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Composer: MUSGRAVE, Thea ((b. 1928)) |
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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: 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: NMCD074
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Orchestra
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: NMCD153
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble
Thea Musgrave's dramatic evocation of JMW Turner's seascapes is coupled with her settings of Burns' poems, 'Songs for a Winters Evening', and the double concerto 'Two's Company', written for Dame Evelyn Glennie and Nicholas Daniel. |
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ID: NMCD167
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble
Jake Gardner, baritone
Gayle Hunnicutt, narrator
London Sinfonietta
Thea Musgrave, conductor
Red Byrd
Fretwork
Scottish Ensemble
Rich, powerful musical language and a strong sense of drama have made Thea Musgrave one of the most respected and exciting of living composers. Born in Edinburgh in 1928, she studied at the University of Edinburgh then in Paris, where she spent four years as a pupil of Nadia Boulanger, before establishing herself in London with her orchestral, choral, operatic and chamber works. She has lived in the US since 1970.
Musgrave’s ‘opera for radio’ sets a dreamlike tale of the American Civil War based on An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, a short story written in the late 19th century by Ambrose Bierce.
Thea Musgrave says .... These three works, though all very different and written decades apart, nevertheless share a common subject: conflict. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1981), a heart-breaking story from the American Civil war; Wild Winter I (1993), a setting of poems from many different countries and in several different languages about the inevitable losses and cruelties of war; and Green (2007), an abstract conflict of a life-giving force against its suffocating nemesis. |
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