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Subcollection: Choral and OrganA significant Christmas release: Geoffrey Webber has put together a fantastic programme which Delphian had fun recording in the glorious acoustics of St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast. Fresh from their 2009 Gramophone Editor's Choice, Webber's choir has put together an intriguing programme in which medieval works illuminate contemporary settings by some of the UK's finest living composers. From the plangent innocence of Sweeney's The Innumerable Christ to the shining antiphony of Burrell's Creator of the Stars of Night, this selection will seduce. Caius, as we've come to expect, combine polish with verve, Webber's meticulous attention to detail floodlit by the bathing acoustics of St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast.
Track listing
1 Diana Burrell - Creator of the Stars of Night
2 Judith Bingham - Annunciation
3 Stuart MacRae - Adam lay y-bounden
4 13th-c. English - Edi beo thu
5 Richard Causton -Cradle Song
6 Francis Pott -That yongë child
7 John Dunstaple - Quam pulchra es
8 Gabriel Jackson -Salus aeterna
9 16th-c. English - Salvator mundi Domine
10 Howard Skempton - To Bethlem did they go
11 Judith Bingham - God would be born in thee
12 John Redford - Tui sunt caeli
13 Howard Skempton - Into this world, this day did come
14 William Sweeney - The Innumerable Christ
15 12th-c. English - Verbum Patris umanatur
16 Diana Burrell - Christo paremus cantica
17 Robin Holloway - Christmas Carol
18 15th-c. English - Nowell sing we
19 Judith Bingham - Incarnation with shepherds dancing
20 Gabriel Jackson - Nowell sing we Listen
Total playing time [75:28]
Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber |
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ID: DCD34071
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Subcollection: ChoirFollowing their highly acclaimed recording of the 16th-century John Taverner, Duncan Ferguson and his Edinburgh choir turn their attention to one of the 19th -century's compositional giants. This sequence of motets among them several little-known gems are a testament to Bruckner's profound Catholic faith and these performances blaze with fire and fervour in the vast cathedral's icy acoustic.
Bruckner:
Tota pulchra es, antiphon, WAB 46
Aequalis No. 1 for three trombones
Zwei Totenlieder I: O ihr, die ihr heut mit mir zum Grabe geht
Ave Maria (1861), WAB 6
Offertorium: Afferentur regi
Christus factus est
Ecce sacerdos magnus
Virga Jesse floruit
Locus iste, WAB 23
Pange lingua
Iam lucis orto sidere
Aequalis No. 2 for three trombones
Libera me, for choir & organ, WAB 21
Zwei Totenlieder II: O ihr, die ihr heut mit mir zum Grabe geht
Vexilla regis
Os justi meditabitur sapientiam
Inveni David, offertorium for male chorus & 4 trombones,WAB 19
Nicholas Wearne (organ)
The Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh & RSAMD Brass, Duncan Ferguson |
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ID: DCD34077
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Collection:
Christmas Music
Subcollection: OrganThomas Laing-Reilly (the organ of St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh) St Cuthbert's Change-Ringers
Situated in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle, St Cuthbert’s Church was the first parish church in Scotland to hold candlelit services on Christmas Eve. The two-thousand-strong congregation was regularly joined by people standing in the aisles! Today, the organ continues to combine its role of supporting the singing with solo performance of varied repertoire. Director of Music Thomas Laing-Reilly has at his hands an instrument seemingly able to speak any language. Its vast palette is demonstrated with striking clarity on his debut recording, in a range of repertory which crosses national borders with disarming ease.
Track listing
1 William T. Best (1826-97)
A Christmas Fantasy on Old English Carols
2 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Chorale: Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her
3 Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her
4 Johann Pachelbel
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her (Fughetta)
5 Johann Bernhard Bach (1676-1749)
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her
6 Johann Sebastian Bach
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her, BWV738
7 Max Reger (1873-1916)
Weihnachten, Op. 145 No. 3
8 Jean-François Dandrieu (1682-1738)
Noël cette Journée
9 Jean-François Dandrieu
Il n’est rien de plus tendre
10 Louis-Claude d’Aquin (1694-1772)
Noël X
11 Pierre Cochereau (1924-84), transcr. J. Filsell
Variations on ‘Adeste Fideles’
12 Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)
Noël Ecossais
13 Jeanne Demessieux (1921-68)
Adeste Fideles (Musette)
14 Jean Langlais (1907-91)
Noël Breton (Huit Chants de Bretagne)
15 John Ireland (1879-1962)
The Holy Boy (A Carol of the Nativity)
16 Sir Arthur Somervell (1863-1937)
Shepherd’s Cradle Song
17 Alfred Hollins (1865-1942)
Christmas Cradle Song
18 Garth Edmundson (1900-71)
Vom Himmel hoch (Toccata-Prelude IV)
19 The Bells of St Cuthbert’s Church
St Cuthbert’s Change-Ringers
Total playing time [77.50] |
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ID: DCD34064
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Organ Collection
Subcollection: OrganEdinburgh’s city organist John Kitchen visits Scotland’s Mither Kirk and the country’s largest organ. Never before heard on disc, the 1939 Rushworth & Dreaper represents the zenith of British organ building. Kitchen harnesses this king of instruments in a varied recital, revelling in its sheer magnificence.
Asma:
Three hymn tune preludes
Fantasie over de Avondzang " 'k wil U o God mijn dank betalen"
Duruflé:
Méditation, Op. post.
Elgar:
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, Op. 39 No. 1
Guilmant:
Grand Choeur in D
Kee, C:
Variations on a Dutch song 'Merck toch hoe sterck'
Milford:
St Columba, Op. 14
Parry:
Croft's 136th
Rowley:
Benedictus
Stanford:
Prelude on St Columba, Op. 101 No. 6
Widor:
Organ Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 13 No. 4
John Kitchen (organ) |
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ID: ACDBO063-2
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Baroque
There are a number of recordings of the choral partita ‘Ach wie nichtig, ach wie flüchtig’ by Georg Böhm (1666-1733), including one on the great Arp Schnitger city organ in Hamburg (1693), 57 voices, beautifully played by Stef Tuinstra. The version heard here is played on Arp Schnitger’s smallest organ positiv, 8 voices, but it offers enough variation to register the 8 variations in a diverse manner. The suite in A Minor ‘Melpomene’ by Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer (1665-1746) is taken from his Musikalischer Parnassus (1738). Melpomene was the muse of song and tragedy. The stylised dances are a slow Allemande, the fast Passepied, a Rondeau, alternately a refrain and a verse, a Chaconne, variations based on a descending series of 4 tones and finally a fast Gigue. The Fantasia on the hexachord Vt Re Mi Fa Sol La by Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667) was already a famous work during his lifetime., Athenasius Kirchner mentions the work in his Masurgia (1646) and it was published in an autograph in 1649. The seven parts of the work bring the hexachord in various rhythms and with various second voices. In the sixth and seventh parts he adds chromatic tones, thus deftly exploiting the meantone temperament in the strong effect of dissonants and consonants. A true masterpiece. Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667) wrote the Tombeau on the death of the lute player Blancheroche in Paris and added the following remark: ‘fait à Paris sur la mort de Monsieur Blancheroche: lequel se joue fort lentement à la discretion sans observer aucune mesure.’ The improvisational character of the piece strongly resembles the Preludes non mésuree by Louis Couperin, whom Froberger met in Paris in 1652. A striking feature of this work is its exploitation of the meantone temperament, e.g. Froberger twice prescribes a D flat for where a C sharp is tuned, using the dissonant here as an expressive device. The Preludium is one of the great free forms in keyboard music. Of Hans Kotter (1485-1541) we hear an early example, here called Proömium in re. Kotter was a pupil of Paulus Hofhaymer, the most important ‘Organistenmacher’ of the 16th century, just as Sweelinck was in the 17th century. The original of the Giusti instrument is now in the Tagliavini collection in Bologna/Italy. |
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ID: RK2903
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Subcollection: OrganThe number of interpretations of this work, ranging from symphonic to progressive rock and jazz, show what a masterwork of cultural history this composition is. In this new version, Cittadin plays the organ of St. Elizabeth’s church in Basel and Tarr plays percussion instruments such as Baroque timpani, side drums, cymbals and triangle.
Dass die »Bilder einer Ausstellung« ein Meisterwerk der Kulturgeschichte sind, davon zeugen schon die unzähligen Neuversionen des genialen Solopianostücks von Modest Mussorgsky. Die Interpretationen der Bilder reichen von Maurice Ravels symphonischem Feuerwerk bis zu progressiven Rock-, Synthesizer-, und Kammerjazzversionen der letzten 40 Jahre.
Nicola Cittadin und Philip Tarr offerieren nun ihre Neubearbeitung, gespielt an der Orgel der Kirche Elisabethen in Basel und begleitet von Schlaginstrumenten wie Barockpauken, Militärtrommeln, Becken und Triangel als eine Promenade von den Kosaken nach Kiew, von Modest zu Miles Davis. |
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ID: DCD34072
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Subcollection: ChoirFounded as recently as 2008, the new Choir of Merton College, Oxford is rapidly emerging as a major force in collegiate choral music. On this, their debut recording, the choir’s two directors helm a diverse programme that reflects the range and reach of the choir’s daily repertoire. Bookended by two pieces titled In the Beginning Gabriel Jackson’s ravishing version of the rarely-set Johannine Prologue, Copland’s glowing account of the first seven days of creation - this disc offers a themed sequence of Renaissance and modern classics, all captured in sumptuous sound in the radiant acoustics of Merton’s famous chapel.
Copland:
In the Beginning
Gombert:
Lugebat David Absalon 8vv
Holst:
Nunc dimittis, H127
Jackson, Gabriel:
In the Beginning was the Word
Lukaszewski:
Nunc dimittis
Palestrina:
Nunc dimittis
Weelkes:
When David Heard
Whitacre:
When David Heard
Beth Mackay (mezzo-soprano) & Natasha Tyrwhitt-Drake (organ scholar)
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas & Peter Phillips (conductors) |
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ID: DCD34044
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Organ Collection
Subcollection: OrganTimothy Byram-Wigfield (Caird Hall organ)
Designed by the blind organist Alfred Hollins, the Caird Hall instrument is one of the finest recital organs in the UK - as ideal a vehicle for Hollins’ own music as Byram-Wigfield is an exponent of it. Hollins effortlessly combines keyboard pyrotechnics with a quasi-orchestral approach to sonority. These works bristle with vigour, their swaggering confidence leavened with ingenuity and wit.
Track listing
Alfred Hollins
1. Concert Overture in C major (1889)
2. Benediction Nuptiale (1898)
3. A Trumpet Minuet (1929)
4. Allegretto grazioso (1906)
5. Concert Overture in C minor (1899)
6. Evening Rest (1917)
7. Concert Overture in F minor (1922)
8. Andante in D (1895)
9. A Song of Sunshine (1913)
10. Maytime Gavotte (1927)
11. Theme with Variations and Fugue (1911)
Total Playing Time: [79:40] |
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ID: RK9805
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Musique Romantique
Subcollection: Organ1. Carl August Fischer (1828 - 1895)
Fantasie op. 21
2. Richard Bartmuss (1859 - 1910)
Rezitativ und Arioso op. 24
Moderato assai
3. Bernhard Edward Müller (1842?)
Gebet op. 65b
4. Gioacchino Rossini (1792 - 1868)
Aria »Cujus animam« aus dem »Stabat mater«
Transkription von Franz Liszt
5.6. Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934)
Duet for Trombone and Organ
Andante quasi Adagio
Allegro giojoso ma maestoso
7. Franz Liszt/nach Jacob Arcadelt (um 1514 vor 1572)
Ave Maria
8.Friedrich August Belcke (1795 - 1874)
Fantasia op. 58
9. 13. Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Via crucis Die vierzehn Stationen des Kreuzweges
I. Einleitung: »O! Crux ave! Spes unica.«
II. Jesus begegnet seiner heiligen Mutter.
III. Simon von Kyrene hilft Jesus das Kreuz tragen.
IV. Jesus wird entkleidet.
V. Jesus wird vom Kreuz genommen.
14.-15. Franz Liszt
Hosannah. Ein Sonntagsposaunenstück für Baßposaune und Orgel Choral: »Heilig ist Gott, der Vater« Hosannah
16. Franz Liszt
Orpheus
17.20. Julius Schneider (18051885)
»Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan« Choralvariation op. 16 Thema Variation I: Andante con moto
Variation II
Variation III: Allegro piu Allegro |
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ID: RK9907
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Baroque
Sebastian Knebel spielt an den Orgeln der Kirchen von Untergneus, Wohlmuthausen, Friedelshausen und Gräfenhain
Zahlreiche barocke Orgeln haben auf dem Thüringer Land die letzten Jahrhunderte schadlos überstanden. In der stilsicheren Interpretation von Sebastian Knebel erklingen Werke von J. S. Bach, Johann Pachelbel und Heinrich Buttstedt ganz authentisch auf wunderbaren Kleinoden der Barockzeit.
Sebastian Knebel zeigte früh Interesse für Orgelmusik und Orgelbau. Er absolvierte neben einer Lehre als Orgelbauer eine C-Kirchenmusikerausbildung: in dieser Zeit spielte er zahlreiche Orgelvertretungen an Berliner Kirchen (u. a. Dauervertretung am Französischen Dom). Er studierte in Dresden und Weimar Kirchenmusik und beschäftigte sich eingehend mit dem Spiel auf historischen Tasteninstrumenten. Darüber hinaus studierte er bei Ludger Rémy und belegte Kurse zur historischen Aufführungspraxis u. a. bei Harald Vogel und Ton Koopmann. Er engagierte sich für den Erhalt vom Verfall bedrohter historischer Orgeln, besonders in Thüringen. Von 1995 bis 2000 war er als Cembalist des Telemann Kammerorchesters tätig, seit 2001 ist er Cembalist des Telemannschen Collegium Michaelstein. Außerdem verfolgt er eine umfangreiche freiberufliche Konzerttätigkeit als Organist, Cembalist und Hammerflügelspieler. Er steht in ständiger Zusammenarbeit mit dem Körnerschen Singverein Dresden. Konzertreisen führen ihn u. a. nach Frankreich, Polen, Tschechien, England und die USA.
Johann Christoph Bach
Prelude and Fugue in E flat
Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz
Johann Pachelbel
Fantasia in G minor
Prelude in D minor
Ciaccona in F minor
Johann Sebastian Bach
Chorale Preludes
Leipzig Chorales
Preludes and Fugues
Johann Gottfried Walther
Toccata and Fugue in C
Johann Bernhard Bach
Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ
Nicolaus Vetter
Partita ex B
Johann Heinrich Buttstedt
Fugue in E minor
Chorale Prelude on 'Vom Himmel hoch'
Georg Böhm
Chorales |
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