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ID: NMCD140
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano and ClarinetThis CD features eight premiere recordings:
• Three additional songs of Les Illuminations
• In memoriam Dennis Brain
• Rondo Concertante
• Elegy for Strings
• Variations for Solo Piano
• and the completion of Movements for a Clarinet Concerto.
The stunning performance of Les Illuminations by world-renowned soprano Sandrine Piau has been made possible thanks to the French label Naïve kindly releasing Sandrine from her exclusive recording contract for this CD. The ‘Clarinet Concerto’ was written for jazz star Benny Goodman, but Britten never completed it as the sketches were impounded by US Customs in 1941. It was Britten’s intention to resume work on the piece in 1943 but he never got round to it and so it remained a fragment, not performed until edited by Colin Matthews in 1990.
Britten intended the additional three songs recorded here-also setting Rimbaud-to be part of Les Illuminations. Sandrine Piau’s love affair with the music of Benjamin Britten blossomed when she was chosen to sing the role of Flora in Britten’s Turn of the Screw at Radio France.
In memoriam Dennis Brain for 4 horns, strings and tubular bells commemorates the great horn player for whom Britten wrote his Serenade for tenor, horn and strings. He died in a car crash in 1957. |
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ID: QTZ2073
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Ballet Music
Subcollection: OrchestreThis newly commissioned score has been composed by Tim A Duncan and Edward Barnwell, both highly regarded contemporary composers, and recorded by the 72-piece Moscow State Cinematic Orchestra and 10 soloists from the Manchester Symphony Orchestra. The live performances at the Royal Albert Hall will be complemented by a 20-piece orchestra. |
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ID: QTZ2060
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: PianoThe debut disc of Russian pianist Ksenia Bashmet, rising star and daughter of the legendary viola player and conductor Yuri Bashmet makes her solo debut on Quartz, performing two major 20th century Russian concertos - Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No 1 and Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto for piano & strings - as well as J S Bach's Concerto in D minor, BWV1052 with the acclaimed Moscow Soloists under her father’s baton.
J.S. BACH
Concerto No 1 in D minor for piano and orchestra, BWV 1052
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Concerto for piano and strings (1979)
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Concerto No 1 for piano, trumpet and orchestra, op. 35 (1933) |
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ID: RCO5005
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Collection:
Orchestral Works
Subcollection: OrchestreRecorded Live at Concertgebouw Amsterdam on 8 and 9 June, 20 August and 9 September 2005 |
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ID: RCO5002
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Collection:
Orchestral Works
Subcollection: OrchestreRecorded Live at Concertgebouw Amsterdam on 27 and 28 October 2004 |
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ID: NMCD015M
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Orchestral Works
Subcollection: OrchestreHolloway's Second Concerto for Orchestra displays the composer at his most thrilling and eclectic. Inspired by a visit to North Africa, the work pulsates with energy and excitement.
GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER - BEST CONTEMPORARY RECORDING 1994 "A fascinating disc: the Concerto isn't quite like anything else I know, and in every aspect NMC have served it well. It deserves the widest possible hearing."Gramophone 1994 |
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ID: NMCD017M
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection: OrchestreBBC Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bernas - Roger Smalley: Pulses for 5x4 Players
Rampant antiphonal brass and percussion characterise Smalley's Pulses for 5×4 Players - a huge and gripping work which uses electronic treatment of sound to explore the spatial relationship between groups of performers. |
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ID: NMCD005
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Orchestral Works
Subcollection: OrchestreLento is music of extraordinary directness and simplicity. It is an enigmatic and hypnotic work within which shifting modal chords progress through the orchestra to create a chorale-like, almost architectural form beneath a calm melodic surface; now something of a cult piece, it is NMC's most consistently-selling recording since its release in 1990. |
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ID: NMCD027S
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Orchestral Works
Subcollection: OrchestreThe first in NMC's series of BBC Proms commissions, Nicholas Sackman's Hawthorn is characterised by a colourful whirlwind of shuddering rhythms, vast swirling textures and lyrical lines. |
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ID: NMCD028S
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Orchestral Works
Subcollection: OrchestreByrnan Wood was inspired by Shakespeare's famous peripatetic forest in Macbeth; it explores the possibilities offered by the permutation of stillness into movement, as musical figures pass between players like Chinese whispers. |
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