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ID: QTZ2049
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano and Clarinet
Described by Humphrey Burton on BBC Radio 3 as "a major new name on the new music horizon", Benjamin Wallfisch's fast-growing list of large-scale orchestral, vocal and chamber works shows him to be a serious composer for our times. Over thirty works have been commissioned to date.
A 2005 commission from Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra was the genesis of the symphonic movement entitled Speed which displays the juxtaposing of extremes in Benjamin Wallfisch's language "great energy contrasted with slow-moving, long-breathed and yearning melody. His first String Quartet was composed for the Belcea in 2001, followed by a second for the Coull. His works outside the concert hall include a major ballet score entitled 21, commissioned by the Rambert Dance Company and premiered at London's Sadler's Wells, and a feature film score for Thomas Vinterberg's and Lars von Trier's Dear Wendy, nominated as "Discovery of the Year" in the 2005 World Soundtrack Awards. From his Opus 1, the luminous and glistening Sudden Light (commissioned by the Manchester Camerata), to his latest works including the stratospheric Escape Velocity, a piece which received its premiere the 2006 BBC Proms, there is a consistent, compelling integrity and a palpable, powerful personality.
He begins a new work by building a strong idea of its overall structure into which he feeds ideas and 'elements which all share the same DNA', and where everything, from the overall rhythmic impetus to the tiniest melodic cell, justifies its existence through its place in a complex network of interconnections. Characteristically, he places emotion at the core of the music, along with a clarity of message that must be communicable, and he taps into a rich and instinctive vein of melody which is both attractive and challenging. Ben's music is, by design, vivid and disciplined, passionate and intense.
He has also built an important parallel career as a conductor and believes that conducting, just like composition, is creative, working to achieve a clearly defined vision that must be communicated with respect and conviction.
Benjamin Wallfisch composer/conductor
Escape Velocity
Concertino
Spectra
Speed
Trio
Requiem
Impulse
Nocturne
Michael Collins, clarinet
Gould Piano Trio
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
O Duo, marimbas
Orchestra of St John's
Jemima Phillips, harp
Trio Tagarela, recorders
York 2, piano duo |
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ID: ACDHJ028-2
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Subcollection: Voices
AMOR VINCIT -- “Love conquers” or, to quote the full verse, Omnia vincit amor, nos et cedamus amori, “Love conquers all, let us too yield to love” (Vergil, 70 BC - 19 BC, Eclogae 10.69).
Today, these words by Vergil are as inspiring as ever, witness the 277,000 hits they yield when used as a search term in Google. Referring to such diverse cultural manifestations
as a painting by Caravaggio, a chamber choir, a song by Deep Purple, the title of a movie, these universal words clearly express an essential part of our daily experience. Anne and Caroline now contribute the music of their choice. Does it speak of the eternal love of music? The love of their intense teamwork? Your love as a listener? The present selection of songs is a result of the combined tastes of the performers, weighing notes and words, contrast and intensity. |
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ID: RK3006
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Baroque
Tom Daun has been working with early harp music for a long time and has also performed his own compositions. Here he performs on an “arpa doppia” and a much smaller gothic harp. The collection includes works by Dowland, Weiss, Reusner, Bach and Neusidler. |
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ID: RKS59901
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Voices
Im Orient ist mein Herz, im Okzident
am letzten Saum verträume ich die Stunden...
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Du Seele willst ins Vaterhaus,
im Traume schwingst du dich zur Hshe.
Kein Traum nimmt die dein tiefes Wehe,
dein Heimweh aus der Brust heraus.
(Jehuda HaLevi, 12. Jahrhundert)
Am Anfang unseres Jahrtausends steht eine große europäisch-jüdische Kultur: im maurischen Spanien erblüht Sepharad, das Goldene Zeitalter des Judentums. Im Rheinland werden die jüdischen Gemeinden Speyer, Worms und Mainz zum Zentrum der Chaside Ashkenas, der Frommen Deutschlands.
Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts, nach blutigen Übergriffen im Namen der Christenheit in Zentraleuropa und der Reconquista in Spanien 1492, die mit der Vertreibung der Juden aus jenen einstigen Zentren des Geistes enden, gehen Jahrhunderte jüdischer Kultur zu Ende, aber nicht verloren.
Jalda Rebling führt ihre Zuhörer mit Liedern voll von Weisheit und Poesie in die Welt des jüdischen Mittelalters. Begleitet von Musikern auf historischen Instrumenten erzählt sie von einer bisher wenig bekannten Kultur und einer versunkenen Welt. |
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ID: RK9901
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Harp
Hans-Werner Apel (lute), Jalda Rebling (vocals), Michael Metzler (percussion), Sabine Heller (harp), Stefan Maass (lute) |
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ID: PTC5186135
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Subcollection: Harp
Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
This is certainly unusual repertoire, of which very few recordings exist, let alone on SACD. The earliest work on this CD is by Boïeldieu, best known as a composer of comic operas. Rodrigo’s Concierto Serenata is dedicated to the great Basque harpist Nicanor Zabaleta. Villa Lobos was a self-taught musician and was able to find his way around most instruments. He stated “Thanks to my experience with the guitar, I was also able to play the harp.” |
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ID: PTC5186149
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Subcollection: Flute
Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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ID: PTC5186141
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Subcollection: Guitar
Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
Pepe Romero - guitar
Angel Romero - guitar (Madrigal)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Conducted by:SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
*) Catherine Michel - harp - Orchestre National de l’Opera de Monte-Carlo
conducted by: Antonio de Almeida |
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ID: GMCD7258_9
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Baroque
Subcollection: Harp
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