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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Pigs Could FlyTwentieth-Century Music for Children’s Choir
Alexander Wells (piano) The New London Children’s Choir, Ronald Corp While children’s voices have been heard in church music for centuries, music specifically composed for young choristers is a relatively recent, and most welcome, development. As the attractive and diverse music by the fourteen composers represented on this delightful recording shows, children’s choirs now have a wealth of outstanding repertoire to delight, challenge and initiate them into the world of music. The Grammy award-winning New London Children’s Choir, founded by Ron Corp in 1991, has been described by the Financial Times as “excellent” and by The Independent as “terrific.” They have performed in the UK, Europe and North America to critical acclaim and boast an impressive discography, including two recordings of music by Britten for Naxos (8553183 and 8557203). | 
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| |  | Howard Skempton: The Cloths of HeavenChoral music and songs
The Exon Singers, Matthew Owens World Premiere Recordings. Best known as a composer of exquisitely quirky miniatures for accordion or piano solo, Howard Skempton has in recent years developed an equally strong affinity for the choral medium.The Exon Singers' programme on this brand new disc includes a new Missa brevis composed especially for the recording, alongside songs and shorter choral pieces constituting a broad survey of Skempton's output over the past twenty-five years. “The Exons are at their most exciting in exalted mode - the Sanctus from the Missa brevis is thrilling. Ave virgo sanctissima, too, is wonderful.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2008 *** |
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| |  | Romantic ResiduesSongs for tenor and harp
James Gilchrist (tenor), Alison Nicholls (harp) & Jaime Martin (flute) James Gilchrist is one of the finest British tenors of today, acclaimed as a concert soloist, a recitalist and a recording artist, each latest event eliciting more rapturous comments from critics and audience alike. In his first solo disc for Hyperion, he features in a fascinating recital of English, French and American music for tenor, harp and flute. What do we remember of our past romantic encounters? This is the theme of ‘Romantic Residues’, the opening section of Vikram Seth’s collection of verse All You Who Sleep Tonight, first published in 1990. There are nine poems in all, varying widely in content and mood—from the light and whimsical to the melancholy and dark. The songs were commissioned by the Bury St Edmunds Festival and composed for James Gilchrist and Alison Nicholls who gave the first performance. This charming, impeccably-performed collection of morceaux and mélodies also includes works by Britten, Saint-Saëns, Ravel and Fauré. “[Gilchrist] is now unsurpassed among lyric tenors in sweetness and technical security, and for his musical intelligence” The Independent “Repeated hearings may harm the artful simplicity of the title cycle by Alec Roth, but the Britten folk-song settings should never die. If Gilchrist’s French is too muscular overall, he tiptoes delicately through the final song by Marcel Tournier.” The Times, 8th August 2008 *** “James Gilchrist is one of the most expressive tenors of the day, his timbre soft-grained, his diction immaculate, his lack of mannerism gratifying and his choice of repertory, on this disc of songs and song cycles with harp, interesting.” Sunday Times, 10th August 2008 *** “…an interesting and intelligent singer, well served by his distinguished accompanists.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2008 **** |
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| |  | Howard Skempton - Ben Somewhen
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group & EXAUDI, James Weeks This disc contrasts Skempton’s choral works—including the dancing, evocative setting of Shelley’s The Voice of the Spirits
and the spiritual Rise up, my love—with chamber music ranging from solo cello (the Suite from ‘Delicate’) to the
exuberant, yet very English, Chamber Concerto. “Howard’s music is elegant, British, civilised, with a touch of anarchy. I see him as a gentleman in a bowler hat, a
briefcase — and sandals.” BBC Music Magazine “Howard Skempton's music sounds deceptively easy. Openness to simplicity is one of the hardest qualities to nurture in music, and it is the heart and soul of Skempton's creativity. Exaudi is typically assured under the direction of James Weeks, masterfully pacing The Voice of the Spirits across its broad span. BCMG captures both the innate charm of the Clarinet Quintet and the diverse moods of the Chamber Concerto.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2007 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Joanna MacGregor - Play
Joanna MacGregor's 2002 Mercury Nominated Play is a summing-up of her work in the last ten years: it ranges from the beauty and tranquillity of Elizabethan composers William Byrd and John Dowland through to funky collaborations with tabla genius Talvin Singh and South African jazz pianist Moses Molelekwa; from an intensely dramatic, filmic score written by the young Belgrade composer Ivana Ognjanovic to Nancarrow's wild boogie-woogie study no 11. Also included are the meditative Incarnation II by Japanese composer Somei Satoh and one of Piazzolla's most famous tangos, Libertango. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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BBC Symphony Orchestra, Mark Wigglesworth Lento, by the British miniaturist Howard Skempton, must surely be heading for cult status… it is captivating in its simple wistfulness. - BBC Music Magazine Pick of 1992 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Christmas from Truro
Christopher Gray (organ) Truro Cathedral Choir, Robert Sharpe (director) A collection of well-loved traditional Carols performed by the critically-acclaimed Truro Cathedral Choir, directed by Robert Sharpe. Features all the Carols regularly sung at Truro Cathedral’s Nine Lessons and Carols and Midnight Mass services. First recordings of two new carols by leading British composers Gabriel Jackson and Howard Skempton, commissioned by Truro Cathedral. Includes Regent producer Gary Cole’s blues-inspired arrangement of Away in a Manger. |
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| |  | Song of Songs
Laudibus Ensemble, Mike Brewer The Song of Songs stands apart from its biblical surroundings as one of the supreme love poems of world literature, a celebration of erotic love in the form of a dialogue between a bridegroom and his bride, invoking all the senses, the fragrance of wine, blossom, fruits and spices. Ranging widely over five centuries, from the relative asperity of Dunstaple to the lush exoticism of Daniel-Lesur, this cherry-picked assortment of sweetmeats is given exultant life by Mike Brewer and Laudibus. 'Delicious precision: most of the world's choirs would die for their clean, blazing sound' – The Times | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | One Minute Wonders
Anderson, Julian: | Old Bells | Archbold: | Coronae | Armstrong, Tom: | Melody | Cashian: | Journey after Rain | Clark, J O: | on nicola's bell it says 6.six | Davies, T: | Last Minute | Donnelly: | Boss | Finnissy: | One Minute Wonder | Forbes: | Toccata | Goss, S: | invisible starfall | Grange: | Prelude: In Memoriam Karlin Field | Harrison, B: | Flowers Fall | Harrison, S: | Sleeping with the Fishes | Hayes, M: | Strides (1) | Hesketh: | Epigram | Hooper: | University Challenge | Ingoldsby: | A Little Moment | John, A: | Disillusioned | Keeley: | Chip Revisited | King, M: | Sonatas | Luck: | Attraction / Repulsion | Martin, P N: | Chime | Matthews, C: | 60 Second Waltz | McPherson: | Se voce puder dizer algo em um minuto e ele worth dizer | Moore, A: | Gudrun's Waltz | Norman, K: | Thumbs Up | Reeves: | Praeludium from Notturno dalle Flamme del'Inferno | Sambell: | crossing the M4 (as a spider) | Samuel, R: | Gaslight Square I | Sansom, M: | On Remembrance | Sierra, A: | Titmouse | Skempton: | Stroking the Keys | Smith, D: | Korean Waltz | Toovey: | Morag | Trainer: | Flip | Woolrich: | One Moment More |
This collection of 36 piano miniatures demonstrates how much energy, vitality and diversity there is in composition within the UK. A very restrictive brief has produced an astonishing flowering of individuality and creativity from a huge range of composers. Some of the composers are well-known international figures and some are students, but they have all responded with astounding imagination and invention | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Black VenusNew music for guitar
Kerstens’ playing throughout this programme is superb, he seems totally comfortable with the contemporary style of composition and puts in a thoroughly convincing performance of music,which at times, can be intellectually diificult. For lovers of contemporary guitar music this is a feast. Steve Marsh – Classical Guitar Magazine | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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