert / Corpus Christi / Full Fathom Five / When That I Was / O Mistress Mine / Black Stitchel ("As I was lying on the Black Stitchel") / The Far Country / All Night under the Moon / The Salley Gardens / Little Trotty Wagtail / The Whin / She Is Ever for the New / Jillian of Berry ("For Jillian of Berry she dwells on a hill") |
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ID: MSVCD92031
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: 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
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Fine 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
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) |
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ID: MSVCD92014
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: 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
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: 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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