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ID: DCD34026
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Choir
John Harle, Soprano saxophone
National Youth Choir of Great Britain and Laudibus - Mike Brewer
Allain has developed a unique musical dialect malleable enough to cover the gamut of liturgical purposes represented on this disc. Whether refracted through the facets of spiritual, carol, motet or Mass setting, his is a music that can only be added to the list of languages from which we should all take inspiration.
Saxophonist John Harle joins Scottish soprano Susan Hamilton and Delphian artist Matthew Owens in these bold works, which are at once heartrending and uncompromising. Whether refracted through the varied generic possibilities of spiritual, carol, motet or Mass, Richard Allain has developed a musical dialect malleable enough to cover the gamut of liturgical purposes represented on this disc. With advocates such as these, Allain’s music cannot fail to make a lasting impression.
Track listing
R. Allain
1 Salve Regina Double choir
2 At Night I Seek the One My Spirit Loves Soprano, soprano saxophone & organ
3 Bow Down Thine Ear, O Lord (Psalm 86) Choir & semi-chorus
Three Spirituals
4 Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel? SATB choir
5 It’s Me, O Lord Double choir & semi-chorus
6 Don't You Weep When I'm Gone SATB choir & semi-chorus
Missa Brevis SA choir & organ
7 Kyrie
8 Gloria
9 Sanctus
10 Benedictus
11 Agnus Dei
Two Christmas Carols
12 A Babe is Born SSATB choir
13 Coventry Carol Double choir & semi-chorus
14 Improperia Double choir & semi-chorus
15 Memento Homo Soprano saxophone & organ |
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ID: DCD34033
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Organ Collection
Subcollection: Choral and Organ
World premiere recording
Track listing
Swayne:
The Coming of Saskia Hawkins, Op. 51
Magnificat I, Op. 33
The Tiglet, Op. 68a
Four Passiontide Motets, Op. 95
A Convocation of Worms, Op. 67
Winter Solstice Carol, Op. 79
Midwinter, Op. 91
Missa Tiburtina, Op. 40
Michael Bonaventure & Stephen Wallace
National Youth Choir of Great Britain & Laudibus, Mike Brewer |
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ID: DCD34043
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Baroque
The massed voices of the 140-strong National Youth Choir revel in the magnificently soaring lines of Schütz’s sacred music, complemented by John Kitchen’s contributions on the powerful Rieger organ of St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh. Revered by his contemporaries as the ‘Orpheus of our time’, Schütz would never have heard his music performed by forces such as these and on such a scale - surely he would have been a strong advocate of this astounding aural experience. Kitchen’s solo contributions contextualise the choral music with organ works by Samuel Scheidt and other contemporaries of Schütz.
Track listing
Scheidemann:
Toccata in G
Scheidt:
Postlude: Benedicamus Domino à 6 (modus pleno organo pedaliter)
Ein kindelein so lobelich
Da Jesus an dem Kreuze
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, for organ, SSWV 496
Schütz:
Psalm 84: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, SWV 29
Ich weiß, daß mein Erlöser lebt, SWV 393
Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, SWV 386
So fahr ich hin zu Jesu Christ SWV 379
Die mit Tränen säen werden mit Freuden ernten SWV 378
Psalm 130: Aus der Tiefe ruf ich, Herr, zu dir, SWV 25
Psalm 8: Herr, unser Herrscher, SWV 27
Cantate Domino canticum novum SWV 81
Deutsches Magnificat, SWV 494 'Meine Seele erhebt den Herren'
Psalm 98: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, SWV 35
Psalm 150: Alleluja! Lobet den Herren in seinem Heiligtum SWV 38
Edward Batting (organ)
Sweelinck:
Puer nobis nascitur C 12
John Kitchen (solo organ)
The National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Mike Brewer |
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ID: DCD34045
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Tallis's monumental Spem in alium is one of the greatest glories of Western polyphony, and its pre-echoes and aftershocks reverberate through all the other pieces on this disc. The massed voices of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain shed dazzling light on their multifaceted programme of polychoral jewels from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, interspersed with virtuoso tributes from three leading contemporary composers including Gabriel Jackson's own 40-part motet.
Track listing
1. Gabriel Jackson (b. 1962): Sanctum est verum lumen
2. Robert Wylkynson (c.1450-c.1515): Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum
3. Francisco Guerrero (1528-99): Duo Seraphim
4. attrib. Josquin des Prez ( c.1450-1521 ): Qui habitat
5. Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611): Magnificat sexti toni
6. Tarik O'Regan (b. 1978): I sleep, but my heart waketh
7. Felice Anerio (c.1560-1614): Stabat Mater
8. attrib. Johannes Ockeghem (c.1410-1497): Deo gratia a 36
9. Bo Holten (b. 1948): In nomine
10. Thomas Tallis (1505-1585): Spem in alium
Total playing time [70:21] |
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ID: DCD34052
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Choir
East meets West on this new recording as two great singing traditions are brought together, to thrilling effect. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the three Baltic states have emerged as powerhouses of choral innovation and imagination. Mike Brewer and the NYCGB bring all their customary fervour and virtuosity to bear on this programme of masterworks from three of Europe's smallest, yet musically richest, countries.
Track listing
Vaclovas Augustinas (b1959)
1. Tau Bet Kokios Sutemos Šviesios
Mindaugas Urbaitis (b1952)
2. Lacrimosa
Augustinas
3. Hymne à St Martin
Peteris Plakidis (b1947)
4-8. Nolemtiba (Destiny): Symphony for Choir
Galina Grigorjeva (b1962)
9-14. Svjatki: Choir Concerto
Gabriel Jackson (b1962)
15. Cantus Maris Baltici
Total playing time [76:59] |
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ID: DCD34054
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir
The massed voices of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain are ideally suited to the choral music of Henryk Mikolaj Górecki, music of a monumental radiance which demands a huge and rich sonority. Alongside the ever-popular Totus Tuus, this resplendent recording also contains two recent works here receiving their premieres on disc - the luminous Lobgesang and the thrillingly massive Salve Sidus Polonorum, for choir, organ, two pianos and percussion.
Górecki (1933-2010) made his reputation as a leader of the Polish avant-garde in the 1950s, with his early works marking ‘the most colourful and vibrant expression of the new Polish wave.’ Inspired by folk and religious influences, and demonstrating a clear affinity with the likes of Szymanowski and Bartók, the emotional power and clarity of his music continues to radiate and inspire. Tracing his choral works from the Psalm settings of 1972 to music written in his final decade, this disc provides a fascinating insight into one of the most unique musical voices of the twentieth century.
Track listing
1 Euntes Ibant Et Flebant Op. 32
2 Lobgesang Op. 76
3 Totus Tuus Op. 60
Salve, Sidus Polonorum Op. 72
4 I. Per Merita Sancti Adalberti
5 II. Swiety Wojciechu Patronie Nasz Drogi
6 III. Salve, Sidus Polonorum
7 Amen Op. 35
Total playing time [62:02] |
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ID: DCD34080
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Choir
‘Coming from backgrounds of both English choral music and jazz, I have always been obsessed by musical connections. I love to perform music of one culture with singers of another, to help performers to share an awareness of music in different contexts.
I have had the good fortune to travel around the world every three years with the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. In South Africa I became fascinated by the rhythms and sounds of the music of the African continent. Mexico and Cuba opened up new vistas of musical connection for me, from elderly musicians performing the son jarocho in village tavernas in Veracruz to Afro- Caribbean jazz ensembles performing unbelievably complex music which arose out of that mix of cultures.
The pieces of choral music found here are similarly hybrid, because in most cases they combine elements from more than one source …’
The internationally-renowned National Youth Choir is peerless in bringing to life Brewer's transcontinental choral imaginings. Headed up by the first commercial recording of Mike’s Hamba Lulu, the programme journeys us from the Icelandic tundra to the sultry jazz clubs of Latin America. Is your hi-fi ready to go?
Track listing
1 Hamba Lulu (Zulu wedding song)
2 Holday danaa (Bengali bird song)
3 Molihua (China) Listen
4 Pueblo Sunrise Song (New Mexico, USA)
5 Ej lásko, lásko (Moravian folksong)
6 Tango Cappella (Argentina)
7 Kvölda tekur (Icelandic folksong)
8 Meguru (Kavango song from Namibia)
9 Tourdion (France)
10 Izintakana (Zulu bird song)
11 Korobushka (Russia/Ukraine)
12 Pokarekare (Maori love song)
13 Yelli bo'dek dhaya fikri (Tunisia)
14 El cascabel (Mexico)
Total playing time [68:02] |
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