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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: NMCD137
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraJudith Weir's major orchestral works. including Natural History, Forest and The Welcome Arrival of Rain
Weir’s music - often inspired by her love of nature and her interest in the world around her - is fresh, intelligent, approachable and evocative. Natural History - which she describes as a Taoist Carnival of the Animals-is set to ancient Chinese texts on horses, birds, fish and men and the music hints at an oriental and exotic world and in Moon and Star Weir uses the instruments highest and lowest registers to portray the vast expanse of our universe. |
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ID: NMCD146
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraThe Opera Group's lively production of Edward Rushton's new opera, described as 'part satire on rampant consumerism, part psychological thriller.’
Edward Rushton’s new opera, The Shops is described as ‘part satire on rampant consumerism, part psychological thriller’. Its central character, Christoph Schmalhans, is an obsessive stamp collector. He manages to steal prize examples from museums with the aid of his girlfriend Francesca, who distracts attention by causing scenes. His activities eventually attract the interest of the police and psychologists. In between, there is a running commentary on the phenomenon of shopaholics, along with a song-and-dance number from members of a mutual support group.
Darren Abrahams (tenor), Anna Dennis (soprano), Phyllis Cannan (contralto), Richard Burkhard (baritone), Louise Mott (mezzo-soprano), Paul Reeves (bass) |
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ID: SIGCD251
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraA fascinating musical journey through the Italian arias of Mozart, from one of his earliest works Lucio Silla (composed when he was just 16) through to his final Italian opera La Clemenza di Tito. |
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ID: STR33900
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: OpéraBy Sciarrino’s own admission, this is the best and reference version of his well-known 2-act-opera Luci mie traditrici in a stunning performance by Ensemble Algoritmo conducted by Marco Angius.
Luci mie traditrici was presented on 19th May 1998 in the Schwetzinger Festpiele under the German title Die tödliche Blume (The Deadly Flower). The libretto by Sciarrino is based freely on "Il tradimento per l’onore", a prose tragedy published for the first time in 1659 under the name of G.A. Cicognini (Florence 1606-Venice 1649) and followed by various reprintings. The libretto centres on lovers’ basic conflicts but Luci reaches beyond the ordinary by showing how familiar impulses can spiral into the pathological and cause disaster. A timid person turns into a perfidious murderer when he loses the certainty of his relationship. Tender feelings mutate into obsession; boundless love becomes immeasurable suffering, and the dream of lovers’ paradise turns into a vision of eternal damnation. |
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ID: 5060192780048
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
World Premiere Recording
Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraThis is the World Premiere of a brand new choral classic which is already being performed by choral societies around the UK. Paul Carr is the new voice of English choral music and his brother Gavin is associate guest conductor of the Bath Philharmonia. The work is sung by the professional chamber choir Chorus Angelorum. The CD also includes three shorter choral pieces by Paul Carr. |
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ID: STR37005
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Electro-Acoustic Chamber Music
Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraGerard Pape is an American composer, born in New York City in 1955, who has lived in France since 1991. He studied composition privately with George Cacioppo and William Albright, and electronic music with George Wilson at the University of Michigan. He has composed more than 80 works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, and vocal & instrumental soloists.
Interprets:
Olga Krashenko, viola, soprano
Stefan Tiedje, live electronics
John Kenny, tombone
Erik Drescher, flute
Nicholas Isherwood, bass voice
Troman Robin, flute
Maurizio Barbetti, viola
Robin Troman, recorder
Michel de Maulne, reciter
Conductors
Paul Mefano
Carmen Maria Carneci
Ensemble C.L.S.I.
Orchestra:
Orchestre de Flutes Francais |
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ID: CDC008
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Orchestral Works
Claire Sweeney, Mary Carewe, Frances McCafferty, Richard Suart & Sarah Eyden
70 years ago, from June to October, the German Luftwaffe tried to bomb Great Britain into submission. It never happened. British courage and resourcefulness triumphed. These events are celebrated in music and song on the latest release of The Carl Davis Collection. Here are the songs people sang, the film scores they loved and heard on the radio. A brilliant cast of soloists together with the BBC-CO and The Brighton Festival Chorus play and sing their hearts out just as people did in 1940.
This Album features: Claire Sweeney , Mary Carewe, Frances McCafferty, Richard Suart, Sarah Eyden, Brighton Festival Chorus and BBC Concert Orchestra all conducted by Carl Davis in a tremendous album of new orchestrations of the old favourites from World War II, never before performed in this format.
Released to coincide with the Anniversary of The Battle of Britain, this June, Carl Davis will be performing selections of the album at several concerts throughout June and July including Dunsfold Park, Surrey, June 5, Lichfield, July 9 and Liverpool, July 10.
The Carl Davis Collection will be taking adverts out in BBC Music Magazine and Classic FM and the album will be featured regularly on Radio 2. There will be a series of syndicated interviews with Carl and Claire Sweeney in the coming months on radio and interviews on television all centred on the release of Give Me A Smile |
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ID: SIGCD254
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraBeethoven’s euphoric Symphony No.9, like his symphony No.5, is one of those pieces of classical music which transcends the barrier between musical genres - one of the few pieces of the classical canon in the popular consciousness. Few can fail to be uplifted and caught up in the joyous Ode to Joy finale. For this performance, recorded live at the Edinburgh International Festival in 1994, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment were joined by the renowned conductor and long-time collaborator, Sir Charles Mackerras, a partnership between him and the OAE that lasted almost a quarter of a century.
This is Signum’s second release with the OAE, following a release of Monteverdi’s Vespers (SIGCD237) earlier this year. The next release, planned for December, will feature Sarah Connolly performing Mahler’s Totenfier and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with the OAE under Vladimir Jurowski. |
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