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ID: NMCD009
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Antony Pay, London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen - Harrison Birtwistle: Ritual Fragment
This disc couples two major works composed in the 1970s, Melencolia I and Meridian, a setting of love poetry, with Ritual Fragment, written in 1989. The works display Birtwistle's distinctive and forceful voice and range in mood from austere introspective journeying to moments of unbearable intensity. |
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ID: NMCD015M
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
Holloway's Second Concerto for Orchestra displays the composer at his most thrilling and eclectic. Inspired by a visit to North Africa, the work pulsates with energy and excitement.
GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER - BEST CONTEMPORARY RECORDING 1994 "A fascinating disc: the Concerto isn't quite like anything else I know, and in every aspect NMC have served it well. It deserves the widest possible hearing."Gramophone 1994 |
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ID: NMCD023
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano
Two vital orchestral works by this key figure of the celebrated 'Manchester School' of post-war British composers and one of the most influential teachers of composition. |
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ID: NMCD031
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
Three recordings from 1941, publicly available for the first time following transfer from the original 78rpm discs and lengthy subsequent treatment: the centrepiece is an off-air recording of the American premiere of Les Illuminations with Peter Pears.
1. BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Oliver Knussen, conductor/ Stefan Asbury, assistant conductor
2. London Sinfonietta/ Oliver Knussen, conductor
3. William Howard, piano - Anthony Powers
4. Composers Ensemble/ Diego Masson, conductor
5. Alexander Baillie, cello/ Andrew Ball, piano
6. Mary Wiegold, soprano/ Composers Ensemble/ Dominic Muldowney, cond
7. Mstislav Rostropovich, cello/ London Symphony Orchestra/ Hugh Wolff, conductor
8. BBC Singers/ John Poole, conductor
9. Jane's Minstrels/ Roger Montgomery, conductor
10. Nua Nos/ Noriko Kawai, piano/ Dairine Ni Mheadhra, conductor
11. Jane Manning, soprano/ Jane's Minstrels/ Roger Montgomery, conductor
12. London Sinfonietta | Peter Serkin, cello | Oliver Knussen, conductor
13. Sounds Positive/ David Sutton-Anderson, conductor
14. Martin Robertson, saxophone/ Christopher van Kampen, cello/ The Nash Ensemble/ Oliver Knussen, conductor
15. BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Andrew Davis, conductor
16. Peter Pears, tenor/ CBS Symphony Orchestra/ Benjamin Britten, conductor |
| 22.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD095
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Goehr's neo-classical works - Bach tribute ...a musical offering (JSB 1985)... and Sinfonia - plus the dazzling coloratura aria Behold the Sun, the Romanza for cello and orchestra, and the vivid variation-set Metamorphosis/Dance.
Originally released on Unicorn-Kanchana in 1981.
Reissued with funding from Arts Council England. |
| 28.00 eur Buy |
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ID: NMCD096
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble
Sing, Ariel sets a patchwork of texts, ranging from Milton to Wallace Stevens, for 3 solo sopranos; it is coupled with The Death of Moses, a vast choral exploration of Hebrew myth.
Originally released on Unicorn-Kanchana in 1993/4.
Reissued with funding from Arts Council England. |
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ID: NMCD121
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Orchestra
Book of Hours combines ensemble and live electronics in a tribute to the glories of late medieval art; it uses electronic sound as (in the composer's words) "an extra colour … rather as gold-leaf might be applied in a Medieval manuscript".
This exploration of other times and sound-worlds is continued in Eden, Four American Choruses and Symphony (inspired by a painting of Lake Keitele in Finland); the disc is completed by Imagin'd Corners, an exuberant showpiece for five horns and orchestra.
Note on Recording (Track 9 "noise")
We would like to point out that the crackling noise present on track 2 of Book of Hours (track 9 of the album) is intentional. The composer's idea was to begin Part 2 of the work as a distorted version of Part 1 (track 8). Julian Anderson has explained to us that he is recreating - with electronics - the surface noise of LPs bought in Eastern Europe before the fall of the Berlin Wall (he has a strong interest in Eastern European music).
1- City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/ Martyn Brabbins, conductor
2, 7 - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/ Sakari Oramo, conductor
3, 4, 5, 6 - City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus/ Simon Halsey, conductor
8, 9 - Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/ Oliver Knussen, conductor |
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ID: NMCD149
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Orchestra
Colin Matthews: Chamber works (NMC D149 - Ancora Series)
Oboe Quartet No.1, String Quartet No.2,
Divertimento for Double String Quartet, Five Concertinos for Wind Quintet, Triptych
‘[Colin Matthews is] the Isambard Kingdom Brunel of contemporary music: master of great time machines, steamy with energy derived from pulse and from massive,
surging harmony, and openly displaying their structural engineering, all finished with a craftsman's care.' Paul Griffiths
Most of the works on this disc were originally available on vinyl only; the String Quartet No.2, performed by the Brindisi Quartet, has never been released.
Ancora Series
The NMC Ancora series is devoted to the re-issue of important recordings of contemporary British works which have been deleted from other record labels.
Recent additions to the series include the Gramophone award winning performance of Harrison Birtwistle’s opera Punch and Judy and David Blake’s Violin Concerto.
This autumn we are re-releasing Birtwistle’s Secret Theatre performed by the London Sinfonietta under Elgar Howarth. |
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ID: NMCD157
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble
Significant concert activity planned to mark Sir Peter Maxwell Davies 75th birthday in 2009, including concert performances of Taverner in November by BBC SSO (UK).
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was appointed Master of the Queen’s Music in 2004.
Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle studied together at the Royal Northern College of Music where they founded the contemporary music touring ensemble the Pierrot Players (later renamed The Fires of London).
Maxwell Davies Lives in Sanday in the Orkney Islands which are located off the northern tip of Scotland where the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean meet. Orkney is an archipelago of 70 or so islands; just 21 of them are inhabited.
This is Peter Maxwell Davies’ first release on the NMC label. To mark Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s 75th birthday NMC issue the long-awaited release of his seminal opera, Taverner.
This release is of the landmark 1997 BBC recording featuring an astonishing line up of the cream of British contemporary music interpreters, alongside specialist period instrument ensembles Fretwork and His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, conducted by Oliver Knussen. Although what is now known about the 16th-century English composer John Taverner differs considerably from the plot of this opera, the piece is both a fascinating study of an artist as a man for all seasons and an extraordinary indictment of the horrors inflicted on humanity by religion, or religious zealotry.
The Taverner of the opera abandons music to become a persecutor of the Catholic faith and thus betrays all that is good in himself. In Act 1 we see him being tried for heresy by the White Abbot and pardoned by the Cardinal (Wolsey) because of his music. In Act 2, which is a parody of the first, Taverner is trying the White Abbot, who is burned at the stake. That is the bare outline. A sub-plot is Henry VIII’s wish for a break with Rome in order to divorce Catherine of Aragon and the machinations of a Jester, otherwise Death, who controls Taverner’s fate. |
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