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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: NMCD155
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
Bennett is renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works.
His film music includes scores for Far from the Madding Crowd, Murder on the Orient Express and Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Richard Rodney Bennett has long had a private passion for making collages (and knitting!) and the cover image on this CD is one of his creations, currently displayed at an exhibition of his work in Chelsea.
Born in Broadstairs, Kent, in 1936, he has lived in New York City since 1979. Richard Rodney Bennett received a CBE in 1977, and was knighted in 1998. Bennett studied with Pierre Boulez in Paris.
This new recording spans five decades of Bennett’s song-writing, cherry-picking some of his most accessible and lyrical pieces, from the melodic Songs Before Sleep, performed by Roderick Williams, to the 1920s dance rhythms of A History of the Thé Dansant, the dramatic and rarely-performed Tom O'Bedlam's Song for tenor and cello (written for Peter Pears) and the enchanting A Garland for Marjory Fleming.
A wonderful recording, stunningly performed by a collection of internationally acclaimed soloists. |
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ID: SIGCD263
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
Composing over 150 works for piano and voice over a period of 44 years, the songs of Francis Poulenc remain consistently popular to concert audiences the world over. Varying in their individual style and character in a way that defies generalization, Poulenc set music to a wide range of different French poetry - both ancient and modern, and from the serious to the surreal.
This second release in a new series charts the complete songs of Francis Poulenc, performed by some of the greatest singers of the day and accompanied by the exceptional Malcolm Martineau. |
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ID: STR33866
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: World Premiere Recording
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
Sara Mingardo is one of the few rare authentic contralto voices on today’s music scene, and last year she won the prestigious Premio Abbiati 2010 as ‘Best Italian Singer’. Here she wonderfully interprets, in a thrilling World Première Recording, lyrical pieces for voice and piano by Guido Alberto Fano, with Aldo Orvieto at the piano.
G. A. Fano was born in Padua in 1875 and he died exactly 50 years ago in a small town in Friuli. His approach to song seems akin to that of Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968), who spoke of a new interest among Italian composers for vocal chamber music: “Incipit vita nova”, he proclaimed, with Dantesque tones he greeted the salvation of the genre from the monopoly enjoyed by the previous generation, first and foremost, the huge output of Abruzzo-born Francesco Tosti. A “new life” on which Pizzetti embarked by shedding the yolk of pleasant melody and conventional cadential formulae. These little known but highly attractive lyrical pieces, composed on immortal masterpieces by two great Italian poets, Giosuè Carducci (1835-1907) and Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912), clearly show Fano’s distance from the precepts of late 19th-century drawing-room song. |
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ID: 5060192780031
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: World Premiere Recording
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
This is the premiere recording of the songs of one of England’s best loved contemporary composers. Ronald Corp has composed settings of well-known poems by Whitman, Housman, Wordsworth, Blake and many others. Some of the songs are already well known and some are on the Associated Board syllabus. “….Mark Stone has it all, terrific technique, theatrical presence…” Classic FM Magazine |
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ID: STR57902
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chanson
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
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ID: SIGCD217
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Quartet
THE LONDON QUARTET with
All titles arranged by The London Quartet unless otherwise indicated.
Chris Hatt piano - tracks marked †
Alexander L’Estrange - piano and vocal
percussion (track 1), stick bass (track 13)
Richard Stilgoe - tracks 5, 15 and 19
Eliza Lumley - tracks 9, 10, 16 and 18
Cantabile (also known as ‘The London Quartet’) have been wowing audiences across the world since the 1980s with their shows that blend performance flair, comic timing and a deep passion for high-quality vocal music.
This album is an eclectic tribute to the very British obsession that is cricket, bringing together works from the turn of the century (school songs from Harrow and Eton) to the present day (Jiggery Pokery from the 2009 Ivor Novello nominated album The Duckworth-Lewis Method) - as well as from the well-known (Roy Harper’s When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease) to the obscure (The Summer Game, from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s little-known musical Cricket, commissioned for the Queen’s 60th Birthday). Featuring guest performances from the likes of Richard Stilgoe, Rory Bremner and Tim Rice, this album should prove a must-buy for cricket- and music-fans alike. |
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ID: 5060192780017
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
This debut recital disc from violinist Kaoru Yamada and pianist Sholto Kynoch is a breathtaking performance of a fascinating and beautiful programme based around the Fantasy repertoire for violin and piano. For Schubert’s song Sei mir gegrüsst, they are joined by rising stars of the singing world, soprano Rhona McKail and tenor Nicky Spence. |
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ID: 5060192780093
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
Celebrating Songs
This is the second volume of the first complete recording of the songs of Hugo Wolf. All the works are performed by internationally renowned lieder singers and were recorded live at the Oxford Lieder Festival. Sholto Kynoch is the founder and director of the festival and is in demand as a chamber musician and song accompanist. |
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ID: 5060192780086
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
Celebrating Songs
This is the first disc in a series that will be the first ever complete edition of the songs of Hugo Wolf. These performances were recorded live at the Oxford Lieder Festival (in the Holywell Music Room) on 22nd October 2010. |
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ID: 5060192780000
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
English love songs from Dowland to Britten.
This excellent release is a unique collection of English love songs by some of the great English composers of the 20th century including Vaughan-Williams, Purcell, Britten, Dowland, Finzi and Warlock. All of the songs are firm favourites; amongst the most well known are Silent worship, Where’er you walk, If music be the food of love and The salley gardens. Mark Stone has sung at Covent Garden most recently in “Don Giovanni” and is a regular guest at ENO, WNO, Glyndebourne and Opera North. He and Stephen Barlow regularly perform together as a recital duo and often appear on Radio 3 and in concert in the UK and abroad. |
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