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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Howard Skempton: Bolt from the Blue
Skempton: | Bolt from the Blue first recording Daniel Becker (piano) Decision Time first recording Daniel Becker (piano) The Durham Strike Daniel Becker (piano) Guitar Caprice first recording Daniel Becker (piano) Horham first recording Daniel Becker (piano) Leamington Spa first recording Daniel Becker (piano) Liebeslied first recording Daniel Becker (piano) Lyric Study first recording Daniel Becker (piano) Memorial Prelude first recording Daniel Becker (piano) The Mold Riots first recording Daniel Becker (piano) Monogram first recording Daniel Becker (piano) Nocturnes first recording Daniel Becker (piano) Resister first recording Daniel Becker (piano) Starlight first recording Daniel Becker (piano) Sweet Chariot Daniel Becker (piano) Well, well, Cornelius Daniel Becker (piano) Emerson Songs Exaudi, James Weeks Five Poems of Mary Webb first recording Exaudi, James Weeks Four by the Clock first recording Exaudi, James Weeks Music, when soft voices die first recording Exaudi, James Weeks Rose-berries Exaudi, James Weeks Snape Interval first recording Exaudi, James Weeks The Snare first recording Exaudi, James Weeks Two Poems of Edward Thomas Exaudi, James Weeks He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Exaudi, James Weeks |
Howard Skempton is a professional composer whose works have been published by Oxford University Press since 1994. His best known work is "Lento" (1990), commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Much of his music is available on CD. The OUP website includes discography, a biography and details of recent compositions. Howard's string quartet,Tendrils, written for the 2004 Huddersfield Festival, won the Royal Philharmonic Society award for chamber-scale composition. Tendrils also won the Chamber Music category in the BBC Radio 3's British Composer Awards. 'The Moon is Flashing' won the 2008 award in the vocal category. This CD of miniatures intersperses choral works with solo piano pieces. The texts for the choral works come from Mary Webb, Edward Thomas, Emerson, Judith Cramond and Longfellow. Liner notes by the composer, who also supervised the choral recording sessions. Exaudi was proclaimed by Gramophone magazine as “…one of the most sensationally gifted vocal groups performing in the UK at the moment”. James Weeks founded EXAUDI in 2002, and maintains a busy international touring and recording schedule with the group. He was appointed Musical Director of the New London Chamber Choir in 2007. Pianist Daniel Becker has built a reputation for insightful interpretations of 20th and 21st century music. He was first prizewinner at the British Contemporary Piano Competition in 2003, where he also won the Sonic Arts Network Prize for his performance of Jonathan Harvey’s Tombeau de Messiaen. “You hear, you enjoy, and then think about how more cavalier composers freeload off the surface of jazz...Skempton sounds like the future to me.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2011 “The care taken over the selection of pieces makes this anthology a representative one: never in doubt are the variety and depth of his thinking within its chosen limits...Skempton invariably 'explains' his texts as effortlessly as EXAUDI renders his settings.” International Record Review, March 2011 “Skempton is the master of the unassuming miniature, and each of these tiny pieces says more in just a couple of minutes (or just seconds in some cases) than many composers manage in 10 times as long...his choral writing is exquisite, too, sometimes intricately chromatic, sometimes blamelessly diatonic” The Guardian, 23rd December 2010 **** | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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“A characteristic of Brockless’s music is his use of perky, jagged and unpredictable rhythms which the Queen’s College choir clearly relish, producing some vivacious, incisive singing...there are some really enjoyable moments in the Britten Flower Songs and they summon up something quite magical for Jonathan Harvey’s I love the Lord.” Gramophone Magazine, March 2004 “The singers are on really top form, giving first-rate accounts of the challenging anthems by Jonathan Harvey whilst also making a case for more conventional fare such as the essentially tuneful pieces by Brockless. There is absolutely no fuzziness about the singing, the sopranos especially exuding a purity of line that will be the envy of many.” Organists Review, February 2004 “What is an apparently disparate programme of British choral music in fact works extremely well, and includes not a few revelations...Brian Brockless’s work is less well known than it deserves to be. Essentially traditional in idiom, it yet provides a series of technical challenges...and is strikingly memorable” International Record Review, October 2003 | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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