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Composer: VENABLES, Ian ((b. 1955)) |
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During the early 1980's Ian Venables studied composition with Richard Arnell, at Trinity College of Music,London. Since then he has forged a career as a composer, writing music in all genres. However, it is his work in 'Art Song' that has attracted the most attention. Some critics have even suggested that Venables is the 21st centuries answer to Gerald Finzi. He is certainly becoming one of the countries foremost song composers. His style is broadly romantic and largely tonal, coming as it does from the lyrical English tradition.
His/her life:
Born in 1955, Ian Venables spent his early childhood in Liverpool. He began formally to learn to play the piano at the age of ten, taking lessons from the distinguished teacher, Ronald Settle, at the Bluecoat Cambers. He later took organ lessons from Professor Ian Tracey, Liverpool Cathedral Organist., and Micael Flemming, at the Royal College of Church Music, Croydon. In 1978, he began his teaching career in London before moving to his current post in Worcester. |
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ID: NMCD160
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Endymion celebrates its 30th anniversary with a survey of new commissions from composers who have worked with the ensemble, from senior figures in British music - such as Anthony Payne, Simon Bainbridge and Simon Holt, and younger but established talents like Morgan Hayes and Dai Fujikura - to those at an early stage of their career, such as Joanna Bailie, James Weeks and Naomi Pinnock.
Endymion was formed in 1979 from a group of outstanding National Youth Orchestra students and retains most of its original players.
Endymion has been described as one of the few chamber groups as at home with Mozart as with Birtwistle.
Endymion’s Sound Census project has reached beyond the new pieces on this disc, to include primary and secondary school students in the London Boroughs of Westminster, Camden and Tower Hamlets. Seven Alevel and GCSE students created new pieces in close collaboration with Endymion players. |
| 28.00 eur Buy |
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ID: SIGCD112
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: 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. |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: SIGCD204
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Dante Quartet: Krysia Osostowicz, violin / Giles Francis, violin / Judith Busbridge, viola / Bernard Gregor-Smith, cello |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: SIGCD424
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
Ian Venables’ reputation as ‘one of the finest song composers of his generation’ (BBC Music Magazine) finds voice in this disc of premiere recordings of two of his substantial song cycles.
International baritone, Roderick Williams is joined by the Carducci String Quartet and pianist Graham J Lloyd in The Song of the Severn, a celebration of Venables’ home county of Worcestershire and The Pine Boughs Past Music, a poignant tribute to the poetic talents of Ivor Gurney.
Other songs include those with solo piano and arrangements by Graham J Lloyd, for string quartet. Each work highlights Venables’ gift of being able to take poetry to a higher level of appreciation and at the same time create works of lasting beauty. |
| 18.00 eur Temporarily out of stock |
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