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ID: SIGCD053
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Signum Classics are proud to announce The Brunel Ensemble's first disc on Signum Classics - Red Leaves.
No ensemble other ensemble is as committed to the performance of such works from all decades of the twentieth century. Formed in 1992, the group gives thrilling performances under Christopher Austin’s inspired direction.
John McCabe’s Red Leaves was commissioned by the European Community Chamber Orchestra and the 1991 Istanbul Festival. Composer Malcom Williamson studied with Elisabeth Lutyens (as did Robert Saxton) and he was Master of the Queen’s Music until his death in 2003. One of Lutyens’ first major success was a setting of Rimbaud, O Saisons, O Chateau encored at the first performance in 1947 - but noteable for having previously been turned down by the BBC as unsingable!
The McCabe and Williamson pieces are linked by the common theme of nature, the latter being inspired by Australian landscape and history. It was commissioned for the 150th Anniversary of the State of Victoria. For his anniversary greeting of 1986 on the occasion of his colleague’s half century, Robert Saxton presented his Birthday Piece for Richard Rodney Bennett. In which he chose in time-honoured manner to extract from Bennett’s name the musical notes available as a thematic cipher, and to fashion them after his own manner into a bracing invention for strings. Red Leaves is a disc of modern works by British composers. |
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ID: NMCD001
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Spectrum, Guy Protheroe
A mystical exploration of the Sanskrit Hymns of the Rig Veda for chamber ensemble and quadrophonic tape by Jonathan Harvey, whose long-standing connections with IRCAM and studies with Pierre Boulez are perfectly demonstrated here. |
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ID: NMCD004
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
These three major works by one of Britain's most respected composers explore the effects of shifting rhythms, textures and timbres within music that explodes with ideas and events. |
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ID: STR33897
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Violin
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ID: SIGCD129
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Since the Cadence Ensemble's premiere performance in 2004, the group has quickly become one of the leading and most popular music groups of Armenia. Initially performing the works of Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla the ensemble has expanded its repertoire to incorporate contemporary European and Armenian composers. Under the leadership of pianist, Armen Babkhanian, the ensemble has enjoyed international success.
Folk Metamorphoses (based on themes of Komitas Vardapet, Sayat-Nova and Shirin) |
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