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ID: MSVCD92033
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Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
James Clapperton is a highly regarded pianist and composer, born in Scotland. Highly influenced at first by Ferneyhough, Finnissy and Xenakis his music has developed in a softer, more approachable and individual style which is at once "modern" and "romantic" in that it paints musical pictures and epicts programmes of personal and historic subjects. Ideal for those wanting to delve into modern repertoire without the extremes of modernism.
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(all by James Clapperton):
Long Journey Back
The Ressoning betuire Aige an Yowth
Steven's Piano Book
Mikhashoffschina
Hear
Michael's Piano Book
The Testament of Cresseid
Two North East Songs |
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ID: MSVCD92041
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Flute
The trio (Laura Bailie, Janet Larsson and Ruth Morley) are joined by percussionist Tim Williams on this disc of chamber music by four very different composers with individual takes on contemporary music. This is a unique and wonderful sound unlike any other in modern music.
tracks: Thea Musgrave: Voices from the Ancient World Gordon McPherson: Three Minute Philosophy Edward McGuire: Celtic Knotwork Django Bates: Bird Tableau |
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ID: MSVCD92040
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Quintet
Cutting-edge contemporary music for both chamber ensembles and solo instruments by this highly individualistic and well-regarded composer.
Alwynne Pritchard was born in Glasgow in 1968. Encouraged by her father, the composer Gwyn Pritchard, she began composing as a teenager and went on to study composition with Robert Saxton at the Guildhall School of Music, and later with Justin Connolly and Michael Finnissy at the Royal Academy of Music where she was awarded many prizes for her work. She has since been distinguished by critics for her "strong, spare language" and "restrained eloquence".
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Piano Quintet: Barbara Allen Der Glücklose Engel Spring (solo piano) Nostos Ou Topos (solo guitar) Matrix (solo violin) Der Zwerg (solo piano) Kit (voice & guitar) Invisible Cities (solo piano)
Topologies, a contemporary chamber music group founded by pianist Ian Pace, is at the leading edge of the modern music scene in Great Britain and appears on a number of Metier CDs.
The personnel varies with the music being recorded, and includes:
Guy Cowley (clarinet), Christopher Redgate (oboe), Ian Pace (piano), Nancy Ruffer (flutes), Julian Warburton (percussion), Andrew McNeill (saxophone), Philip Gibbon (bassoon), Darragh Morgan and Chris George (violins), Bridget Carey (viola), Betsy Taylor (cello), Alan Thomas (guitar) and Mikel Toms (conductor) |
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ID: MSVCD92039
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
In the days when serious composers wrote good music for children to play, sing or just to appreciate, many minor classics were penned. Mussorgsky's "The Nursery" is such and the British songs here, settings of masterpieces of prose by A A Milne and Kipling among others, are also of the highest standard, one or two having become ingrained in the memories of a generation.
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Thea Musgrave (wds M. Lindsay):
"A Suite o' Bairnsangs":
The Man in the Moon
Daffodils
Willie Webster
A Child's Prayer at Night
The Cherry Tree
Harold Fraser-Simson (wds a a milne):
Halfway Down
Disobedience
The King's Breakfast
Sneezies
Bad Sir Brian
The Emperor's Rhyme
At the Zoo
The Christening
The Four Friends
Missing
Twice Times
Wind on the Hill
Buckingham Palace
If I were King
Lines and Squares
Market Square
Edward German (wds R Kipling):
When the Cabin Portholes
The First Friend
The Camel's Hump
I keep Six Honest Serving Men
There was never a Queen like Balkis
Rolling down to Rio
Modest Mussorgsky: "The Nursery":
With Nanny
In the Corner
The Beetle
With the Doll
Bedtime Prayer
Sailor the Cat
Riding the Hobbyhorse |
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ID: MSVCD92038
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Powers is a composer who knows his own language; a pupil of the legendary Nadia Boulanger, his works have been consistently praised. He is a compsoer with something to say. This CD presents five major works, in reverse chronological order: a journey back in time in the composer's music.
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Fast Colours (1997) Double Sonata (1993) In Sunlight (1993) Quintet (1983) Another part of the Island (1980)
PSAPPHA: Ensemble flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano |
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ID: MSVCD92043
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Composer Jane Wells says that much of her music is inspired by projects with specific communities for special occasions - hence the title of the CD. Ultramarine and Wherever Next started out as music with dance. Wells's music is "of many moods" because of this, and has a life not just in itself but in the circumstances and events from which it was conceived.
Pieces written as a student (her composition teachers included Jonathan Harvey) were first performed at London venues in Society for the Promotion of New Music concerts. Commissions such as Composition for clarinet quintet followed (also broadcast on Radio 3) as well as various pieces composed for dance which were performed at the ICA, Riverside Studios, regional festivals, abroad and on Channel 4 TV (‘…set to a witty score for oboe and dripping water…’ New York Times).
She left London in 1987 to become composer/musician-in-residence at a small arts centre on the North Norfolk coast and wrote In These Places which was performed by John Harle with the County Youth Orchestra at St Andrews Hall, Norwich. Other large-scale pieces have included To the Turning of the Millennium (for baritone, children’s choir, small ensemble and tape), Here’s What I Saw (a half-evening of music-theatre) and Playing The Game for symphony orchestra premiered in Chelmsford.
A mid-length CD of five small-scale pieces played by the Composers Ensemble is available on the Metier label (‘an engaging saxophone solo…a splendid miniature cantata…’ Tempo magazine). Time Song (for counter-tenor, recorder and ‘cello) is included on the CD, ‘Pied Piper’, released in 2009 on the Campion Cameo label. Her composing takes place in the context of a busy programme of community music project- leading with people of many ages and abilities.
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Ultramarine
People and Places
One to Another
Wherever Next
Monday's Child
Richard Addinson (Alto Saxophone)
Jane Atkins (Viola)
Kate Lucas (Flute)
Philip Sheppard (Cello)
Mary Wiegold (Soprano)
Richard Addinson (Tenor Saxophone)
Catherine Edwards (Piano)
Duncan Prescott (Soprano Saxophone) |
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ID: MSVCD92042
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano
Two young composers with very contrasted sound-worlds,but brought together in the piano pieces on this album - the fascination of many composers from early days to the present with musical mechanisms (such as the "metronome march" in Beethoven's Eighth Symphony). This CD with a variety of works for different instruments is a good introduction to contemporary music.
tracks: PAUL ARCHBOLD: Études en mouvement Peter Hill (piano) Of Crossed Destinies Hugh Webb (harp) Pas de Deux Bridget Carey (viola) & Peter Hill (piano) Disenchanted Voices Francesca Henry (flute), Bridget Carey (viola), Hugh Webb (harp) FABRICE FITCH: Filigranes pour les Frères Limbourg Ensemble Exposé Structures en Bronze Barrie Webb (trombone), Julian Warburton (percussion) Three Pieces from "Wind-Up" Peter Hill (piano) |
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ID: MSVCD92050
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Michael Finnissy is amongst the most celebrated of contemporary British composers and his music is featured on many of our CDs. This selection of works for chamber group and solo instruments written between 1977 and 1990 displays both his formidable talents and those of Topologies. These pieces are inspired by the disappearing musical cultures in places affected by ethnic cleansing (Kurdestan and Azerbaijan) and "discredited" musical styles such as free jazz and expressionism.
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Dilok (oboe & percussion) Delal (oboe d'amore & percussion) Kulamen Dilan (soprano sax & percussion) Moon's goin' down (solo oboe) Runnin' wild (solo oboe) Keroiylu (oboe, bassoon & piano) Lost Lands (sax, clarinet, violin, guitar, piano)
Topologies, a contemporary chamber music group founded by pianist Ian Pace, is at the leading edge of the modern music scene in Great Britain and appears on a number of Metier CDs.
The personnel varies with the music being recorded, and includes:
Guy Cowley (clarinet), Christopher Redgate (oboe), Ian Pace (piano), Nancy Ruffer (flutes), Julian Warburton (percussion), Andrew McNeill (saxophone), Philip Gibbon (bassoon), Darragh Morgan and Chris George (violins), Bridget Carey (viola), Betsy Taylor (cello), Alan Thomas (guitar) and Mikel Toms (conductor) |
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ID: MSVCD92049
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Quintet
NIcholas Sackman's music is not limited by particular stylistic lines but within the freedom of contemporary expression uses traditional qualities of harmony, pitch and rhythm to engage with the performer and listener. More simply, just really good music.
tracks: Scorpio (percussion & piano -1995) Mathew Dickinson (percussion); Mervyn Cooke (piano) Time-piece (brass quintet - 1983, rev, 2002) Fine Arts Brass Quintet Cross Hands (piano -2002) Costas Fotopoulos Koi (flute quartet - 1999) Carla Rees, Carolyn Hope, Jane Stevens, Emma Willams (flutes) Sonata for Trombone and Piano (1986, rev. 1999) Simon Hogg (trombone), Charles Matthews (Piano) Wind Sextet (2000) Carla Ress (flute), Helen Barker (oboe), Emily Sutcliffe (clarinet), John Barker (saxophone), Oliver Fitzgerald-Lombard (horn), Adam Treverton-Jones (bassoon) |
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ID: MSVCD92046
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble
Sue Anderson (mezzo-soprano), Nicolas Hodges (piano), Nancy Ruffer (flutes), Corrado Canonici (double bass), Andrew Sparling (bass clarinet), Julian Warburton (percussion)
All the works on this disc, according to the composer Justin Connolly, are explorations of images of darkness. They include "Nocturnal" a set of sea-pictures, and "Scardanelli Dreams", which "charts the motion of a great spirit, not dimmed, but which illuminates the darkness in which it finds itself."
tracks: Sonatina no. 2 - Ennead, op. 26 Nocturnal, op. 33 Tesserae F: "Domination in Black", op. 15f Scardanelli Dreams, op. 37 |
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