Gramophone Awards 2011 - Chamber and Recording of the Year Award
“The Pavel Haas Quartet play with plenty of feeling and they also relish the rhythmic cut and thrust of the Molto vivace third movement, capturing to perfection the more relaxed Trio''s sunny spirit.The final opens to a gentle smile then keys up for some dancing exuberance...there''s an abundance of varied drama” Gramophone Magazine, December 2010
Gramophone Awards 2011 - Contemporary Award Winner
“In a welcome if rare excursion into contemporary music, and recorded with tinglingly immediate atmosphere, the Hallé under Ryan Wigglesworth sound on top form throughout” Gramophone Magazine, October 2011
Collegium Vocale Gent
Bach: Motets – Collegium Vocale Gent/Herreweghe
So fast has the early music movement grown that it is difficult to believe that it''s 30 years since Philippe Herreweghe''s fresh-voiced choir first recorded the Bach motets. They now revisit these peerless masterpieces with young voices and a very varied approach to scoring. These days, directors tend to choose between one singer to a part, or a larger choral approach, sometimes doubling voices with instruments; Herreweghe does all three here with different motets. Jesu, meine freude with just five soloists and continuo is perfectly poised, while Singet dem Herrn (which Mozart so revered) and Der Geist hilft burst into life with more singers and instruments. Throughout, Herreweghe achieves a supremely flexible responsiveness to the texts.
The Observer, Sunday 14 August 2011
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- Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring; Firebird Suite; Scherzo; Tango
The recipe seems simple: take a simple melody of six notes and repeat it in the same order, accentuating a different note each time. For example:
1 2 3 4 2 5 1 2 3 4 2 5 1 2 3 4 2 5
Here we have the beginning of the Sacre du Printemps (with a short transition between lines 2 and 3)!
Next step: add a rhythmic pattern and repeat it many times. Prepare a few of these and combine them thoroughly until you get a polyrhythmic and polytonal mix! Finished.
“Alter Bridge Live At Wembley” is a stunning show shot in HD and 3D on November 29, 2011 at the historic Wembley Arena in London in front of a sold out crowd of over 10,000 die-hard fans. The show is the most significant moment in the band’s 8-year career, as their goal from day one was to play Wembley. The band ripped through a 21 song set featuring songs from all 3 of their albums including the hits: “Rise Today”, “Watch Over You”, “Blackbird”, “Ghosts Of Days Gone By” and “Isolation”. The film was directed by Award-winning Director Daniel E Catullo III, who also produced and directed the band’s previous DVD “Live From Amsterdam”. The package also includes a one-hour documentary “The Road To Wembley”, a live CD with 16 songs and a photo gallery.
• The BBC One season of three Sherlock Holmes films was the summer hit of 2010 with over 7.5m viewers watching the first episode • Starring Benjamin Cumberbatch (Small Island) in the title role and Martin Freeman (The Office) as Dr. Watson the stories cleverly bring Conan Doyle’s famous characters into the world of modern day London • A second series of three episodes will premiere on BBC One in January 2012
- Sherlock - Original TV Soundtrack Music From Series Two
• The BBC One season of three Sherlock Holmes films was the summer hit of 2010 with over 7.5m viewers watching the first episode • The second series launched this January has averaged 8m viewers an episode and has become the TV hit of 2012 with massive media attention • The music, composed by David Arnold and Michael Price, received BAFTA and Emmy nominations and won an RTS Television Award • David Arnold is one of the UK’s leading film composers, penning the scores to a host of blockbuster movies including Stargate, Independence Day, 2 Fast 2 Furious and replacing John Barry as Bond composer • Michael Price is a multi-talented composer, music editor and arranger whose credits include Band Of Brothers, The Lord Of The Rings and Love Actually.
‘Birtwistle’s most impressive orchestral canvas to date ... Birtwistle comes across as an old master.’ FINANCIAL TIMES ON THE SHADOW OF NIGHT
Sir Harrison Birtwistle is one of Britain’s leading composers and has received many honours, including the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1986 and a British knighthood in 1988. He was made a Companion of Honour in 2001 and is currently Director of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Owen Slade is one of London’s most versatile tuba players: in addition to his many classical performances, including the premiere performance of Birtwistle’s The Cry of Anubis, he has worked with artists such as Blur, Barry Manilow and Quincy Jones.
• A truly unique set (the only one on the market!):The Richard Strauss Edition. • Contains a wealth of repertoire: the complete Orchestral Works, the complete Chamber Music, a generous selection of songs, the most famous operas and a disc of rare choral works. • A fitting tribute to one of the most important Late-Romantic composers, who for such a long period reflected his “Zeitgeist” in his fascinating and highly personal music. • A star studded line-up of famous Strauss interpreters: Rudolf Kempe and his Staatskapelle Dresden (a Strauss orchestra par excellence!), Herbert von Karajan, Joseph Keilberth, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Karl Böhm, and vocalists Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Alessandra Marc, Deborah Voigt, Anne Sofie von Otter, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Charlotte Margiono. • Containing a historical recording of songs accompanied by Richard Strauss himself on the piano. • Liner notes included on CD-ROM.
For his 3rd album on Phi, his new label published by the group Outhere, Philippe Herreweghe has brought together a splendid set of artists in the Lutoslawski hall in Warsaw. Ann Hallenberg, whose voice won over the public of some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, takes on the Rhapsody for contralto solo and men's chorus by Brahms while the rest of the programme leads the listener through his essential works for chorus and orchestra. Herreweghe’s long-time affinity with the composer of A German Requiem has enabled him to provide a coherent and personal vision of those musical pages in which Brahms gave free course to his most intimate thoughts.
I first heard this recording as I was being driven by my friend Stuart Douglas, Alex Campbell’s cousin, round Lake Ontario on the way to Toronto. He put a cassette into the player, without saying a word, and I was amazed to hear Sandy Denny and Alex swapping songs and chatting away. Stuart had found the tape in Glasgow in Patsy Campbell’s house after she died but, as a cassette, it was unusable for release.
MOSCODISC is pleased to announce release for Eleanor McEvoy's 9th studio album Alone; a beautiful collection of 13 stripped-down numbers. One of Ireland's most accomplished singer/songwriters, Eleanor McEvoy's life as a musician began at the age of four and has remained the primary focus of her years since. She has released albums on the Geffen and Columbia record labels and continues to tour the world over to her ever increasing legions of fans. The classic ‘A Woman's Heart’ (new recording included on Alone), still remains the biggest selling Irish record in Eire.
Vivaldi joined the staff of the Ospedale della Pietà in September 1703 as Maestro di Violin. Established in the 14th century, the Pietà was one of four charitable Venetian orphanages for women supported by the state. Vivaldi’s instrumental chamber works cannot be dated with any certainty, nor do we know for whom they were written. Despite this lack of information, we can surmise he produced them for his pupils at the Pietà, perhaps during the late 1720's and 1730's.
Composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and librettist James Goldman’s landmark 1971 musical returns to Broadway in a production The New York Times raved “(makes) you realize anew just why Follies is one of the greatest musicals ever written.”
A bittersweet look at the follies of youth seen through the eyes of age and experience, this new production stars two-time Tony Award-winner Bernadette Peters as Sally Durant Plummer, four-time Tony Award-nominee Jan Maxwell as Phyllis Rogers Stone, two-time Tony Award-nominee Danny Burstein as Buddy Plummer, three-time Emmy Award-nominee Ron Raines as Benjamin Stone and four-time Olivier Award-nominee Elaine Paige as Carlotta Campion, under the direction of Eric Schaeffer.
The original music from Doctor Who Series 6. Murray Gold's amazing
music for Doctor Who goes from strength to strength. The seventh Doctor
Who release of Murray Gold's exhilarating music looks sets to follow in
the footsteps of its predecessors which have scored outstanding sales
and chart positions including three of the titles featuring in the top
75 UK Album Chart. Murray Gold's musical career spans , cinema, TV,
stage and radio and his extensive list of achievements includes Queer As
Folk, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), Casanova, Alien Autopsy, The
Devil's Whore, Shameless and Torchwood. Six years of composing music
for Doctor Who has led to his work being performed at a special Proms
concert at the Royal Albert Hall, a celebration of the music at the
Millennium Centre Cardiff and a place in the Classic FM Hall Of Fame.
