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Music of the avant-garde more information
Buxtehude: A tercentenary tribute
Douglas Hollick performs on the Metzler organ in the Chapel of Trinity College Cambridge, and on a single manual harpsichord based on the 1638 transposing double by Joannes Ruckers.
Included are works by Buxtehude, Frescobaldi, Sweelinck, Scheidemann, Rossi, Froberger, Weckmann, Kerll, and J C Bach.
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'This organ, was originally built by that celebrated Artist, commonly called, Father Smith, and erected in its present form, by Robert Gray; of London, 1775.'
This inscription on the frontboard of the organ at Dingestow Court, with most of its pipes being made around 1680 and its present case and mechanism dating from 1775, immediately suggests two different repertoires of music: the Restoration and the Georgian. Moreover, since the late Elizabethan/Jacobean composers such as Byrd, Gibbons and Tomkins, remain established in the late 17th century, it is appropriate to include pieces by them as well, thus giving three distinct and contrasting repertoires, all of which are appropriate to this organ of the utmost historical significance.
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Veer more
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Four String quartets by Ian Wilson.
Written during an 18-month spell around the turn of the milennium, the three numbered quartets on this disc represent a key period in Ian Wilson's career. Although he made his home in Belgrade in 1998, a year later the NATO bombing campaign forced relocation to the Republic of Ireland. The fourth, Fifth and Sixth quartets were written shortly after this and the Fifth, ...wander, darkling, particularly bears the scars of this traumatic time.
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Equinox
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Playing new music is a voyage of discovery, an unpredicatable and exciting journey. All of the works here are well-crafted, idiomatic pieces that demonstrate the variety of textures, techniques and colours of the guitar. This collection alone shows how diverse new music for guitar is, and includes works by Elliot Carter, Pete Wyer, Peter Sculthorpe, Gilbert Biberian, Philip Cashian, Takemitsu, Piers Hellawell, Louis Andriesson and Michael Zev Gordon.
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Mychel Melodye more
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The music for this recording ranges from 12th to 15th centuries and includes several early Troubadour and Trouvere pieces of which we are particularly fond. We play on reproduction instruments which we have collected over the years, among them some made by David Marshall who founded the group.
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Parthenia more information
Parthenia, or the Maydenhead (1613), performed by Dr. David Ponsford is the most important of all early publications of English keyboard music. The book was the first printed music for virginals, the first attempt in England to print music from copper plates, the first carefully arranged miscellaneous anthology of keyboard music anywhere and contains twenty-one keyboard pieces by three of England's finest composers - William Byrd, John Bull, and Orlando Gibbons.
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REVOLUTION more information
The half century from roughly 1770 to 1820 span an incredible period of change and unrest in Europe. Central to the period is the French Revolution which started in 1789, and which in various ways affected the whole of the rest of Europe. This programme of works, performed by Douglas Hollick, brings together some of the French keyboard music of this turbulent period, enabling the listener to appreciate the wide range of styles which co-existed and the great changes which took place.
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The
Glory and the Dream
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In
1998 the New Cambridge Singers, and fifteen other choirs from
as far afield as Australia, Canada, Iceland, the UK and the
USA invited Sir Richard Rodney Bennett to write a major work
for choir and organ to celebrate the Millennium. This CD provides
the world premiere recording of this work, along with another
world premiere, 'Invocation' by Christopher Brown, and 'Five
Flower Songs', by Benjamin Britten.
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Buxtehude,
master and pupil
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Internationally renowned organist and harpsichordist Douglas
Hollick performs music by Buxtehude, his teachers Lorentz and
Scheidemann and pupils Leiding and Bruhns. The programme presents
a fascinating insight into the music and influence of one of
the most important composers of the 17th Century, and is performed
on the reconstructed organ in Sct Maria Helsingør, where
Buxtehude was organist for eight years.
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I
Thirst more
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I Thirst is a reflection of twenty years of music by the composer
Robin Walker. Images of India, religious expression, and the colour
of Robin's life in the Yorkshire Pennines give this disc a rich
and lively heritage.
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In Blue Sea
or Sky more
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On her first solo CD, Clíona Doris performs contemporary
harp music from Britain and Ireland. The CD includes world premiere
recordings of works by two of Ireland's major compositional
voices, Brian Boydell and Ian Wilson, as well as Benjamin Britten's
Suite for Harp, and music by William Mathias and Sir Hamilton
Harty.
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SOMNIA
IMPERII more
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Roman music, composed by David Marshall. Performed on reconstructed
instruments by Praecones Provinciae Britanniae.
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Wayting for
Christmas more
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Carols & Festive Music played on historical instruments
by The Troubadours
Carols bring with them their own moods,
pictures and personal associations. The stock is vast, so we
have chosen those which suit the instruments used. We hope you
will find some old favourites amongst the selection and enjoy
hearing them performed in a way which may be new to you.
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Sad
Steps more
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New settings of renaissance poems. In 1998, the members
of Virelai conceived the idea of commissioning a series of new
settings of renaissance love poems. Renaissance words, renaissance
instruments, contemporary settings: this project ties together
the worlds of early and contemporary music, and raises many interesting
questions about composition, performance, text setting, the use
of early instruments for new music and the relationship of old
to new generally. Riverrun is very excited to release this CD,
the result of four years labour of love.
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Moyreau more
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Pièces de Clavecin 1753: a set of harpsichord and organ
pieces by the little-known, but extraordinary, French Baroque
composer, Christophe Moyreau. The music is given an outstanding
performance by Douglas Hollick, and for the most part is world-premiere
recording.
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Chevrefoil
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This collection of Medieval, and early Renaissance pieces form
a part of the tale of Tristan and Isolde, known as 'Lai du chevrefoil',
or 'The tale of the honeysuckle'.
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Images
of Melancholy more
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In this recording, we alternate readings from Corpus Hermeticum
with music based on John Dowland's famous Lachrimae theme,
including his Lachrimae or Seaven Teares of 1604 for five viols
and lute, and other pieces by Giles Farnaby, Anthony Holborne,
Thomas Weelkes and the contemporary composer Andrew Wilson-Dickson.
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Chroma
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Our newly-released CD, which is performed by the chamber
ensemble CHROMA, centres on the image of SYRINX: Pan sitting
by the water in which his reflection shimmers. But SYRINX
is also central to this music: chromatic fragments forming
potent cells, unpredictable rhythms and phrase lengths giving
way to soaring melodies, a distant memory of tonal harmonies,
the colouristic use of instrumental effects. All these come
together with exquisite effect to evoke a mood, a scene and
yet retain their essence as pure music.
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String Quartets more
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These quartets are reflections on philosphical or spiritual subjects.
QUARTET no.1 is a meditation on the Manduyka Upanishad,
a primary text of the philosophy of non-duality. QUARTET
no.2 describes the move from active worldly considerations
to the stillness of a disciplined mind.
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Quickening
the Dead more
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This collection of chamber pieces spans a period of six years
of Andrew Keeling's work, from 'O Ignis Spiritus',
written in 1993 for The Hilliard Ensemble, to 'One Flesh',
written in 1999 for Susanna Pell and Jacob Heringman.
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Secrets of the Heavens
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Experience the music of the spheres with this new CD recording
of the 'Hymns of Orpheus', translated from Greek into
Latin in the 15th century, now set to music by The Marini
Consort with the singers Catherine King and Mark Tucker
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The
Shakespeare Suite more
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Eleven Shakespeare character studies for chamber ensemble.
Written in a highly accessible and tuneful contemporary concert
music style, these portraits span the comedies, histories
and tragedies. The result is a tapestry as varied and exciting
as the plays themselves and the characters portrayed
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