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Compositeur: FINNISSY, Michael ((b. 1946)) |
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ID: MSV28513
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Contemporary music
Subcollection: OboeWorks for oboe and strings (either string trio or quartet) form a considerable part of the oboe's historic repertoire. Works first appeared in the 1750s and by the 1770s were very popular. Over 100 works survive from this period; the most famous being the Mozart Oboe Quartet in F K370. It is not, however, until the 20th century that works are once again written for this ensemble, many for the renowned British oboists Leon Goossens and Janet Craxton. Surrounding these figures a substantial body of music for oboe and string trio or quartet has been written, the most well known work being Britten’s Phantasy Quartet op 2. The works for oboe and strings represented on this CD, while in many ways being part of this great tradition, offer significantly different ways of writing for the ensemble; taking different compositional and stylistic approaches to the music and particularly in their writing for the oboe. These various approaches demonstrate the potential of this medium; its artistic and aesthetic range. Of the other three works, Finnissy’s two pieces present the oboe as a soloist with an ensemble accompaniment and Redgate’s Éperons for oboe and one percussionist offers a different approach to writing for the instrument in a chamber music setting. Since his time as a student at the Royal Academy of Music, Christopher Redgate has specialised in the performance of contemporary oboe music. This specialisation has inspired many composers to write for him and as a result he has given premiere performances of a great number of works. His performing career has taken him all over the world, working as a soloist and in many ensembles. His performances frequently include the use of electronics and especially of the laptop computer and for many years now he has been including improvisation as a significant part of his recitals. He has been active as a teacher both of oboe and in workshops for composers. He broadcasts regularly for BBC R3 and has several solo CDs available. He has recently contributed three articles to an edition of Contemporary Music Review, is working on a book on the interpretation of contemporary oboe music and contributing a chapter in a new book on the music of Michael Finnissy.
Clarke, James:
Quintet for Oboe and String Quartet,Kreutzer Quartet
Finnissy:
Greatest Hits of All Time / Ceci n’est pas une forme, Ensemble Exposé
Fox, C: Oboe Quintet, Kreutzer Quartet
Redgate, R: Quintet for Oboe & Strings, Kreutzer Quartet / Éperons, Julian Warburton (percussion)
Skempton: Garland for Oboe and String Trio, Roger Redgate (violin), Bridget Carey (viola) & Robin Michael (cello)
Christopher Redgate (oboe)
The Kreutzer Quartet includes:
Peter Sheppard Skærved (Violin)
Mihailo Trandafilovski and previously Gordon MacKay (Violin)
Morgan Goff and previously Bridget Carey (Viola)
Neil Heyde (Cello) |
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ID: MSVCD92011
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection: QuartetPart of Metier's ongoing series of recordings of the music of Michael Finnissy, one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed contemporary composers
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Michael Finnissy:
Plain Harmony I Plain Harmony II Plain Harmony III Nobody's Jig Sehnsucht Multiple Forms of Constraint String Quartet
The Kreutzer Quartet includes:
Peter Sheppard Skærved (Violin)
Mihailo Trandafilovski and previously Gordon MacKay (Violin)
Morgan Goff and previously Bridget Carey (Viola)
Neil Heyde (Cello) |
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ID: MSVCD92023
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Sacred Music
Subcollection: ChoirMichael Finnissy is one of the best known and most productive of modern British composers, and highly featured in the Metier catalogue. These beautiful motets are lyrical and deeply spiritual, in an accessible modern idiom.
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Hymnos sacrae quos virgini In mense autem sexto Salve Regina Et cum factus esset Ave regina coelorum Stabant autem iuxta crucem O virga, floriditatem tuam |
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ID: MSVCD92027
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: PianoAmongst modern British composers, the name of Michael Finnissy is particularly eminent; his music can be uncompromising but is always fresh and inventive, as shown in his staggering sets of transcriptions of Verdi arias. Here Ian Pace also presents Finnissy's Fourth and Sixth Piano Concertos, confusingly written for solo piano. A tour de force of composition and performance, this CD was long out of print and has been re-released at mid-price by popular demand. One of the Metier Finnissy series, and a seminal recording in contemporary piano music.
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Michael Finnissy Verdi Transcriptions, Book I (9 tracks) Verdi Transcriptions, Book II (9 tracks) Piano Concerto no. 4 Piano Concerto no. 6 Snowdrift To & Fro |
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ID: MSVCD92030
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: PianoLeading composer Michael Finnissy started by improvising Gershwin songs as recital encores - then developed them into formal pieces in order to explore an era in which jazz and modernism both evolved in response to social change...... he wrote two groups of arrangements, both here in their only complete recording.
tracks: How long has this been going on? Things are looking up A foggy day in London Town Love is here to stay They can't take that away from me Shall we dance? They're writing songs of love but not for me Fidgety Feet Embraceable You Waiting for the sun to come out Innocent ingenue baby Blah, blah, blah Boy wanted Love is here to stay (original version) Limehouse Nights Wait a bit, Susie I'd rather Charleston Isn't it wonderful Nobody but you Swanee Dixie Rose Someone belives in you Nashville Nightingale |
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ID: MSVCD92050
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber EnsembleMichael Finnissy is amongst the most celebrated of contemporary British composers and his music is featured on many of our CDs. This selection of works for chamber group and solo instruments written between 1977 and 1990 displays both his formidable talents and those of Topologies. These pieces are inspired by the disappearing musical cultures in places affected by ethnic cleansing (Kurdestan and Azerbaijan) and "discredited" musical styles such as free jazz and expressionism.
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Dilok (oboe & percussion) Delal (oboe d'amore & percussion) Kulamen Dilan (soprano sax & percussion) Moon's goin' down (solo oboe) Runnin' wild (solo oboe) Keroiylu (oboe, bassoon & piano) Lost Lands (sax, clarinet, violin, guitar, piano)
Topologies, a contemporary chamber music group founded by pianist Ian Pace, is at the leading edge of the modern music scene in Great Britain and appears on a number of Metier CDs.
The personnel varies with the music being recorded, and includes:
Guy Cowley (clarinet), Christopher Redgate (oboe), Ian Pace (piano), Nancy Ruffer (flutes), Julian Warburton (percussion), Andrew McNeill (saxophone), Philip Gibbon (bassoon), Darragh Morgan and Chris George (violins), Bridget Carey (viola), Betsy Taylor (cello), Alan Thomas (guitar) and Mikel Toms (conductor) |
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ID: MSVCD92063
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: FluteWorks for solo flute by some of the most respected British composers of the present day - performed with consummate skill on a variety of instruments by the virtuoso flautist Nancy Ruffer, who has been at the forefront of contemporary flute interpretation, giving numerous first performances - including the UK premiere of Ferneyhough's Superscriptio at the Queen Elizabeth Hall - and commissioning new works from composers such as Chris Dench, Michael Finnissy and others.
tracks: Brian Ferneyhough: Superscriptio Jason Eckardt: Multiplicities Henry Cowell: The Universal Flute James Dillon: Sgothan Diffraction Chris Dench: Caught Breath of Time Michael Finnissy: Ulpirra Michael Parkin: Elegy Simon Holt: Maïastra |
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ID: MSVCD92069
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voice and OrganRICHARD JACKSON (baritone), JANE MONEY (mezzo-soprano), TONY POTTER & LARRY YATES (narrators), PHILIP ADAMS (organ), IXION, conducted by the composer.
Michael Finnissy is among the leading composers of our generation, and this CD forms part of the Metier Finnissy cycle, still ongoing. Finnissy wrote "This Church" in 2001-3 to celebrate the 900th anniversary of St. Mary de Haura, New Shoreham, on the Sussex coast. This church and the evolving community around it is typical of countless others across Britain. Its story exemplifies the history of Christianity from Norman times to the present.
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This Church - parts 1-4
CD also includes a FLASH multimedia presentation about the project.
Ixion was formed in May 1987, and launched with concerts at the BMIC and Dartington; it was from the title of an early Feldman score that the name Ixion was chosen. The purpose in forming this ensemble was to provide an independent platform for composers and instrumentalists. Ixion has had five series of concerts at the Brighton Festival and at Dartington, as well as concerts at the Bergen Festival, Huddersfield Festival, Darmstadt Summer School, various universities and the South Bank - many of these concerts were broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Ixion have also been featured on BBC2 and Channel 4 television. Over the last few years, Ixion has also recorded and released several critically acclaimed CDs featuring the music of Andrew Toovey and Michael Finnissy. |
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ID: MSVCD92100
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and PianoNew French Song has created a whole new repertoire of songs by British composers. The artists commissioned twenty exceptional British composers, some of whom were well established, others of whom were yet to receive the recognition they deserve. The composers were asked to set French literature of their choice from the past two hundred years. The result is a fascinating rainbow work covering all the major literary movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, overlapping into the twenty-first century - Romanticism, Symbolism, Surrealism, Cubism, Modernism and post-Modernism.
tracks: O'Regan: Sainte Harrison: ...issu stellaire.. Todd: Le Pont Mirabeau Cowie: Les Hiboux Chilcott: L'enfant dort Casken: Colloque Sentimental Crane: Tour de France Statistics 1902-2003 Gorb: La Cloche Fêlée Jackson: A la Mémoire de Claude Debussy Finnissy: Salomé Keeling: Artemis Wood: Alicante Burrell: Longtemps ce fut l'été Roe: Pourquoi? LeFanu: Billet à Whistler McGuire: Rêves de la Bonne Heure Bingham: La Jeune Morte Redgate: Mirlitonnades Skempton: Le Pont Mirabeau Fitkin: Les Aliments Blancs |
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ID: MSVCD92102
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and PianoA most remarkable CD, demonstrating the real avant-garde in vocal music, requiring phenomenal levels of vocal virtuosity. The performance by Clare Lesser is awesome and an object lesson in how to interpret challenging material.
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Michael FINNISSY: Song 15 Giacinto SCELSI: Hô Hans Werner HENZE: Being Beauteous (with David Lesser, piano) David LESSER: Ten Virgil Settings Milko KELEMEN: Die sieben Plagen Cathy BERBERIAN: Stripsody |
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