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ID: SIGCD152
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
Since her American debut in the early nineties, Silvia Tro Santafé has become one of the most sought after coloratura mezzos of her generation. On this disc we hear the proof of her operatic talents, performing some of the greatest and most passionate arias of any operatic mezzo soprano. |
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ID: SIGCD138
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
Elin Manahan Thomas Juliette Pochin Jon Christos Nick Garrett
Poetry Serenade brings together four top british singers to perform the newest masterpieces from Brian Knowles, based on the work of poets including William Wordsworth, Thomas Hood and Christina Georgina Rossetti. The eighteen songs on Poetry Serenade have been chosen to give the listener an eclectic array of the differing texts and contrasting styles of composition. A disc marvelled with talent, not only from the principle voices but also the RSVP Voices, the Brighton Festival Youth Choir and the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
FOREWORD by ALAN TITCHMARSH Brian Knowles is that rare thing - a composer of great originality who can also write good tunes! This CD is a terrific example of his work in setting some of the nation’s favourite poems to music. Having enjoyed Brian’s work myself for many years now, I’m happy to think that this CD will ensure it of a wider audience. His is a talent that deserves greater recognition and I congratulate him on a tremendous achievement. Alan Titchmarsh MBE
Jon Christos • Nick Garrett Juliette Pochin • Elin Manahan Thomas
The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
RSVP Voices - Director Rob Johnston (Tracks 2, 6, 10, 14, 17)
Brighton Festival Youth Choir - Director Juliette Pochin (Tracks 7, 8, 11)
Conducted By James Morgan |
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ID: SIGCD201
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Orchestral WorksSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
The London Chamber Orchestra, the UK’s oldest chamber orchestra, has nurtured the new and paid homage to the traditional since 1921. Since 1988 Principal Conductor and Music Director Christopher Warren-Green has brought together the inspirational musicians and repertoire for which LCO is renowned. The remarkable acoustic and intimate ambience of St. John’s, Smith Square, its London home, enable the LCO - the only chamber orchestra resident in London - to give vibrant performances and establish a close rapport with its audiences. The recordings on the LCO Live label, in partnership with Signum Classics, are the result of this happy marriage of orchestra and venue. |
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ID: GM4.0084
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Opera Collection1 - Frank Guarrera (Jago)
2 - 7 Carlo Bergonzi (Rodolfo), Marcella Pobbe (Mimì), Frank Guarrera (Marcello), Heidi Krall (Musetta)
8 - 10 Martha Mödl (Isolde), Ramón Vinay (Tristan), Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera - L. Bernstein
11 - 15 - Martha Mödl (soprano), Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra - J. Keilberth |
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ID: QTZ2018
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
World Premiere recording of Richard Blackford's acclaimed new secular oratorio based on songs, poems and recordings from countries around the world where issues of exile and freedom are dominant themes. |
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ID: QTZ2041
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
Music 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
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Subkolektion: Choir
Music 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: GD105
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra
The famous opera singer, Darina Takova is a lyrico-coloratura soprano with brilliance in the high pitches and excellent virtuosity in the bel canto arias. Her first appearances on stage are connected with the Sofia Opera, and her international career includes performances in the most famous opera stages in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, the USA, the United Kingdom, etc. She entered the Milan La Scala with the part of The Queen of the Night from Mozarts's Die Zauberflöte, while The Queen of Shemakha from The Golden Cockerel by Rimsky-Korsakov took her to the London Covent Garden. |
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