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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: NMCD068 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Orchestral WorksPodkolekce: Orchestr Both Anthony Gilbert's brilliant woodwind writing and his long association with the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester are showcased on this disc, featuring performances by the RNCM's acclaimed New Ensemble and Wind Orchestra, and concluding with the brilliant and playful tribute to Stravinsky, Igorochki. |
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ID: NMCD074 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Podkolekce: Orchestr The first release in NMC's Ancora series features reissued recordings of oboe concerto Helios plus the darkly atmospheric Night Music and programmatic The Seasons, with a new BBC Symphony Orchesrta recording of Musgrave's tribute to Beethoven, Memento Vitae.
Helios, The Seasons and Night Music were originally released on Collins Classics.
Reissued with funding from Arts Council England.
"Unquestionably recommendable - Nicholas Daniel is a superb soloist. Performance***** Sound ****BBC Music Magazine 2003 |
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ID: NMCD069 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Orchestral WorksPodkolekce: Orchestr Both Anthony Gilbert's brilliant woodwind writing and his long association with the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester are showcased on this disc, featuring performances by the RNCM's acclaimed New Ensemble and Wind Orchestra, and concluding with the brilliant and playful tribute to Stravinsky, Igorochki. |
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ID: NMCD148 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Orchestral WorksPodkolekce: Orchestr Classic recording from the London Sinfonietta, previously released on Etcetera. (NMC makes another deleted disc permenently available.)
Secret Theatre explores Birtwistle’s fascination with ritual and takes its title from a Robert Graves poem.
Silbury Air is stark, menacing, and tense and named after the prehistoric mound Silbury Hill in England. |
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ID: NMCD071 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Orchestral WorksPodkolekce: Orchestr Four substantial orchestral works by John Woolrich: The Barber's Timepiece, inspired by a short story by Italo Calvino; the Oboe Concerto, featuring Nicholas Daniel; The Ghost in the Machine, which explores the idea of order sliding into chaos; and the Viola Concerto, which is structured as a cycle of 'songs without words', alluding to Tristan, Mozart's Idomeneo and Cosi fan tutte, Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte and madrigals by Monteverdi.
Editor's Choice: "A strong and individual voice in music of real substance. The fine soloists bring the concertos vividly to life. Well worth exploring."Gramophone 2001 |
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ID: NMCD137 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Orchestral WorksPodkolekce: Voices and Orchestra Judith Weir's major orchestral works. including Natural History, Forest and The Welcome Arrival of Rain
Weir’s music - often inspired by her love of nature and her interest in the world around her - is fresh, intelligent, approachable and evocative. Natural History - which she describes as a Taoist Carnival of the Animals-is set to ancient Chinese texts on horses, birds, fish and men and the music hints at an oriental and exotic world and in Moon and Star Weir uses the instruments highest and lowest registers to portray the vast expanse of our universe. |
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ID: NMCD073 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Orchestral WorksPodkolekce: Orchestr Britten's early score for Agatha Christie thriller Love From a Stranger is coupled with scores by Roberto Gerhard - for Lindsay Anderson's intense 1963 drama This Sporting Life - Richard Rodney Bennett's lush, romantic score to The Return of the Soldier, and Elisabeth Lutyens' superlatively creepy music for 60s horror film The Skull. |
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ID: NMCD088 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Orchestral WorksPodkolekce: Orchestr While I Am Goya, The Sickle and Remembering Esenin share a common inspiration in Russian poetry of the last century, the Flute Concerto provides a contrast in its neo-Baroque concerto grosso style.
These recordings were originally released on Unicorn-Kanchana in 1983.
Reissued with funding from Arts Council England. |
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ID: NMCD121 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Podkolekce: Orchestr Book of Hours combines ensemble and live electronics in a tribute to the glories of late medieval art; it uses electronic sound as (in the composer's words) "an extra colour … rather as gold-leaf might be applied in a Medieval manuscript".
This exploration of other times and sound-worlds is continued in Eden, Four American Choruses and Symphony (inspired by a painting of Lake Keitele in Finland); the disc is completed by Imagin'd Corners, an exuberant showpiece for five horns and orchestra.
Note on Recording (Track 9 "noise")
We would like to point out that the crackling noise present on track 2 of Book of Hours (track 9 of the album) is intentional. The composer's idea was to begin Part 2 of the work as a distorted version of Part 1 (track 8). Julian Anderson has explained to us that he is recreating - with electronics - the surface noise of LPs bought in Eastern Europe before the fall of the Berlin Wall (he has a strong interest in Eastern European music).
1- City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/ Martyn Brabbins, conductor
2, 7 - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/ Sakari Oramo, conductor
3, 4, 5, 6 - City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus/ Simon Halsey, conductor
8, 9 - Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/ Oliver Knussen, conductor |
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ID: NMCD037S Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Orchestral WorksPodkolekce: Orchestr An evocation of the Big Bang, the music of Time's Arrow traces the expansion and contraction of the universe. Vivid rhythmic invention and glowing harmony contribute to a work of uninhibited and exhilarating momentum. |
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