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Composer: HARVEY, Jonathan ((b.1939) ) |
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ID: NMCD001
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Spectrum, Guy Protheroe
A mystical exploration of the Sanskrit Hymns of the Rig Veda for chamber ensemble and quadrophonic tape by Jonathan Harvey, whose long-standing connections with IRCAM and studies with Pierre Boulez are perfectly demonstrated here. |
| 22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD057
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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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: NMCD069
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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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: NMCD141
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
The works on this disc explore Harvey’s fascination with Eastern philosophies from the ecstatic Indian text of White as Jasmine to Body Mandala. |
| 22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD177
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano
Hideki Nagano, London Sinfonietta, David Atherton, Gareth Hulse, Paul Archibald, Tim Gill, Sound Intermedia
Jonathan Harvey won a Gramophone Award in 2008 for his NMC CD Body Mandala. The works, commissioned by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, explore his fascination with Eastern philosophies.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrates the life and work of Jonathan Harvey in two days of concerts, films and talks at the Barbican, London. Total Immersion runs from the 28-29 January 2012.
Harvey’s Bhakti was the first release on NMC in 1989.
Jonathan was invited by Pierre Boulez to work at IRCAM in the early 1980s.
Bird Concerto - Harvey's hommage to Messiaen - is a celebration of the kind of technical advances in electroacoustics which the creator of Oiseaux exotiques and the Catalogue d’oiseaux was never able to explore. Harvey started writing the piece when he was in California and says that ‘indigo bunting, orchard oriole, golden crowned sparrow ... are some of the forty colourful Californian birds whose songs and cries sparked the ignition of this work’. The bird sounds have been innovatively transformed to create a mesmeric dialogue between nature and art. Harvey sets the piano soloist (the work was commissioned by pianist Joanna MacGregor) the challenge of combining piano playing and triggering a sampler/ synthesizer so that the live electronics can be realised in real-time performance. Other works on this disc are Other Presences, for trumpet and multi-loop effects, and two versions of the canonic Ricercare una melodia (1984) originally written for trumpet and quadraphonic tape-delay system, but here performed on oboe and cello, with live electronics from Sound Intermedia. |
| 22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: SIGCD070
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir
In their debut disc on Signum, the Caius choir celebrates the relationship between seven British contemporary composers and their influences drawn from the Medieval period. |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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