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ID: SIGCD202
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Subcollection: Christmas Music
Royal Scottish National Orchestra & RSNO Junior Chorus, Christopher Bell
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s Christmas Concert, which takes place every December with performances in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen, is for many one of the highlights of the festive season.
This disc is a sample of the very best of these concerts, from well-loved family favourites - Twelve Days of Christmas, Jingle Bells - to the unique lesser-known works that make this event so consistently popular, such as Christmas Alphabet and The Penguin Song (which includes dance moves in the CD Booklet and above…) |
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ID: SIGCD225
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Choir
The Temple Church Choir is considered to be one or the finest choirs in London, a reputation it quckly gained after its founding in 1831. Their debut CD with Signum Classics displays a range of fine sacred works written by English composers between the 17th Century and the present day.
The Temple Church is one of the most historic and beautiful churches in London. Situated between Fleet Street and the Thames Embankment, its recorded musical history extends back to its restoration in 1841, although a church has stood on the site for over 800 years.
The modern choir is comprised of 18 boy choristers and 12 professional choirmen - an excellent opportunity for the choristers who receive singing and theory tuition as well as generous scholarships towards their education. The programme explores three fascinating and contrasting settings of the Te Deum: A stalwart of the church liturgy (first conceived as far back as AD 387), these settings span over 300 years of English music history, composed respectively in 1694 (Purcell), 1897 (Elgar) and 1944 (Howells).
This disc is complemented by the release of James Vivian’s English Organ Music from the Temple Church, also released this month. |
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ID: SIGCD228
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Another highlight of Scotland’s musical life comes from the National Youth Choir of Scotland (NYCoS) National Girls Choir.
Joined by Claire Jones, the official harpist to HRH The Prince of Wales, Christopher Bell leads performances of Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, An English Day Book - an exciting rarity by English composer Elizabeth Poston, and two contemporary works by Scottish composer Oliver Iredale Searle and Irish composer Stephen Deazley. |
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ID: SIGCD239
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
TIain Burnside and Ailish Tynan return to Signum with their second disc of Irish Songs and arrangements - this time from a range of different 20th Century composers.
Although all of the sung texts stem from Irelands rich heritage of literature (including poems from W.B. Yeats, Thomas Moore and James Joyce), the composers featured here have a more transatlantic feel, with works by John Cage and Samuel Barber programmed alongside others by Benjamin Britten and Herbert Hughes.
This disc continues Burnside’s series of recital discs with Signum - in particular his 2007 disc with Ailish Tynan of Irish songs by Herbert Hughes, A Purse of Gold (SIGCD106):
“The word 'arrangement' as Burnside suggests, doesn't do justice to the inventive piano writing and pacing of so many of these pieces ... Soprano Ailish Tynan's feeling for the musical idiom and, above all, the poetry of her countrymen, matched by Burnside's delightfully poetic pianism, prove irresistible. Highly recommended" - 5 Stars
Classic FM Magazine |
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ID: SIGCD274
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano and Cello
Jamie Walton and Daniel Grimwood continue their performance partnership with this recording of sonatas for cello and piano by Shostakovich, Britten and Prokofiev. Both Walton and Grimwood are accomplished performers who regularly work together both on disc and in concert, as well as being highly active in the wider musical world. A recent highlight for Walton is his North York Moors Chamber Music Festival (where both he and Grimwood performed), which was nominated for a Royal Philharmonic society award in 2011. |
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ID: SIGCD336
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Suite No. 1, Op. 72 (1964)
1. Canto primo: Sostenuto e largamente [2.08]
2. I. Fuga: Andante moderato [3.54]
3. II. Lamento: Lento rubato [2.15]
4. Canto secundo: Sostenuto [1.07]
5. III. Serenata: Allegretto (pizzicato) [2.10]
6. IV. Marcia: Alla marcia moderato [3.24]
7. Canto terzo: Sostenuto [1.46]
8. V. Bordone: Moderato quasi recitativo [2.29]
9. VI. Moto perpetuo e Canto quarto: Presto [2.55]
Suite No. 2, Op. 80 (1967)
10. I. Declamato: Largo [3.07]
11. II. Fuga: Andante [3.48]
12. III. Scherzo: Allegro molto [1.47]
13. IV. Andante lento [4.18]
14. V. Ciaccona: Allegro [6.25]
Suite No. 3, Op. 87 (1971, rev. 1974)
15. I. Introduzione: Lento [1.50]
16. II. Marcia: Allegro [1.28]
17. III. Canto: Con moto [1.01]
18. IV. Barcarola: Lento [1.15]
19. V. Dialogo: Allegretto [1.40]
20. VI. Fuga: Andante espressivo [2.09]
21. VII. Recitativo: Fantastico [1.02]
22. VIII. Moto perpetuo: Presto [0.50]
23. IX. Passacaglia: Lento solenne [3.37]
24. (molto simplice) [3.26]
25. Tema ‘Sacher’ (1976) [1.22]
Total timings: [61.16]
Joining several discs from Signum celebrating 2013's Britten Centenary Year comes a new collection of the three Suites for Solo Cello, performed by star UK cellist Jamie Walton. Recorded in the Britten Studio at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, the three suites were dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich, with the passionate third in particular inspired by Rostropovich’s rich and romantic performances of Bach’s unaccompanied suites.
Jamie Walton has established a reputation as a performer who deeply engages with the works he performs and records. Earlier this year he released a new recording of cello concertos by Schumann and Dvorak with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy. |
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ID: SIGCD340
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Choir
Christopher Maltman
Gabrieli Consort & Players
Gabrieli Young Singers' Scheme
John Mark Ainsley
Paul McCreesh
Susan Gritton
Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir
CD1 - 37.20
1. REQUIEM AETERNAM 10.17
REQUIEM AETERNAM Chorus
TE DECET HYMNUS Boys
REQUIEM AETERNAM Chorus
WHAT PASSING-BELLS Tenor
KYRIE ELEISON Chorus
2. DIES IRAE 27.03
DIES IRAE Chorus
BUGLES SANG Baritone
LIBER SCRIPTUS Soprano & Chorus
OUT THERE, WE,VE WALKED Tenor & Baritone
RECORDARE Chorus
CONFUTATIS Chorus
BE SLOWLY LIFTED UP Baritone
DIES IRAE Chorus
LACRIMOSA Soprano & Chorus | MOVE HIM INTO THE SUN Tenor
PIE JESU Chorus
CD2 - 46.45
1. OFFERTORIUM 9.35
DOMINE JESU CHRISTE Boys
SED SIGNIFIER SANCTUS MICHAEL Chorus
SO ABRAM ROSE Tenor & Baritone | HOSTIAS E PRECES Boys
QUAM OLIM ABRAHAE Chorus
2. SANCTUS 10.19
SANCTUS Soprano & Chorus
AFTER THE BLAST Baritone
3. AGNUS DEI 3.49
ONE EVER HANGS Tenor | AGNUS DEI Chorus
4. LIBERA ME 23.02
LIBERA ME Soprano & Chorus
IT SEEMED THAT OUT OF BATTLE I ESCAPED Tenor & Baritone
LET US SLEEP NOW… Tenor & Baritone | IN PARADISUM Boys, Soprano & Chorus
REQUIESCANT IN PACE Chorus
TOTAL RUNNING TIME 84.05
Following their acclaimed recordings of Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts and Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Paul McCreesh has once again assembled the mass forces of Gabrieli Consort & Players and Wrocaw Phiharmonic Choir to record one of the iconic masterpieces of the twentieth-century oratorio repertoire.
The work reflects Britten’s long-held and committed pacifist beliefs. Composed to mark the consecration of a new Cathedral in Coventry, Britten combines the Latin text of the Missa pro Defunctis with nine poems by the First World War poet Wilfred Owen, which vide a moving (and frequently uncomfortable) commentary on the liturgical text. |
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ID: SIGCD348
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Opera
Alan Oke
Alexandra Hutton
Britten-Pears Orchestra
Catherine Wyn-Rogers
Charles Rice
Charmian Bedford
Chorus Of Opera North
Chorus Of The Guildhall School Of Music & Drama
Christopher Gillett
David Kempster
Gaynor Keeble
Giselle Allen
Henry Waddington
Robert Murray
Stephen Richardson
Steuart Bedford
2CD SET
CD1
Prologue
[1] Peter Grimes (Hobson, Swallow, Peter) 1.32
[2] You sailed your boat round the coast
(Swallow, Peter, Mrs. Sedley, Hobson, Ellen,
Chorus) 3.20
[3] Peter Grimes, I here advise you (Swallow,
Hobson, Peter, Chorus) 2.10
[4] The truth - the pity - and the truth (Peter,
Ellen) 1.55
[5] Interlude I: Dawn 2:47
ACT I
Scene 1
[6] Oh, hang at open doors (Auntie, Boles,
Balstrode, Chorus) 4.21
[7] Good morning, good morning! (Rector,
Nieces, Mrs. Sedley, Ned, Swallow, Auntie,
Boles, Balstrode, Chorus) 1.05
[8] Hi! Give us a hand (Peter, Boles, Balstrode,
Ned, Auntie, Hobson) 3.22
[9] I’ll have to go from pub to pub (Hobson,
Ellen, Ned, Chorus) 1.54
[10] Let her among you without fault (Ellen,
Hobson, Mrs. Sedley, Ned) 3.00
[11] Look! The storm cone! (Balstrode, Ned,
Boles, Chorus) 2.35
[12] And do you prefer the storm (Balstrode,
Peter) 3.24
[13] They listen to money (Peter, Balstrode) 1.35
[14] What harbour shelters peace (Peter) 1.02
[15] Interlude II: Storm 4.05
Scene 2
[16] Past time to close (Auntie, Mrs. Sedley,
Balstrode, Boles, Nieces) 2.22
[17] Loud man (Auntie, Nieces, Mrs. Sedley)
1.00
[18] There’s been a landslide up the coast
(Fisherman, Boles, Balstrode, Auntie) 0.59
[19] No, I mean love (Boles, Balstrode, Chorus)
0.32
[20] Pub conversation should depend (Balstrode,
Chorus) 1.19
[21] Have you heard the cliff is down (Ned,
Auntie, Mrs. Sedley, Chorus) 1.34
[22] Now the Great Bear and Pleiades (Peter,
Nieces, Boles, Balstrode, Auntie, Chorus) 3.34
[23] For peace sake (Balstrode, Peter) 2.29
[24] The bridge is down (Hobson, Ned, Ellen,
Boles, Auntie, Nieces, Peter) 1.27
ACT II
[25] Interlude III: Sunday Morning 2.26
Scene 1
[26] Glitter of waves (Ellen) 1.29
[27] Now that the daylight fills the sky (Ellen,
Rector, Chorus) 3.39
[28] Child you’re not too young (Ellen, Rector,
Peter, Chorus) 3.11
[29] This unrelenting work (Ellen, Peter, Chorus)
4.18
[30] Fool to let it come to this (Auntie, Ned,
Boles, Mrs. Sedley, Balstrode, Swallow, Nieces,
Rector, Chorus) 3.13
[31] People ... No! I will speak! (Boles,
Balstrode, Rector, Auntie, Ellen, Chorus) 2.09
Total time - 73.32
CD2
ACT II
Scene 1 (continued)
[1] We planned that their lives (Ellen, Rector,
Mrs. Sedley, Boles, Ned, Nieces, Auntie,
Balstrode, Hobson, Swallow, Chorus) 2.15
[2] Shall we go and see Grimes in his hut?
(Rector, Swallow, Balstrode, Mrs. Sedley, Boles,
Chorus) 0.47
[3] Now gossip is put on trial (Chorus) 2.02
[4] From the gutter (Nieces, Auntie, Ellen) 4.01
[5] Interlude IV: Passacaglia 5.29
Scene 2
[6] Go there (Peter) 1.54
[7] They listen to money (Peter) 5.02
[8] Now! Now! (Peter, Chorus) 2.09
[9] Peter Grimes (Rector, Swallow, Ned) 2.50
ACT III
[10] Interlude V: Moonlight 3.39
Scene 1
[11] Assign your prettiness to me (Swallow,
Nieces, Ned) 3.12
[12] Mr. Keene (Mrs. Sedley, Ned) 1.27
[13] Murder most foul it is (Mrs. Sedley, Ned) 1.24
[14] Come along, Doctor (Burgess, Burgesses,
Rector, Mrs. Sedley, Ellen, Balstrode) 2.43
[15] Embroidery in childhood was (Ellen,
Balstrode) 4.47
[16] Mr. Swallow (Mrs. Sedley, Auntie, Swallow,
Hobson) 1.55
[17] Who holds himself apart (Chorus) 3.27
[18] Interlude VI 2.08
Scene 2
[19] Grimes! (Voices, Peter) 5.09
[20] Peter, we’ve come to take you home (Ellen,
Peter, Balstrode) 2.23
[21] To those who pass the Borough (Swallow,
Fisherman, Auntie, Boles, Chorus) 5.13
Total time - 63.47
Britten’s powerful and masterful evocation of the North Sea in all its moods has to audiences all over the world become inextricably linked with the Aldeburgh that was home to George Crabbe (author of the ‘The Borough’ from which the story originates) in the eighteenth century and Britten in the twentieth.
Steuart Bedford leads a vast and accomplished ensemble on this new live recording, created shortly before the group’s unique staging of the work on the beach at Aldeburgh as part of the town’s world-renowned festival.
(Physical product booklet includes the full libretto to the opera, however this not available in the linked booklet below for copyright reasons.) |
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ID: SIGCD366
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir
Britten:
Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30
A Hymn to the Virgin
Prelude & Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria
Five Flower Songs, Op. 47
Mealor:
Five Songs of Praise and Devotion
Four Madrigals On Rose Texts: A Spotless Rose
Four Madrigals On Rose Texts: Lady, When I Behold The Roses Sprouting
Four Madrigals On Rose Texts: Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal
Four Madrigals On Rose Texts: Upon A Bank
Victoria:
Ecce sacerdos magnus
Anonymous:
Ecce sacerdos magnus
The Rodolfus Choir, Ralph Allwood |
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ID: SIGCD481
CDs: 1
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Subcollection: Choral and Organ
CHORAL MUSIC BY WILLIAM BYRD (1540-1623)
The Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge
Mark Williams Director
Led by Mark Williams, the Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge continue their critically-praised series of recordings on Signum with this new recording of works by British composers Britten and Byrd.
William Byrd and Benjamin Britten, their respective careers separated by about three hundred and fifty years, share one very significant characteristic. They were both, in quite different ways, outsiders.
As a devout Catholic existing within an alien environment - a state which ultimately viewed Catholicism as the equivalent of sedition - Byrd was obliged to pursue a kind of double life, expressing his spiritual exile in music of emotional intensity. Like Byrd, Britten became highly regarded by the establishment for his artistic achievements, but reservations regarding his homosexuality prevented his complete acceptance. Both his pacifism and his sexual orientation made him an outsider. |
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