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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Craig Armstrong - Memory Takes My Hand
Armstrong, C: | One Minute, 15 pieces for orchestra ‘One Minute’ is a work composed of 15 one-minute pieces for orchestra, each minute functioning as a self-contained piece. It was commissioned by the Horse Cross Trust for the opening of the new Concert Hall in Perth. Immer (Violin Concerto No. 1) ‘Immer’, his Violin Concerto No. 1, was composed in 2007 for Clio Gould (today principal violin of the London Sinfonietta), with whom Craig Armstrong collaborated when she was artistic director to the Scottish Ensemble. She is regularly involved in the performance of contemporary solo repertoire. In ‘Immer’ Armstrong creates a specific acoustic sonority with techniques found in contemporary music software, using slow loops that phase in and out with one another, creating a blurred tonality, with the solo violin singing above the orchestra - a technique which also has its roots in early music; repetition, canons, fugues etc. Clio Gould (violin) Memory Takes My Hand ‘Memory Takes My Hand’ was a commission from the Glasgow City Council to write a new concert work for the reopening of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in October 2006. Craig Armstrong collaborated with the playwright Peter Arnott for the words, in this work sung by the British soprano Lucy Crowe. Lucy Crowe (soprano) Apollo Singers |
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Garry Walker “I wanted to find a direct language using tonality but being firmly routed in the 21st century. An abstract defuse way of writing much like the way an abstract painting where the images are blurred. And in this case melodies are hidden and slowly revealed. I have always had a fascination with sonority and orchestration in much a similar way in the way a painter deals with the subtle nuances of colour.” Craig Armstrong | 
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| |  | Gilbert & Sullivan - Iolanthe & Overture do Ballo
Sullivan: | Iolanthe The Lord Chancellor - George Baker,
The Earl of Mountararat - Ian Wallace,
Earl Tolloller - Alexander Young,
Private Willis - Owen Brannigan,
Strephon - James Cameron,
Queen of the Fairies - Monica Sinclair,
Iolanthe - Marjorie Thomas,
Celia - April Cantelo,
Leila - Heather Harper,
Phyllis - Elsie Morison Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Pro Arte Orchestra Overture di Ballo BBC Symphony Orchestra |
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| |  | Paul Tortelier
Paul Tortelier (cello) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult & Sir John Pritchard Recorded: Royal Festival Hall, London, 14 November 1972 (Elgar), Royal Festival Hall, London, 17 April 1974 (Brahms), BBC Studios, 10 February 1959 (Debussy) "The French Cellist’s personality is stamped on every bar of these live performances." (Gramophone) |
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| |  | The Vaughan Williams Experience
Amanda Roocroft, Thomas Hampson & Tamsin Little New College Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus, Andrew Davis |
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| |  | Vaughan Williams - The Symphonies
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis This 6-CD set brings together the acclaimed Vaughan Williams recordings from Teldec’s British
Line and includes as a bonus two works (The Wasps and Fantasia on Greensleeves) which were
not included in the original release.
Andrew Davis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra are considered to be interpreters par excellence
of this quintessentially British repertoire. “Davis has the key to this symphony’s combination of mystery, menace and qualified optimism.” (Sunday Telegraph on Job – A Masque for Dancing) |
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| |  | Nielsen - The Collector’s Edition
Nielsen: | Symphonies Nos. 1-6 (Complete) Kirsten Schultz (soprano), Peter Rasmussen (baritone) Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt Bøhmisk-dansk folketone, Paraphrase for strygeorkester (FS130) At the Bier of a Young Artist - string quartet and double bass, FS58 Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt Little Suite in A minor for strings, Op. 1 (FS6) Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Directed by Iona Brown Helios Overture, Op. 17 (FS32) Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt Symphonic Rhapsody in F major, FS7 Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt Violin Concerto, Op. 33 (FS61) Arve Tellefsen (violin) Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt Maskarade Overture BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis Saga-drøm, Op. 39 (FS46) Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt Pan & Syrinx, Op. 49 (FS87) Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt Flute Concerto, FS119 Frantz Lemmser Arve Tellefsen Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt Rhapsody Overture: An Imaginary Trip to the Faroe Islands (FS123) Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt Clarinet Concerto Op. 57 (FS129) Kjell-Inge Stevennson (clarinet) & Ib Jarikov (side drum) Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt Hymnus Amoris, Op. 12 (FS21) Kirsten Schultz & Bodil Gøbil (soprano), Tonny Landy (tenor), Bent Norup (bass baritone) & Mogens Schmidt Johansen & Hans Christian Andersen (bass) Copenhagen Boys’ Choir & Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mogens Wöldike The Sleep, Op. 18 (FS33) Danish Radio Chorus & Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mogens Wöldike Wind Quintet, Op. 43 (FS 100) Melos Ensemble Chaconne, Op. 32 (FS79) Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) Den Luciferiske Suite, Op. 45 (FS91) Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) Three Piano Pieces, Op. 59 (FS131) Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) Five Piano Pieces, Op. 3 (FS10) Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) Humoresque-Bagatelles, Op. 11 (FS22) Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) |
Whilst his works may not show the influence of his country’s literature and landscape as overtly as does Sibelius (with many of his works bearing distinct echoes of the Kalevala and, at times, it is almost easy to see the forests and lakes that he knew and loved), Nielsen is a composer who absorbed the distinctive atmosphere of his homeland. His scores are clear and forcefully argued, he used progressive tonality rather than resorting to the atonal techniques being practiced elsewhere in Europe. His modern reputation is based primarily on his six symphonies but, as can be heard in the other works in this collection, he was adept in many musical forms. A number of modern composers now acknowledge their debt to the group of composers in various countries who developed tonality rather than turning their backs on it – Bartók in Hungary, Janácek in the Czech lands and of course Sibelius and Nielsen and it is interesting to note that more and more commentators have indicated the growing interest in and importance of this music.
The majority of the recordings were made in Copenhagen with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Herbert Blomstedt (Symphonies, Concertos and Tone Poems) and Mogens Wöldike (Choral works) in the first half of 1970s.
Other works have been added to these thereby giving the listener a wide and fairly comprehensive survey of this influential composer. Like some other great composers – Bach, Mozart and Schubert for example – whose works have been catalogued by experts, Dan Fog and Torben Schousboe have completed this task for Nielsen and this set includes this FS numbering as the prime identification. Dates of composition are also included and Opus Numbers where and when they were allocated. |
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| |  | Lutyens - Quincunx
Bedford, D: | Music for Albion Moonlight (K. Patchen) for soprano, flute, clarinet, melodica, piano, violin, cello Jane Manning (soprano) Members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, John Carewe | Lutyens: | Quincunx for baritone, soprano and orchestra Josephine Nendick (soprano) & John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Norman Del Mar And Suddenly it’s Evening, Op. 66 for tenor and chamber ensemble Herbert Handt (tenor/director) Members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra |
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| |  | Shura Cherkassky
Shura Cherkassky (piano) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ronald Zollman & Vernon Handley Recorded: Usher Hall, 29 January 1992 (Beethoven), Royal Albert Hall, 14 September 1985 (Gershwin) |
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| |  | Measha Brueggergosman - SurpriseCabaret Songs
Measha Brueggergosman (soprano), William Bolcom (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson A triumphant DG debut recital for the Yellow Label’s new signing. Measha Brueggergosman (remember that name – no easy feat, granted) is expressive and at times deliciously wicked. The voice isn’t entirely even yet, but it’s already
a gorgeous, fascinating sound. - Gramophone Magazine |
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| |  | Die Ausflüge des Herrn Broucek
Peter Straka, Jan Vacík, Zdenek Plech, Maria Haan, Roman Janál, Martina Bauerová, Ales Briscein, Jaroslav Brezina & Václav Sibera BBC Singers & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jirí Belohlávek |
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