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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: NMCD013S
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection: String OrchestraCity of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox - Barry Guy: After the Rain
After the Rain, for string orchestra, draws on Max Ernst's disturbing painting Europe After the Rain - depicting the bleak remains of a landscape left after some inexplicable catastrophe - within a work of remarkable strength and optimism. |
| 15.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD135
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber EnsembleHoward Skempton’s first full-length disc for NMC - following the best-selling single Lento - is Ben Somewhen. It pairs chamber music performed by BCMG - ranging from solo cello to the exuberant yet very English Chamber Concerto - with choral music sung by EXAUDI, including the dancing, evocative setting of Shelley, The Voice of the Spirits. The title work takes its inspiration from the witty line drawings of Ben Hartley.
This disc contrasts Skempton’s choral works-including the dancing, evocative setting of Shelley’s The Voice of the Spirits and the spiritual Rise up, my love-with chamber music ranging from solo cello (the Suite from ‘Delicate’) to the exuberant, yet very English, Chamber Concerto. |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD147
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: PianoThe Fidelio Trio - brilliant young soloists in their own right - bring the medium of piano trio back to life and straight into the twenty-first century with these four works by Ed Bennett, Deirdre Gribbin, Donnacha Dennehy and Kevin Volans - three of which were specially written for them. |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD141
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraThe works on this disc explore Harvey’s fascination with Eastern philosophies from the ecstatic Indian text of White as Jasmine to Body Mandala. |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD137
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraJudith Weir's major orchestral works. including Natural History, Forest and The Welcome Arrival of Rain
Weir’s music - often inspired by her love of nature and her interest in the world around her - is fresh, intelligent, approachable and evocative. Natural History - which she describes as a Taoist Carnival of the Animals-is set to ancient Chinese texts on horses, birds, fish and men and the music hints at an oriental and exotic world and in Moon and Star Weir uses the instruments highest and lowest registers to portray the vast expanse of our universe. |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD149
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber OrchestraColin Matthews: Chamber works (NMC D149 - Ancora Series)
Oboe Quartet No.1, String Quartet No.2,
Divertimento for Double String Quartet, Five Concertinos for Wind Quintet, Triptych
‘[Colin Matthews is] the Isambard Kingdom Brunel of contemporary music: master of great time machines, steamy with energy derived from pulse and from massive,
surging harmony, and openly displaying their structural engineering, all finished with a craftsman's care.' Paul Griffiths
Most of the works on this disc were originally available on vinyl only; the String Quartet No.2, performed by the Brindisi Quartet, has never been released.
Ancora Series
The NMC Ancora series is devoted to the re-issue of important recordings of contemporary British works which have been deleted from other record labels.
Recent additions to the series include the Gramophone award winning performance of Harrison Birtwistle’s opera Punch and Judy and David Blake’s Violin Concerto.
This autumn we are re-releasing Birtwistle’s Secret Theatre performed by the London Sinfonietta under Elgar Howarth. |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD146
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraThe Opera Group's lively production of Edward Rushton's new opera, described as 'part satire on rampant consumerism, part psychological thriller.’
Edward Rushton’s new opera, The Shops is described as ‘part satire on rampant consumerism, part psychological thriller’. Its central character, Christoph Schmalhans, is an obsessive stamp collector. He manages to steal prize examples from museums with the aid of his girlfriend Francesca, who distracts attention by causing scenes. His activities eventually attract the interest of the police and psychologists. In between, there is a running commentary on the phenomenon of shopaholics, along with a song-and-dance number from members of a mutual support group.
Darren Abrahams (tenor), Anna Dennis (soprano), Phyllis Cannan (contralto), Richard Burkhard (baritone), Louise Mott (mezzo-soprano), Paul Reeves (bass) |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD136
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: PianoFor over thirty years Rex Lawson has been at the forefront of pianola music throughout the world. This recording features new music and arrangements for pianola commissioned by the Aeolian Company of London in 1921, with music from JS Bach, Arnold Bax, Frederic Cowen, Percy Grainger, Herbert Howells, Maurice Ravel, Alfredo Casella, Hubert Parry, Igor Stravinsky and others. |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD153
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber EnsembleThea Musgrave's dramatic evocation of JMW Turner's seascapes is coupled with her settings of Burns' poems, 'Songs for a Winters Evening', and the double concerto 'Two's Company', written for Dame Evelyn Glennie and Nicholas Daniel. |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD128
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: PianoOver the last three years Holt has revised all of his older piano works, written several new works, and collected a number of them together. He now plans to take a break from piano music for the next few years, while he concentrates on orchestral and music theatre works.
All the works on this disc are premiere recordings.
Rolf Hind’s recording of Holt’s only piano concerto - eco-pavan for piano and ensemble - is on NMCD094 Although Simon Holt is perhaps best known for his ensemble music-notably the NMC CDs by the Nash Ensemble and BCMG-he often refers to himself primarily as a piano composer.
An accomplished keyboard player himself, Holt considers the fourteen piano works written between 1980 and 2005 to be the very core of his output, and perhaps the works closest to his heart.
This CD of his piano music is an important document of his work. |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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