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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: NMCD016
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Cry, for 28 solo voices and electronics, is an epic work that describes the creation myth, contrasting intricate rhythmic figures with huge arching phrases, and close dissonances with massive major chords. |
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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 |
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ID: NMCD055
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Choir
Peter Paul Nash's complex, multi-layered Symphony No.1 was inspired by newspaper reports of atrocities carried out during the Gulf War; the expressive, technically innovative Apollinaire Choruses combine the sensual with the intellectual. |
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ID: NMCD064
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
Elias's acclaimed settings of the anguished poetry of exiled Russian author Irina Ratushinskaya are coupled with Laments, which sets traditional folk texts of loss and mourning in the nearly extinct Sicilian-Greek dialect, Grico |
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ID: NMCD102
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble
Robert Saxton's opera Caritas - based on Arnold Wesker's drama about a walled-up anchoress of the 13th century - alongside his Violin Concerto, Music to Celebrate the Resurrection, In the Beginning and the set of choral motets I Will Awake the Dawn.
These recordings were originally released on Collins Classics. Reissued with funding from Arts Council England. |
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ID: NMCD137
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Judith Weir's major orchestral works. including Natural History, Forest and The Welcome Arrival of Rain
Weir’s music - often inspired by her love of nature and her interest in the world around her - is fresh, intelligent, approachable and evocative. Natural History - which she describes as a Taoist Carnival of the Animals-is set to ancient Chinese texts on horses, birds, fish and men and the music hints at an oriental and exotic world and in Moon and Star Weir uses the instruments highest and lowest registers to portray the vast expanse of our universe. |
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ID: NMCD170
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
The Cast:
Roderick Williams, baritone · Tim Mirfin, baritone
Teresa Cahill, soprano · Hilary Summers, mezzo-soprano
Louise Winter, mezzo-soprano · Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts, tenor
Brindley Sherratt, bass · Graeme Danby, bass
Jeremy White, bass
Actors: Simon Paisley Day · Jennie Stoller
Lydia Kalian · Rudi Goodman
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Singers
André de Ridder, conductor
Roderick Williams (Wandering Jew), Tim Mirfin (Jesus/Beggar), Teresa Cahill (Widowed Mother), Hilary Summers (Fortune Teller), Louise Winter (Kundry), Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts (Faust), Brindley Sherratt (Mephistopheles), Graeme Danby (Odin), Jeremy White (Old Man)
Robert Saxton’s long-awaited radio opera, commissioned by the BBC, is a modernist take on the tale of the Wandering Jew - the shoe-mender condemned by Jesus to wander the Earth until the Second Coming after he refused to help him on his way to his Crucifixion. The opera introduces many legendary characters, following medieval and other myths, including Faust, Mephistopheles, Kundry and Wotan. Underneath its surface lies a structure relating to the annual cycle of Jewish and Christian festivals in eight scenes of sweeping orchestral and choral music, enhanced by studio post-production from Antony Pitts. |
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