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ID: RES10150
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Type: CD
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Kolekce: Chamber MusicPodkolekce: Quartet
Dudok Kwartet
Prize-winning Amsterdam-based string quartet, the Dudok Kwartet, make their recording debut here with an enthralling and eclectic programme of works by Joseph Haydn, György Ligeti and Johannes Brahms. Recipients of the prestigious 2014 Kersjes Prize for an exceptional Dutch chamber ensemble the quartet have a rapidly growing reputation as one of the most promising young European strings quartets.
Exploring the theme of metamorphoses in the music of the three composers represented here, these exquisite performances feature music from the entire spectrum of the quartet repertoire, from fresh interpretations of Haydn's C major quartet from his Op. 54 to the technical limits explored in Ligeti's first string quartet, Métamorphoses nocturnes, and the quartet's own effective arrangements of Brahms piano intermezzi. |
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ID: RES10149
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Type: CD
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Kolekce: Chamber MusicPodkolekce: Sbor
Berkeley Ensemble
Following their acclaimed debut recording (Clarion Call - RES10127), the Berkeley Ensemble returns with a programme of chamber works by the British composer Lennox Berkeley, one of the two composers (father and son) after whom the group gets its name.
Featuring a number of world premiere recordings, the ensemble presents a selection of works that covers most of Berkeley’s creative life from the early Francophile clarinet Sonatine written in Paris while a student of Nadia Boulanger to the inventive Introduction and Allegro for double bass and piano. Also featured are the Three solo pieces for viola and the large scale String Trio Op. 19 and Sextet, Op. 47 for clarinet, horn and string quartet, and the emotive miniature In Memoriam Igor Stravinsky. |
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ID: RES10148
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Type: CD
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Kolekce: BaroquePodkolekce: Violin
Rie Kimura (Baroque violin) & Fantasticus (Robert Smith - Baroque cello & Guillermo Brachetta - harpsichord)
Founder member of the acclaimed Baroque trio Fantasticus, and celebrated up-and-coming violinist, Rie Kimura, makes a sensational solo debut with this thrilling selection of four virtuosic violin sonatas.
Joined by Baroque cellist Robert Smith and harpsichordist Guillermo Brachetta from Fantasticus, Kimura presents scintillating works by Italian eighteenth-century luminaries Giuseppe Tartini (including his famous Devil’s Trill sonata) and Francesco Maria Veracini. |
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ID: RES10146
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Type: CD
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Kolekce: Vocal CollectionPodkolekce: Vocal Ensemble
The Queen's Six - Daniel Brittain & Timothy Carleston (countertenors), Nicholas Madden & Dominic Bland (tenors), Andrew Thompson & Simon Whiteley (basses)
The Queen’s Six releases their debut album with a sumptuous selection of music from the golden age of English polyphony.
Recorded in the extraordinary surroundings of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle - where each member of The Queen’s Six is a Lay Clerk - Music of the Realm features six composers associated with the royal court of Queen Elizabeth I, from whom the group gets its name.
For their first Resonus album the group have selected a programme of both well and lesser-known works by six composers who wrote music for and during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I - William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, Thomas Tomkins, Thomas Weelkes, Thomas Morley and Orlando Gibbons. The recording is accompanied by an essay from early music scholar and conductor, Peter Phillips.
'They bring seamless blend and balance to music from the reign of Elizabeth I, from whom they take their name.'
The Observer |
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ID: RES10143
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Type: CD
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Kolekce: Organ CollectionPodkolekce: Organ
Stephen Farr (organ) with The Gentlemen of the Choir of Sidney Sussex College directed by David Skinner
Acclaimed organist, Stephen Farr returns with an album of organ masterworks from the Tudor and Jacobean era performed on the new Taylor & Boody Organ (Opus 66) of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Installed in 2013, this single manual, mechanical action instrument, features seven stops and was specifically designed to accompany and perform music from the English Renaissance.
Here Farr performs virtuosic works by some of the period's leading composers including William Byrd's Voluntarie for my ladye nevell and John Bull's Coranto Joyeuse. Other composers featured on the album include Thomas Tallis, Thomas Tomkins, John Blitheman and Orlando Gibbons. Farr is also joined by The Gentlemen of the Choir of Sidney Sussex College directed by David Skinner. |
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ID: RES10141
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Type: CD
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Kolekce: Vocal CollectionPodkolekce: Voice, Piano and Orchestra
Ashley Riches (baritone) & Emma Abbate (piano)
Former Royal Opera House Jette Parker Young Artist baritone Ashley Riches, and rising star pianist Emma Abbate, perform a ravishing selection of previously unrecorded Shakespeare Sonnets by Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
Composed after his migration to the USA in 1939, these songs contain all the wistful atmsophere of, and his obvious warmth for, his native Florence as well as his life-long obsession with William Shakespeare. Making his solo album debut with this album, Ashley Riches, along with the superbly eloquent pianist Emma Abbate, wonderfully capture the mood of each of Shakespeare's masterpieces in miniature. |
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ID: RES10139
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Kolekce: Chamber MusicPodkolekce: Violin and Ensemble
Chamber Domaine & Thomas Kemp (conductor & violin)
Acclaimed ensemble Chamber Domaine with their director Thomas Kemp return to the Resonus label with an exciting programme of early works by Benjamin Britten, including four significant world premieres.
Entitled Journey to Aldeburgh, Chamber Domaine explores works written while Britten was a student at London's Royal College of Music culminating with the Suite for Violin and Pianoforte, Op. 6 and Britten's arrangement for the first Aldeburgh Festival of There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook composed by his teacher Frank Bridge, and heard on disc here for the first time. Further world premieres include the substantial Introduction and Allegro for piano trio, The Moon for violin and piano and Allegro for solo piano.
Britten's Opus 1, the Sinfonietta - heard here in its rarely-played original version - completes the programme, offering a glimpse into the lesser-known early, and often English pastoral, output of this celebrated composer. |
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ID: RES10170
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Type: CD
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Kolekce: Choral CollectionPodkolekce: Choir
The St Catharine's Girls' Choir, Cambridge & Edward Wickham (conductor)
Following on from their acclaimed recording debut on ‘Nova! Nova!’ shared with the college choir of St Catharine’s College, The Saint Catharine’s Girls’ Choir, make their solo debut with a full album of recent works for upper voices, with their director Edward Wickham.
Entitled Ave Maria after the two settings of this text by Rebecca Clarke and Cecilia McDowall recorded here, this disc consists almost entirely of world premiere recordings. Also featured is Kenneth Leighton’s Missa Cornelia and John Tavener’s challenging Missa Brevis alongside sacred works from Diana Burrell, Joanna Marsh and Judith Bingham. |
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ID: RES10168
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Type: CD
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Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Piano Trio
Rautio Piano Trio: Jane Gordon, violin / Victoria Simonsen, cello / Jan Rautio, piano
The Rautio Piano Trio make their Resonus Classics recording debut with a disc of three piano trios by Mozart - trios in B flat major, KV 502; in E major KV 542; and in G major, KV 564.
Becoming particularly well-known for presenting a wide range of the trio repertoire on both period and modern instruments, the Rautio Piano Trio perform here on period instruments - including a fortepiano that once belonged to the late Christopher Hogwood CBE. |
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