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ID: QTZ2041 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraMusic from the Service of Prayer and Dedication to Celebrate the Marriage of TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall
Released to mark the First Anniversary of the wedding of TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, this CD is a record of an extraordinary musical occasion featuring a glittering array of international star, including the Russian mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Semenchuk whose appearance was a "gift" to the Royal couple from the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg.
G.Albinoni: Concerto Op. 9 No. 2 for oboe & strings in D minor: Adagio
P. M. Davies: Farewell to Stromness
E. Elgar: Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20
G.Finzi: Romance for string orchestra, Op. 11
T. Grechaninov: The Creed
E. H. Grieg: Våren, elegiac melody for strings, Op. 34 No. 2
G. F. Handel: Water Music (extracts)
A. Hoddinott: Celebration Fanfare
W. Walton: Henry V - Suite
Philharmonia Orchestra
Christopher Warren-Green, conductor
The Choir of St George's Chapel, Windsor
Timothy Byram-Wigfield, conductor
Ekaterina Semenchuk - mezzo-soprano
Gordon Hunt - oboe
Roger Judd - organ |
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ID: QTZ2046 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: ChoirMusic by Richard Blackford Texts by St Francis of Assisi
Mirror of Perfection
Mirror of Perfection was commissioned by the Royal Ballet School and first performed at the Royal College of Music in March 1996. The words are settings of hitherto unknown poems by St Francis of Assisi and cover a wide expressive and emotional range: from hope to despair, longing to serene acceptance, love to bitterness, delight in Creation to an impassioned plea for peace amongst mankind. In the sixth of the seven parts the word "amore" appears no less than forty-eight times in a passacaglia setting of immense power and vocal dynamism. The cantata is no pious word-setting of an ancient saint; rather it is a passionate and vibrant evocation of a man who remains a symbol of hope in an age of spiritual emptiness and cultural decline.
It is paradoxical that the tiny chapel of the Porziuncula in which St Francis found solitude for much of his life was, four centuries later, overlayed in marble and gilt and enclosed within the massive superstructure of the church of Santa Maria delle Angeli. That the simplicity and goodness for which he stood should have survived the pomp of his canonization, the commercialization of Assisi and what in our world passes for glorification is nothing short of a miracle. Yet Francis remains a beacon of spiritual light in our technological, ego-based, psychologically-oriented twentieth century, and suggests that perhaps it is only poetry and the celebration of life in all its beauty and horror that offers any possibility of redemption as we face the new millennium.
During the composition I returned again and again to the image of Francis' little chapel, stripping away everything inessential, rhetorical, searching within for music that was a mirror of the saint's simple and profound delight in Creation. |
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ID: NMCD009 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraAntony Pay, London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen - Harrison Birtwistle: Ritual Fragment
This disc couples two major works composed in the 1970s, Melencolia I and Meridian, a setting of love poetry, with Ritual Fragment, written in 1989. The works display Birtwistle's distinctive and forceful voice and range in mood from austere introspective journeying to moments of unbearable intensity. |
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ID: NMCD014 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraThe enigmatic and intensely charged music of Bill Hopkins reflects the avant-garde sound-world of the 1960s with characteristic immediacy and quiet energy; Nine or Ten Osannas, by Anthony Gilbert - a close friend and ally - completes the disc. |
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ID: NMCD030 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraThree recordings from 1941, publicly available for the first time following transfer from the original 78rpm discs and lengthy subsequent treatment: the centrepiece is an off-air recording of the American premiere of Les Illuminations with Peter Pears. |
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ID: NMCD070 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraHugh Wood's Symphony is his most ambitious work to date: its four movements refer to musical sources as diverse as Mozart, Wagner and Janacek while never detracting from its coherence and power. It is coupled with Wood's dramatic setting of Milton's poem, the story of a wanderer lost in an enchanted wood. |
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ID: NMCD081 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraBuller's dramatic score Proença sets the lyrics of Troubadour songs for orchestra and two soloists: mezzo-soprano and electric guitar; while The Theatre of Memory takes its inspiration from ancient Greek drama.
Originally released on Unicorn-Kanchana in 1985.
Reissued with funding from Arts Council England. |
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ID: NMCD093 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraThis introduction to the music of Rupert Bawden features his chamber opera The Sailor's Tale - a counterpart to Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale and written for the same forces - setting Kevin Crossley-Holland's libretto on the life and loves of Horatio Nelson. Also on the disc are the panoramic Two Studies for Orchestra, based on the Tristan legend, and the energetic ensemble work The Donkey Dances. |
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ID: NMCD084 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraCantiga sets the tragic, bloodthirsty story of the 14th-century Spanish noblewoman Inês de Castro; Matthews Symphony No.4 subverts its classical model with plainsong and a tango.
These recordings were originally released on Unicorn-Kanchana in 1993.
Reissued with funding from Arts Council England. |
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