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ID: SIGCD064 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Quartet Signum Classics are proud to release the Smith Quartet's debut disc on Signum Records - Different Trains. The disc contains three of Steve Reich's most inspiring works: Triple Quartet for three string quartets, Reich’s personal dedication to the late Yehudi Menuhin, Duet, and the haunting Different Trains for string quartet and electronic tape. |
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ID: SIGCD055 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Piano Signum Records is delighted to announce the debut disc of Cantabile - Lullabyes and Goodbyes. The disc has been long in preparation and is the first to be recorded by Cantabile since On the Tracks of the Comedian Harmonists.
Cantabile, are one of Britain’s longest- established vocal ensembles. Since they became widely known in the early nineteen-eighties they have mastered a wide array of musical styles and their flair for the stage continues to keep them in demand in theatres and cabaret as well as in concert halls and at festivals.
Cantabile - Richard Bryan, Robin Green, Mark Fleming, Michael Steffan, Malcolm Martineau (Piano) |
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ID: SIGCD204 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra Dante Quartet: Krysia Osostowicz, violin / Giles Francis, violin / Judith Busbridge, viola / Bernard Gregor-Smith, cello |
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ID: SIGCD224 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Violin |
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ID: SIGCD020 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble "Her Majesty lay upon her back, with one hand in the bed and the other without. The bishop kneeled down by her, and examined her first of her faith: and she so punctually answered all his several questions by lifting up her eyes and holding up her hand, as it was a comfort to all beholders. Then the good man told her plainly, what she was and what she was to come to, and though she had been long a great Queen here upon earth, yet shortly she was to yield an account of her stewardship to the King of Kings. Between one and two of the clock on Thursday morning, he brought me word the Queen was dead."
Thus wrote the queen’s cousin Sir Robert Carey, recording in his memoirs the events of March 23rd-24th 1603, and the end of an era in England’s history. Earlier, as Elizabeth I lay dying she called for her musicians to play around her bed so that “she may die gaily as she had lived, and that the horrors of death might be lessened; she heard the music tranquilly until her last breath”.
As the 400th anniversary of her death approaches, The Queen’s Goodnight commemorates the music of the court of Queen Elizabeth I. The queen’s professional musical establishment was in some ways more modest than that of her father, Henry VIII, but she brought together the finest talent in the land and created collections of consort, lute and keyboard music that is still renowned today.
charivari agréable demonstrate representative facets of this wonderful 16th century repertory. The pieces are selected with a passionate attention to detail and charivari agréable have included music that depicts the life of the queen: music from the court, an exhilarating depiction of a hunt, celebrations from the queen’s coronation and the moving laments on her death. |
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ID: SIGCD009 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble Artist track listing:
Susanne Heinrich: (a) treble viol (M.D. Attwood 1993, after B. Norman)
(b) tenor viol (M.D. Attwood 1993, after B. Norman)
(c) 6-string bass viol (M.D. Attwood 1991, after J. Rose)
Lynda Sayce: (d) Renaissance flute (L. Jones 1996)
(e) 7-course lute (M. Lowe 1998, after G. Gerle ca. 1580)
(f) chitarrone (D. Van Edwards 1987, after Tieffenbrucker III 1608)
Kah-Ming Ng: (g) chamber organ (V. Woodstock 1996)
(h) harpsichord (A. Garlick 1977, after I. Ruckers 1638)
Oliver Webber : (i) violin (A. Beavitt 1986, after Stradivari)
Susanna Pell: (j) 6-string bass viol (J. Julier 1992, after R. Meares)
Reiko Ichise: (k) 6-string bass viol (M.D. Attwood 1991, after J. Rose)
Jacob Heringman: (l) 4-course cittern (S. Barber 1994, late 16th-century style)
(m) 7-course lute (B. Hirst 1992, after Venere 1582)
Rupert Jennings: (n) Tenor voice |
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ID: SIGCD502 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Popular Classical Music Melodies The King's Singers
Countertenors: David Hurley and Robin Tyson
Tenor: Paul Phoenix
Baritones: Philip Lawson and Gabriel Crouch
Bass: Stephen Connolly
Guest Artists
Drum (track 2): Gary Lovenest
String quartet (track 25): Sally Jackson - violin, Claire Ashby - violin, Joel Hunter - viola, Chris Worsey - cello. |
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ID: SIGCD008 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble Orchestral transcriptions and chamber music by Jean-Baptiste Forqueray (1699-1782), taken from Pičces de viole (Paris 1747) and inspired in part by the Roman God, Jupiter
Charivari Agréable Simfonie:
Susanne Heinrich - Pardessus de Viole
Oliver Webber - Violon
Rachel Stott - Alto
Susanna Pell - Basse de Viole
Gareth Deats - Violoncelle
Lynda Sayce - Théorbe
Kah-Ming Ng - Clavecin |
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ID: NMCD161 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Viola Edwin Roxburgh, Lawrence Casserly, Dimitri Murrath - Edwin Roxburgh: Solos and Duos
Edwin Roxburgh’s Solos and Duos are inspired by the virtuosic skill of the performers featured on this recording. They are joined by the composer himself with Lawrence Casserley in 'At the Still Point of the Turning World...'. |
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ID: SIGCD032 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Recording Location: St. Andrew's Church, Toddington, Gloucestershire
Louis (c.1626-1661), François le Grand (1668-1733) and Armand-Louis (1727-1789) were the three most celebrated members of the distinguished Couperin family of musicians who flourished from the late 16th century until the middle of the 19th, holding a position of esteem parallel to that of the Bachs in Germany.
The Sultan and the Phoenix presents both masterpieces and rare gems from the Couperins and their contemporaries, all delivered with a rare insight by the ensemble charivari agréable. The programme presents an overview of the ensemble use of the viol in its various manifestations and stages of evolution in France. The Couperin dynasty offers a convenient chronological framework within which the viol could be heard in various guises: from a consort setting to a ‘pičces de clavecin en concerts’ configuration; from a six-string bass viol to a five-string hybrid ‘quinton’. Underpinning this programme is the historical practice of adaptation, transcription and arrangement with which French baroque music is replete.
Historical tradition is followed by the arrangement of some pieces by the players. Some involved direct transcription, such as the L. Couperin Pavan for a viol consort or the F. Couperin harpsichord piece for theorbo (in the style of de Visée, see above). Other pieces are left untouched, such as L. Couperin’s Fantaisies and Corrette’s Phénix, as well as the large-scale chamber works of Dornel and Couperin.
Charivari Agréable’s reputation as one of the most original ensembles in the period-instrument scene was recently articulated by the BBC Music Magazine, which noted that the ensemble “has carved something of a niche for itself in imaginative and well thought-out programming”, reasoning that its work is the fruit of both scholarly research and charismatic musicianship, a combination which puts it at the forefront of period-instrument ensembles.
This recording is refreshing and rewarding. Charivari Agréable is a rare combination with a distinct sound and sonority, displaying sincere empathy and love for the repertory they choose to record. |
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