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ID: SIGCD501 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subkolektion: Choir Sacred music by contemporary composers
Includes Tavener World Premiere Recording
Signum Records is delighted to announce the release of Tenebrae's second disc, Mother and Child
Tenebrae has, in its short existence, made a considerable impact with fresh and vital re-interpretations of classic works in the choral repertoire. On this new recording, innovatory and lesser-known repertoire is drawn from contemporary sources, reflecting an exploratory approach which places the group artistically at the cutting edge.
This is a distinctive and distinguished collection of works by a number of living composers, many of whom have established themselves at the creative forefront of the choral scene in recent times.
Five of the tracks are world premier recordings:
Francis Pott: The souls of the righteousSir John Tavener: Mother and ChildAlexander L’Estrange: Lute-book lullabyJeremy Filsell: O be joyful in the LordFrancis Pott: My song is love unknown
The centre-piece of the disc is a new commission - Mother and Child - by from the world acclaimed composer Sir John Taverner.
The universal aspect of motherhood is an idea to which Tavener has returned again and again in his music. Behind this concept lies that of infinite theophanic light, an idea common to all religious traditions. Tavener’s music here interpolates a poem by Brian Keeble with Greek and Sanskrit quotations, the latter in a climactic outburst. The music, having grown in crescendo, is joined by massive organ chords and develops to become an overwhelming pulsating texture at the climax, with awesome strokes sounded on a large Hindu temple gong. The clamour dissipates at the final invocation, ‘Hail Maria’, which is prayerful and contemplative. |
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ID: SIGCD225 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subkolektion: Choir The Temple Church Choir is considered to be one or the finest choirs in London, a reputation it quckly gained after its founding in 1831. Their debut CD with Signum Classics displays a range of fine sacred works written by English composers between the 17th Century and the present day.
The Temple Church is one of the most historic and beautiful churches in London. Situated between Fleet Street and the Thames Embankment, its recorded musical history extends back to its restoration in 1841, although a church has stood on the site for over 800 years.
The modern choir is comprised of 18 boy choristers and 12 professional choirmen - an excellent opportunity for the choristers who receive singing and theory tuition as well as generous scholarships towards their education. The programme explores three fascinating and contrasting settings of the Te Deum: A stalwart of the church liturgy (first conceived as far back as AD 387), these settings span over 300 years of English music history, composed respectively in 1694 (Purcell), 1897 (Elgar) and 1944 (Howells).
This disc is complemented by the release of James Vivian’s English Organ Music from the Temple Church, also released this month. |
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ID: SIGCD114 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Organ CollectionSubkolektion: Organ Following the success of Joseph Nolan’s appearance in Music for the Coronation of James II (SIGCD094), he returns to Signum with a solo disc of organ music, capturing music from some of the finest composers of the instrument. With J.S. Bach’s famous Passacaglia in C Minor to Noel Rawsthorne’s Dance Suite, (with inspiration from Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance) this disc certainly pushes the boundaries of organ music.
Fresh from a tour of the USA in 2007, Nolan has found international recognition as well as his commitments as organist at Her Majesty’s Chapels Royal where he was appointed in 2004. |
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ID: SIGCD084 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Organ CollectionSubkolektion: Organ Since the Royal Albert Hall organ was inaugurated by W.T.Best, the most famous performer of his day, in the presence of Queen Victoria on the 29th March 1871, it seems appropriate to begin this programme with one of Best’s own organ transcriptions: the Overture to Mendelssohn’s Oratorio St. Paul. Mendelssohn’s own performances of Bach on the organ in St. Paul’s Cathedral and elsewhere during the 1830s had been wildly acclaimed by the crowds who came to hear him and Best took full advantage of the enormous surge in interest in performances of music arranged for the organ. After the Mendelssohn Overture it is but a short step to the symphonic nature of Schumann’s Six Fugues on the name B-A-C-H, to which the wide dynamic range and sonic possibilities of the Albert Hall organ are ideally matched.
In the Bolcom Fantasia, the composer fuses a modern compositional idiom with two Southern Spirituals, breathing new life into both forms with shattering effect; in a way the same thing has happened to the Albert Hall organ, and with modern blowers for the bellows taking the place of the original steam engines of 1871, it certainly has enough wind now to cope with most contingencies - as you will hear.
In America the traditions of theatre organ playing are still kept very much alive. As a child I remember playing two very old records over and over again on a wind-up portable gramophone - the sort that had wooden needles which you had to keep sharpening.
The first was George Thalben-Ball playing The Ride of the Valkyries on the Alexandra Palace organ, and the other - equally favourite - was Quentin MacLean playing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on the organ in the Odeon Marble Arch. At the age of five I could not work out how Quentin MacLean did the opening glissando in Rhapsody in Blue; apparently he used the Siren stop - useful for Cops and Robbers chases in the silent movies - switched the organ on and, when the wind went into the bellows, it produced this very smooth glissando up to the top E flat!
Joseph Jongen and Siegfrid Karg-Elert were near contemporaries, and although generally regarded as organ composers, both were prolific in other forms: symphonic music, choral and chamber music and even opera. Jongen’s music is most fastidiously composed and the architectural shape and grandeur of the Sonata Eroďca is in wonderful contrast to the quite unexpected delicacy of Karg-Elert’s Valse Mignonne; here the extremely discerning listener may pick up some unexpected sounds of the gentler percussion stops on the enclosed Solo division of the Albert Hall organ.
Simon Preston, 2006 |
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ID: SIGCD167 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Organ CollectionSubkolektion: Organ The Organ of Saint Sulpice, Paris, is widely considered to be a prime example of the pinnacle of 19th-Century French organ building. Joseph Nolan expertly demonstrates the full capabilities of this mighty organ with this programme of Romantic organ music, performing favourite works by Boëllmann, Elgar, Liszt and Thalben-Ball.
This disc is a follow-up to last year’s well-received performance by Joseph Nolan on The Organ of Buckingham Palace (SIGCD114)
"Nolan not only draws real sparkle from the instrument, using its unprepossessing resources to amazing effect, but turns out a magisterial account of the sonata’s first movement [Sonata No. 3 in A, Mendelssohn]" Gramophone Magazine |
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ID: ORG72382 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Organ CollectionSubkolektion: Organ Ives: Variations on "America"
Foote: Oriental Sketch
Parker: Allegretto
Selby: Voluntary A-Dur
Chadwick: Pastorale Es-Dur
Buck: Concert Variations on "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Lemare: Marche Heroique
Sowerby: Carillon
Albright: Nocturne, Finale - The Offering
Bolcom: Sweet Hour of Prayer
Jens Korndoerfer / Orgeln Saints-Anges-Garidens de Lachine
Montreal, St. Andrew & St. Paul Montreal |
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ID: IFO00151 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Organ CollectionSubkolektion: Organ India (Rust);I've Got A Home Ina That Rock (Traditional);
Bajuschki Baju (Russisches Wiegenlied);Many And Great,
Oh God, Are Ty Things (Traditional);Gwerc'hes Diwar Ho Tron
(Albretonisches Marienlob);Hine Matov Uma Naim
(Traditional);Weißt du, wieviel Sternlein stehen
(Geistliches Volkslied);Introduktion Psalm 34
(Gregorianischer Choral);Psalm 34
Performers:
Marcus Rust (Trompete, Flügelhorn),Christian H. Grosch (Gesang & Orgel / Silbermann-Orgel St. Petri Freiberg) |
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ID: SIGCD508 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Organ CollectionSubkolektion: Organ The year 1937 was surely one of the richest years of the 20th century for the English organ repertoire. That peculiarly English genre the organ sonata gained two new major works with the publication of Percy Whitlock's sonata in C minor and Edward Bairstow's sonata in Eb.
Percy Whitlock studied composition at the Royal College of Music with Vaughan Williams. His C-minor organ sonata was conceived whilst laid low with illness and dependent upon the radio, where he was thrilled to hear a broadcast of Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony in C minor. Then during a period of convalescence, Whitlock enjoyed a series of country walks which sowed the seeds of the second and third movements of his sonata. The sonata is a brooding work of symphonic scale and complexity. In it, the organ is treated very much as an orchestra, requiring the player to be more than usually adroit at manipulating the stops to achieve specific tone-colours. The sonata is recognised as the finest of the very good, light, British organ pieces that exist (with most of the others being by Whitlock anyway).
In the 1930s Sir Edward Bairstow was Professor of Music at the University of Durham and had not written for the organ since 1911, chiefly concentrating instead on the composition of choral works. A nationally recognised academic, he came to regard some of his earlier organ works as somewhat sentimental but he had never the less had a yearning to write an organ sonata. By giving the work slow and quiet outer movements which rise in the middle, and a bright, strong central one, Bairstow inverts the usual pattern. He establishes the overall mood as quiet and introverted, suiting his love of restraint.
The disc concludes on an upbeat note with the arresting Flourish for an Occasion from the pen of Sir William Harris, organist of St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle. St George's is the home of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, and the occasion for which this piece was composed was the annual Garter service of 1947. |
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ID: QTZ2059 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Organ CollectionSubkolektion: Organ The debut album of calm and meditative masterpieces from Russian organist Svetlana Berezhnaya
T. G. Albinoni:
Adagio for Strings and Organ in G minor
J. S. Bach:
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068: Air ('Air on a G String')
Chorale Prelude BWV639 'Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ'
Siciliano in G minor from Flute Sonata No. 2, BWV1031
Adagio (from Toccata, Adagio & Fugue, BWV564)
E. J. Bozza: Aria
Brahms:
Chorale Prelude Op. 122 No. 8 'Es ist ein Ros entsprungen'
Chorale Prelude Op. 122 No. 10 'Herzlich tut mich verlangen'
G. Caccini: Ave Maria
F. Couperin: Tierce en Taille
C. Franck:
L'Organiste (extracts)
Quasi lento (Preludio)
Alessandro Marcello:
Adagio from Oboe Concerto in D minor
Oleg Yantchenko:
Meditation
Svetlana Berezhnaya - Organ |
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ID: IFO00133 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Organ CollectionSubkolektion: Organ Marie-Claire Alain an der E.F. Walcker-Orgel der Pfarrkirche St. Maria zu Schramberg (Schwarzwald) |
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