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ID: JCL515
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Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Vocal and Piano
Kevin Kyle has been the recipient of numerous awards, was finalist in the 2004 Handel singing competition and made his proms debut in 2005 under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner. This recording on JCL gives Kevin Kyle the opportunity to show his diverse range and in his own words - “ …my voice is the means by which those composers and poets tell their stories through the medium of music, regardless of language”.
Kevin Kyle
Kevin is rapidly developing his career as an international singer and has performed throughout the UK and Europe for the Longborough Festival Opera, Carl Rosa Opera Company, Opera Works, the Early Music Company, Le Concert d’Astree and the Armonico Consor |
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ID: LIR004
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Organ CollectionSubkolektion: Organ
Popular organ repertoire on the new Letourneau organ in the chapel at the Tower of London. This is the first solo CD on the newly restored organ.
The present organ case in the Tower of London dates from 1699 when it was built under royal warrant by Bernhardt Schmidt for the Banqueting House, Whitehall. It was relocated several times, eventually coming to rest at the Tower’s chapel of St Peter ad Vincula. Over the following century it was rebuilt and enlarged on several occasions, and by 1999 this resulted in an organ some three times larger than that for which the original case had been designed. During the installation of this new organ by the Canadian organ builder Fernand Létourneau, the case was meticulously restored to its original dimensions and many decorative details were made to replace those lost over the centuries.
To show off this remarkable new instrument on its first commercial solo recording, Colm Carey has put together a wonderfully varied and attractive programme, first and foremost chosen to suit to the instrument’s character, but representing the best of British organ music as befits its location, and spanning 5 centuries.
A leading concert organist of the younger generation, Colm Carey offers a blend of fresh invention and technical finesse, establishing him as a remarkable and distinctive performer. Born in Ireland, Carey studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Nicholas Danby and David Titterington, where he read for a University of London BMus. He also gained the Dip.RAM, the Academy’s highest performance award, and later became Meaker Fellow. As winner of the prestigious Julius Isserlis Scholarship, he went on to study at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève with Lionel Rogg, where he won the ‘Premier Prix de Virtuosité avec Distinction’ on completion of his course. He subsequently came third and won the Audience Prize at the St. Albans International Competition.
Since then Colm has performed in France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Denmark, Canada, the USA, Australia and throughout Britain and Ireland. His repertoire embraces all the major traditions, from the French Classical School and the German Baroque to the great symphonic tradition of the nineteenth century, and as a keen exponent of contemporary music he has given first performances of new works by Lionel Rogg, Roderick Williams, Ruth Byrchmore and Andrew Johnstone. |
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ID: RRC1089
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Type: CD
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Kolektion: Choral CollectionSubkolektion: Choir
Anthems perfectly directed by Martin Neary, in the amazing acoustics of the
Abbey. |
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ID: SIGCD112
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Vocal and Piano
Andrew Kennedy performs Vaughan Williams’ great and innovative work, On Wenlock Edge, nearly one hundred years after its premiere performance in 1909. Written for tenor, piano and string quartet Williams explored a chamber combination previously unexplored by other English composers.
Followed by Ludlow & Teme and Songs of Eternity & Sorrow Op.36 by Ivor Gurney & Ian Venables, this disc provides the listener with renditions from three great English composers ranging from the late nineteenth- century to the present day, performed beautifully by Andrew Kennedy, Simon Crawford-Phillips & the Dante Quartet. |
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ID: SIGCD114
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Type: CD
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Kolektion: Organ CollectionSubkolektion: Organ
Following the success of Joseph Nolan’s appearance in Music for the Coronation of James II (SIGCD094), he returns to Signum with a solo disc of organ music, capturing music from some of the finest composers of the instrument. With J.S. Bach’s famous Passacaglia in C Minor to Noel Rawsthorne’s Dance Suite, (with inspiration from Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance) this disc certainly pushes the boundaries of organ music.
Fresh from a tour of the USA in 2007, Nolan has found international recognition as well as his commitments as organist at Her Majesty’s Chapels Royal where he was appointed in 2004. |
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ID: SIGCD128
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Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Vocal and Piano
The initial impetus for Songs of Innocence came from Andrew Swait who was extremely keen to investigate repertoire rarely sung by a treble; indeed, several of the songs featured are world premiere recordings.
After rehearsals with Andrew Plant in the summer of 2007, Andrew Swait’s immense enthusiasm for Britten’s unpublished student works was soon evident and is as evident in this fresh recording a year on. A wonderful collaboration of English and American 20th century song.
A chorister of Cheltenham College and former chorister of the Abbey School Tewkesbury, Andrew Swait (b.1994) has already enjoyed an extremely successful solo career, performing as principal soloist on Light of the World (SIGCD068) in 2005 and appearing as a soloist with choirs around Britain and Europe. |
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ID: SIGCD267
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Kolektion: Choral CollectionSubkolektion: Choir
Following a string of five-star reviews for their previous discs of 20th-century French choral music (Poulenc’s Figure Humaine - SIGCD197) and Renaissance polyphony (Victoria’s Requiem Mass - SIGCD248), the professional chamber-choir Tenebrae go from strength to strength with this new recording of British partsongs and choral music - centered on Hubert Parry’s Songs of Farewell.
Composed towards the end of Parry’s life, the Songs of Farewell have taken on something of an epithetical interpretation; they are almost a musical summation of his compositional life, reflecting Parry’s love of English renaissance madrigals and partsongs as much as the influence on his work from German composers like Brahms - made more complicated as these works were composed as the country (and its music) fell out of favour at the start of the Great War. This disc also includes works by Tavener, Sullivan, Holst, Rodney Bennett, Howells, Elgar and Vaughan Williams. |
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ID: SIGCD447
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1. Lisa lân
Pan fyddwyn rhodio gyda’r hwyr 2 ;49
Anonymous - traditional, arr. Geoffrey Webber (b?) English
Eloise Irving (soprano), Matthew Vine (tenor)
2. The blue bird Op 119 No 3
The lake lay blue below the hill 3:59
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) English
Philippa Murray (soprano)
3. The banks of my own lovely Lee
Oh how oft do my thoughts in their fancy take flight 5:50
Anonymous - traditional, arr. Geoffrey Webber (b?) English
Philippa Murray (soprano), Matthew Vine (tenor)
4. She moved thro' the Fair
My own love said to me, My mother won't mind 3:23
Anonymous - traditional, arr. Toby Young (b1990) English
Clara Kanter (alto), Francis Brett (bass)
5. Lay a garland 4:38
Robert Lucas Pearsall (1795-1856) English
6. Sweet Kitty
As he was a-riding and a-riding one day 3:20
Anonymous - traditional, arr. Geoffrey Webber (b?) English
Philippa Murray (soprano), Matthew Vine (tenor)
7. Suo gân
Hunan blentyn, ar fy mynwes 3:11
Anonymous - traditional, arr. Toby Young (b1990) English
Eloise Irving (soprano), Guy Simcock (tenor)
8. I love my love
Abroad as I was walking, one evening in the spring (No 5 of Six Choral Folksongs, H136) 4:29
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) English
9. Dadl dau
Trigai gwraig bur gysglyd gynt 1:20
Anonymous - traditional, arr. Geoffrey Webber (b?) English
10. Now is the month of Maying 2:07
Thomas Morley (1557/8-1602) English
11. An rosen Wyn
My agaran rosen wyn mar whek mar dek del dyfhy 5:10
Anonymous - traditional, arr. Christopher Monks
12. Greensleeves
Alas, my love, ye do me wrong 3:28
Anonymous - Renaissance, arr. Geoffrey Webber (b?) English
Francis Brett (bass), Philippa Murray (soprano)
13. Loch Lomond
By yon bonny banks and yon bonny braes 3:24
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) English
Matthew Vine (tenor)
14. O love, 'tis a calm starry Night 2:59
Anonymous - traditional, arr. Patrick Hadley (1899-1973) English
15. The wraggle taggle gypsies, O!
There were three gypsies a-come to my door 2:03
Anonymous - traditional, arr. Geoffrey Webber (b?) English
A celebration of music spanning the length and breadth of the British Isles, featuring mesmerising new arrangements of some of the most beautiful tunes ever written. |
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ID: SIGCD486
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Music for violin and piano by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Lutosławski & Wieniawski
Grieg:
Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45
Lutosławski:
Subito, for violin & piano
Vaughan Williams:
The Lark Ascending
Wieniawski:
Fantaisie brillante on themes from Gounod's Faust, Op. 20
Julia Hwang (violin) & Charles Matthews (piano) |
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ID: TPDVD106
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Type: DVD
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Kolektion: DocumentarySubkolektion: Biography Movie
Actors: Thomas Allen, Jill Balcon, Barbara Dickson, English Chamber Orchestra, Brian Kay
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Tony Palmer Films
DVD Release Date: February 26, 2008
Run Time: 148 minutes
The first ever full-length film biography of the great composer, produced by the multi-award winning director, Tony Palmer.
The Last Ever Interview with Ursula Vaughan Williams
Tony Palmer's film is now complete. Undoubtedly controversial it will also be very important in raising awareness of RVW. Two and a half hours long, it looks at Vaughan Williams' life as a disturbed and frustrated one. Powerful with some harrowing imagery, the film firmly dispels the myth that VW was a cuddly folk song collector and recycler who was affectionately known as "Uncle Ralph". As well as exploring his musical legacy, Palmer also focuses on the human side of VW. His frustration at living in a cosy market town, looking after an invalid wife (which he did devotedly) and the fury as well as the kindness and humanity which were all features of his remarkable character and which in their turn affected his music. The music passages are superbly played and filmed.
Performance Credits
The National Orchestra of Hungarian Radio - (Films) - Participant
The National Youth Orchestra - (Films) - Participant
Adrian Boult - (Films)(Music) - Participant
Nicola Benedetti - (Films) - Participant
The Archbishop of Canterbury - - Participant
Jordi Savall - Participant
The BBC Chorus - Participant
Stephen Jackson Chorus Master
Anna Stéphany - Participant
Simon Keenlyside - Participant
Joan Rodgers - Participant
Martin Carthy - Participant
Eliza Carthy - Participant
Harrison Birtwistle - Participant
English Chamber Orchestra - Participant
London Philharmonic Orchestra - Participant
Gloucester Cathedral Choir - Participant
John Adams - Participant
Neil Tennant - Participant
Richard Thompson - Participant
Mark-Anthony Turnage - Participant
Michael Kennedy - Participant
Roy Douglas - Participant
David Willcocks - Participant
Lady Barbirolli - Participant
Kiffer Finzi - Participant
Imogen Holst - Participant
Michael Tippett - Participant
Lord Armstrong - Participant
Bill Llewellyn - Participant
Milo Keynes - Participant
André Previn - Participant
Brian Kay - Participant
Stephen Johnson - Participant
Jerrold Northrop Moore - Participant
Hervey Fisher - Participant
Jill Balcon - Participant
John Amis - Participant
John Noble - Participant
Tom Allen - Participant
Barbara Dickson - Participant
Sarah Walker - Participant
Hugh Cobbe - Participant
Ursula Vaughan Williams - Participant
Sian Edwards - Conductor
Andrew Nethsingha - Conductor
Tamas Vasary - Conductor
Technical Credits
Tony Palmer Director, Editor
Kim Peat Executive Producer |
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