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ID: NMCD116
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Violin
The first full-length disc from highly-acclaimed young composer David Sawer, featuring scintillating orchestral score the greatest happiness principle, ensemble works Tiroirs and The Memory of Water, and a specially-arranged orchestral suite taken from Sawer’s opera From Morning to Midnight, heard here for the first time. The disc features the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conducted by Martyn Brabbins and Susanna Malkki.
6 - Alexandra Wood, Simon Blendis, solo violins |
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ID: SIGCD461
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Orchestra
Symphony No 9 in C major 'The Great' D944
1. Andante - Allegro ma non troppo 15'13
2. Andante con moto 13'23
3. Scherzo: Allegro vivace 11'50
4. Finale: Allegro vivace 12'39 |
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ID: NMCD073
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
Britten's early score for Agatha Christie thriller Love From a Stranger is coupled with scores by Roberto Gerhard - for Lindsay Anderson's intense 1963 drama This Sporting Life - Richard Rodney Bennett's lush, romantic score to The Return of the Soldier, and Elisabeth Lutyens' superlatively creepy music for 60s horror film The Skull. |
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ID: NMCD088
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
While I Am Goya, The Sickle and Remembering Esenin share a common inspiration in Russian poetry of the last century, the Flute Concerto provides a contrast in its neo-Baroque concerto grosso style.
These recordings were originally released on Unicorn-Kanchana in 1983.
Reissued with funding from Arts Council England. |
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ID: SIGCD258
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Bassoon
A seductive and fascinating disc for fans of contemporary music, this collection of works for Bassoon with choir and orchestra feature works by British composer Stephen Frost and Norwegian composer Kjell Mørk Karlsen.
The disc’s title work Parapraxis, for solo bassoon and choir, melds together a mix of sacred latin text and secular English poetry, pushing and playing with the illusory ‘boundary’ that seems to exist between the two. The other two works - Frost’s Bassoon Concerto and Karlsen’s Serenata - are beguiling and stimulating pieces that show off the talents of Norwegian bassoonist Sigyn Birkeland and the Belarusian State Chamber Orchestra.
In demand as a soloist, Sigyn Birkeland has been Principal Bassoon in the Norwegian Radio Orchestra since 1992. She continues to champion the instrument by commissioning, performing and recording new works for the instrument in a variety of unique ensembles and settings. |
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ID: NMCD115
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Violin
Stuart MacRae's Violin Concerto, commissioned for the 2001 BBC Proms, is performed here by soloist Christian Tetzlaff with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under its chief conductor Ilan Volkov; it is coupled with Stirling Choruses, written for the brass section of the BBC SSO, which portrays the “dark and foreboding” Stirling Castle.
These are works are joined by Motus, a processional for 6 instruments; and Two Scenes from the Death of Count Ugolino, for voice and instrumental ensemble - based on a gruesome section of Dante’s Inferno, and featuring mezzo-soprano Loré Lixenberg.
1-4 - Christian Tetzlaff violin/ BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/ Ilan Volkov conductor
5-6 - Loré Lixenberg mezzo-soprano/ BCMG/ Susanna Mälkki conductor
7 - BCMG/ Susanna Mälkki conductor
8 - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/ Ilan Volkov conductor |
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ID: SIGCD493
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Orchestra
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ID: NMCD121
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Orchestra
Book of Hours combines ensemble and live electronics in a tribute to the glories of late medieval art; it uses electronic sound as (in the composer's words) "an extra colour … rather as gold-leaf might be applied in a Medieval manuscript".
This exploration of other times and sound-worlds is continued in Eden, Four American Choruses and Symphony (inspired by a painting of Lake Keitele in Finland); the disc is completed by Imagin'd Corners, an exuberant showpiece for five horns and orchestra.
Note on Recording (Track 9 "noise")
We would like to point out that the crackling noise present on track 2 of Book of Hours (track 9 of the album) is intentional. The composer's idea was to begin Part 2 of the work as a distorted version of Part 1 (track 8). Julian Anderson has explained to us that he is recreating - with electronics - the surface noise of LPs bought in Eastern Europe before the fall of the Berlin Wall (he has a strong interest in Eastern European music).
1- City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/ Martyn Brabbins, conductor
2, 7 - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/ Sakari Oramo, conductor
3, 4, 5, 6 - City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus/ Simon Halsey, conductor
8, 9 - Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/ Oliver Knussen, conductor |
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ID: SIGCD253
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
The next disc in Signum’s series of live orchestral recordings with the Philharmonia features the late Sir Charles Mackerras conducting Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.6 (Pathétique).
This was Tchaikovsky’s final completed symphony, premiered in St Petersberg under the baton of the composer in 1893, nine days before his death, dedicated to his nephew Vladimir ‘Bob’ Davydov.
The Philharmonia Orchestra are widely recognised as the UK’s finest performers with an impressive recording legacy. The orchestra prides itself on collaborations with the finest musicians of our day. |
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