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Composer: MATTHEWS, Colin ((b. 1946)) |
| His/her life: Is an English composer of classical music. |
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ID: MSVCD92009 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: Piano The third in Metier's "20th century British Piano Music" series based on Tippett's Sonatas, this CD contains his Fourth Sonata and works by Colin Matthews, Constant Lambert and Robert Saxton, central figures in mid-late 20th century music.
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Sir Michael Tippett:
Sonata no. 4
Robert Saxton:
Sonata
Colin Matthews:
Eleven Studies in Velocity
Constant Lambert:
Elegy |
12.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD003 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music 14 short songs by leading British composers - ranging from Harrison Birtwistle to Michael Nyman - drawn from Mary Wiegold's Songbook, an ever-increasing collection of works written for Wiegold and the Composers Ensemble
"Like a modern-day codex. Should nothing survive from the previous decade of British music save this, scholars would still be able to form a reliable picture of the diverse compositional activity of those years." |
22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD019 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: Piano and Cello Featuring an outstanding and virtuoso cello & piano duo, long committed to contemporary music, this recording showcases works by six composers at the forefront of British music and includes Crosse's profound and majestic Wavesongs. |
22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD033 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble Matthews's The Great Journey, a forceful and panoramic narrative of a 16th-century Spanish expedition to America, is complemented by the scherzo Fuga and Night's Mask, a darkly atmospheric setting of Fernando Pessoa's brooding sonnet. |
22.00 eur Buy |
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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 |
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ID: NMCD062 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Subcollection: Orchestra 3 sets of variations - two previously unrecorded - with contributions from 19 British composers ranging from William Walton to Judith Weir |
22.00 eur Buy |
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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 |
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ID: NMCD075 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble Commissions for young and amateur musicians from The Schubert Ensemble's Chamber Music 2000 project
"Definitive performances from the Schubert Ensemble, beautifully recorded."The Strad 2001 |
22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD101 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Cello Collection Subcollection: Cello and Symphony Orchestra This 2-disc Ancora reissue brings together Alexander Baillie's impassioned recording of Matthews' Cello Concerto No.1, the expnsive Landscape, and four works commissioned by the LSO - including the riotous Machines & Dreams, an updated 'toy symphony' which includes bird calls, football rattles and video-game sound effects.
Recordings originally released on Collins Classics and Unicorn-Kanchana.
Reissued with funding from Arts Council England. |
28.00 eur Buy |
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