|
World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
|
|
|
Composer: ELIAS, Brian ((b. 1948)) |
| |
|
ID: NMCD025 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble A celebration of the unique contribution to contemporary music of this outstanding artist who, over the past 35 years, has given more than 350 world premieres: this collection includes songs by Anthony Payne, Brian Elias and Alison Bauld, plus Judith Weir's tribute to Chagall ('Don't let that horse') and Anthony Gilbert's quirky Beastly Jingles. |
22.00 eur Buy |
|
ID: NMCD057 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: Piano 50 short pieces for piano by 30 of Britain's leading composers |
28.00 eur Buy |
|
ID: NMCD064 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Subcollection: Orchestra Elias's acclaimed settings of the anguished poetry of exiled Russian author Irina Ratushinskaya are coupled with Laments, which sets traditional folk texts of loss and mourning in the nearly extinct Sicilian-Greek dialect, Grico |
22.00 eur Buy |
|
ID: NMCD069 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Subcollection: Orchestra 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. |
22.00 eur Buy |
|
ID: NMCD098 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Piano Madeleine Mitchell's violin recital with reknowned accompanist Andrew Ball ranges from the lyrical minimalism of Michael Nyman's On the Fiddle, and folk-influenced pieces by Stephen Montague and Stuart Jones, to the strongly-crafted Fantasia by Brian Elias, and the extraordinary effects of Nigel Osborne's new solo violin piece, Taw-Raw, which Mitchell premiered at the Huddersfield Festival in 2004.
The CD is supported by the Royal College of Music, the RVW Trust and the American Embassy, London. |
22.00 eur Buy |
|
ID: NMCD160 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
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 |
|
ID: NMCD173 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Brian Elias studied at London’s Royal College of Music with Humphrey Searle and Bernard Stevens and privately with Elisabeth Lutyens.
Brian was born in Bombay (Mumbai) and lived there until the age of thirteen.
His ballet The Judas Tree won an Olivier Award for Best New Dance Work and an International Emmy Award for Performing Arts.
Doubles was awarded the Best Orchestral prize at the 2010 British Composer Awards 2010 ‘Purely as psychodrama, The House is gripping. But what makes it really memorable is the clarity and vigour of Elias's orchestral writing. Humming throughout with perky rhythms, never cluttered, and full of imaginative ideas (including the 21st-century equivalent of the Pizzicato Polka), it struck me as among the best things that the 53-year old composer has penned.’ The Times (2002).
The bold and dazzlingly inventive The House That Jack Built - inspired by the rumbustiousness, games and jeers of the playground - is coupled with the elaborate, intense Doubles (a large orchestral work commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra) and A Talisman, for bass-baritone and small orchestra which is based upon Hebrew text inscribed on a silver 19th century amulet - intended to protect against the Evil Eye - which was given to Elias's mother in 1969 by her uncle, whose family emigrated from Kurdistan to Bombay in the middle of the 19th century. |
22.00 eur Buy |
|
ID: NMCD235 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Elias, B:
Geranos
Psappha, Nicholas Kok
Meet me in the Green Glen
Roderick Williams (baritone) & Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
Once did I breathe another's breath
Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Electra Mourns
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) & Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais)
Britten Sinfonia, Clark Rundell |
22.00 eur Buy |
|
|