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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | This is the dayMusic on royal occasions
This new album recollects and celebrates some of the choral music heard on royal occasions during the lifetime of HM Elizabeth II. The music chosen reflects the personal choices and commission by the Royal Family for weddings, funerals, and anniversaries. Featuring John Rutter’s celebratory royal wedding anthem This is the day, written for the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey in 2011. Newly orchestrated exclusively for this recording, it reminds us of the event that captivated the attention of the nation last year. The CD also includes a new arrangement for unaccompanied choir of the Londonderry Air to the text I would be true, and an orchestration of Schubert’s beautiful Psalm 23 - The Lord is my Shepherd by John Rutter for this recording. “Elin Manahan Thomas is impressive with her poise and limpidity...The Cambridge Singers, outstandingly fresh and communicative throughout under John Rutter's expert, energising direction, excel particularly in a superbly buoyant, incisive performance of the 'Choral Dances' from Britten's Gloriana...Of its type, this is a virtually unimproveable collection.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2012 ***** “it's all beautifully sung. Elin Manahan Thomas performs Mozart's Laudate Dominum with effortless grace, whilst the Cambridge Singers are chameleon-like in their ability to take on different musical styles...Light, joyous, and beautifully performed, this is sacred choral easy listening of the highest standard.” Charlotte Gardner, bbc.co.uk, 16th May 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Time Traveller: Wartime Britain
Britain’s Finest Hour – and six years of cataclysm, stoicism and heroism – are recalled by this richly varied collection of music associated with the Second World War. From Forces’ Sweetheart Vera Lynn to the National Gallery’s pianist, Dame Myra Hess, and from the cinematic sweep of William Walton and Richard Addinsell to the dapper sophistication of Eric Coates and restrained sentiment of Noël Coward, this treasury of hits from the blitz salutes an era never to be forgotten. This musical portrait of Britain at war takes off with the Spitfire and lands with the Lancasters of 617 Squadron – the Dam Busters. In between are many of the best-loved melodies that helped unite all ranks and classes in the conflict. The collection’s still centre is the serene slow movement of Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony, a work whose 1943 première was sensed as a harbinger of piece. Either side are marches, popular film scores, light-music hits and – impossible without – Dame Vera Lynn. The favourite marches include Colonel Bogey, the RAF March Past and (as well as the Dam Busters) Coates’s Knightsbridge. The film scores lead with Walton’s First of the Few and take in his celebrated music for Olivier’s Henry V as well as the romantic mini-concertos for Dangerous Moonlight (‘Warsaw Concerto’) and Love Story. Among the vintage recordings, Sir Noël Coward stirs our ‘London Pride’, the crooner Al Bowlly (killed in the Blitz) bids ‘Goodnight, Sweetheart’, and – just before the final flypast and busting of dams – Dame Myra Hess reminds us of the legendary National Gallery concerts with her own arrangement of ‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | British Film Music
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| |  | Byways of British Music
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| |  | In Memory of ...Classics for funerals
Bach, J S: | Komm süsser Tod, BWV478 Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV1043: Largo ma non tanto St John Passion, BWV245: Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben': Jesu, bleibet meine Freude | Barber, S: | Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 | Beethoven: | Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 ‘Eroica' - Marcia funebre | Chopin: | Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 'Marche funèbre' | Elgar: | Nimrod (from Enigma Variations) Sursum corda, Op. 11 | Fauré: | Requiem: Pie Jesu Pavane, Op. 50 Requiem: Agnus Dei | Franck, C: | Panis Angelicus | Grainger: | Irish Tune from County Derry 'Danny Boy' | Grieg: | Peer Gynt: Ase's Death | Handel: | Messiah: I know that my Redeemer liveth Dead March from Saul | Mahler: | Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor - Adagietto | Massenet: | Méditation (from Thaïs) La Vierge: Le Dernier Sommeil de la vierge (Légende sacrée) | Mozart: | Introitus from Requiem | Pärt: | Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten | Purcell: | When I am laid in earth (from Dido and Aeneas) | Rachmaninov: | Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14 | Ravel: | Pavane pour une infante défunte | Verdi: | Agnus Dei (from Requiem) | Walton: | Henry V: Touch her soft lips and part |
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| |  | Romantic Classics
Bach, J S: | Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068: Air ('Air on a G String') | Beethoven: | Für Elise (Bagatelle in A minor, WoO59) Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight': Adagio sostenuto | Bruch: | Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 - Adagio | Chopin: | Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 Prelude Op. 28 No. 4 in E minor | Debussy: | Clair de Lune (from Suite Bergamasque) | Dvorak: | Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World' - Largo | Elgar: | Salut d'amour, Op. 12 Nimrod (from Enigma Variations) | Fauré: | Pavane, Op. 50 (extract) | Glazunov: | Petit Adagio from Scene IV of The Seasons | Grainger: | Irish Tune from County Derry 'Danny Boy' | Grieg: | Notturno from Lyric Suite, Op. 54 Peer Gynt: Solveig's Song | Khachaturian: | Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia | Liszt: | Liebestraum, S541 No. 3 (Nocturne in A flat major) | Mendelssohn: | Allegretto grazioso from Songs without Words, Bk V, Op. 62 | Mozart: | Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K467 'Elvira Madigan' - Andante | Myers: | Cavatina (from The Deerhunter) | Prokofiev: | Amoroso from Cinderella Suite No. 3, Op. 109 | Rachmaninov: | Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18: 2 - Adagio sostenuto Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14 Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 (extract) | Ravel: | Pavane pour une enfante défunte (extract) Piano Concerto in G major: Adagio assai | Rodrigo: | Concierto de Aranjuez: Adagio (extract) | Schumann: | Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Traümerei | Shostakovich: | Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102 - Andante | Tchaikovsky: | Romeo & Juliet - Love Theme | Vaughan Williams: | Fantasia on Greensleeves Serenade to Music (extract) | Vivaldi: | Winter from The Four Seasons (extract) | Walton: | Henry V: Touch her soft lips and part |
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| |  | Walton conducts WaltonThe 1964 New Zealand Tour
"William Walton's 1964 tour of New Zealand brings keen enjoyment. Walton's collaboration with Berl Senofsky in the Violin Concerto is particularly worth preserving, but throughout the set Walton and the NZSO make his music sound new, tart and challenging in a way that even accomplished recent performances have difficulty capturing"
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| |  | Music for Organ and Brass
Arthur Wills (Ely Cathedral organ) The Cambridge Co-Operative Band, David Read | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | 20th Century String Music
“Bartok's Divertimento shows how brilliantly Bournemouth's strings can respond to a gifted conductor.” BBC Music Magazine | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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