Gill Sans SUBS 13th Apr 2024 | | Classical ItemWestminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell - Panis Angelicus | Faire Is the Heaven:
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Hymne à la Vierge, Op. 24:
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Gill Sans SUBS 12th Apr 2024 | | Classical ItemAnthony Rolfe Johnson, Corydon Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best - Britten: Saint Nicolas · Hymn To Saint Cecilia | This recording has now been re-released on Helios CDH55378 so all tracks are now on YT.
VII. Nicolas and the Pickled Boys:
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Hymn to St Cecilia, Op. 27:
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Gill Sans SUBS 11th Apr 2024 | | Classical ItemWilfred Brown, John Shirley-Quirk, Dame Janet Baker, Ian Partridge - British Composers: Finzi, Vaughan Williams, Holst | [YouTube Video]
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Gill Sans SUBS 9th Apr 2024 | | Classical ItemYehudi Menuhin, Polish Chamber Orchestra, Jerzy Maksymiuk - Vivaldi | Forgivable typo for conductor's name on rear tray artwork.
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Gill Sans SUBS 8th Apr 2024 | | Classical ItemOlive Bloom, Spencer Dyke, Bernard Shore, B. Patterson Parker - Pianoforte Quartet In C Minor, Op. 60 | Yes, but who was B. Patterson Parker?
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Gill Sans SUBS 7th Apr 2024 | | Classical ItemMr. Mendels - Side A SECTIONBREAKTesoro Mio / Side B SECTIONBREAKLa Séduction (Seduzione) | [YouTube Video]
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Gill Sans SUBS 6th Apr 2024 | | Classical ItemOtto Kyndel - Side A SECTIONBREAKIntermezzo / Romance | Intermezzo was the theme tune from the 1936 Swedish film Intermezzo, which was remade in the USA in 1939.
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Gill Sans SUBS 5th Apr 2024 | | Classical ItemNew London Chamber Choir, The Voronezh Chamber Choir - Stravinsky: Les Noces And Other Choral Music | Pleasant enough, but the only connection with Stravinsky or the Voronezh District is that both are Russian. This video is of a piece by Georgy Sviridov, not yet on here.
Slightly more relevant would be a video of The Lord's Prayer by Stravinsky, but this recording has not yet found its way onto YT. Meanwhile, here is a recording by an uncredited choir:
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Gill Sans SUBS 3rd Apr 2024 | | Classical ItemChristoph Berg - Paraphrases | Christoph Berg writes slow, post-minimalist works, and releases his recordings digitally and on limited-edition physical media. Quiet Times at the Library is typical:
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Gill Sans SUBS 3rd Apr 2024 | | Classical ItemSteven Osborne - Debussy: Préludes | [YouTube Video]
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Gill Sans SUBS 2nd Apr 2024 | | Classical ItemKim Robertson - Wind Shadows | Composer typo on track 15, should be Connellan.
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Gill Sans SUBS 31st Mar 2024 | | Classical ItemBaroque Ensemble Of The Merseyside Kammermusik Gesellschaft - The Baroque Beatles Book | ReviewJoshua Rifkin describes how, as a young music graduate, he found himself writing the complete set of parodies of the Beatles hits which were taking the USA by storm in 1965, and being rewarded by the hiring of some of the best session players in town; I would love to know a few of their names.
This starts with an attractive Baroque Ouverture:
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Gill Sans SUBS 31st Mar 2024 | | Classical ItemOrchestra Of The Vienna State Opera - Brahms: Hungarian Dances | [YouTube Video]
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Gill Sans SUBS 30th Mar 2024 | | Classical ItemThe Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel - The Complete New English Hymnal | See PRCD 701 for an introduction to the Complete New English Hymnal Series.
Hymn 82
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Gill Sans SUBS 29th Mar 2024 | | Classical ItemThe Sixteen, Harry Christophers - Spirit, Strength And Sorrow | [YouTube Video]
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Gill Sans SUBS 26th Mar 2024 | | Classical ItemCraig Burston And Joe Evans - Systems Out Of Chance | Systems out of Chance is an audiovisual installation by Craig Burston and Joe Evans. Joe Evans work under the name runningonair is an amalgam of melody, tone, mechanical rhythms, found sound and even spam e-mails. The scored music creates the environment in which to view each piece.
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Gill Sans SUBS 26th Mar 2024 | | Classical ItemThe Choir Of Llandaff Cathedral - The Complete New English Hymnal | See PRCD 701 for an introduction to the Complete New English Hymnal Series.
Hymn 90:
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Gill Sans SUBS 24th Mar 2024 | | Classical ItemClare College Chapel Choir - Tudor Anthems; From The Oxford Book Of Tudor Anthems | [YouTube Video]
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Gill Sans SUBS 24th Mar 2024 | | Classical ItemVarious Artists - Ralph Vaughan Williams | This recording of Serenade To Music has been remastered and issued on 22nd Mar 2024 with several other historical recordings, on Albion ALBCD059.
Previously remastered and released in 2022 on Somm ARIADNE5018:
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Gill Sans SUBS 23rd Mar 2024 | | Classical ItemDaniel Cook - The Complete Organ Works Of Sir William Harris | [YouTube Video]
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Gill Sans SUBS 23rd Mar 2024 | | Classical ItemThe Alberni Quartet - Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti: Chamber Works For String Quartet | [YouTube Video]
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Gill Sans SUBS 22nd Mar 2024 | | Classical ItemFrances White - In The Library Of Dreams | Frances describes herself "I am a composer particularly known for my works combining live instruments and computer-generated electronic sound spaces"
You can hear The book of roses and memory on Soundcloud. The performers are Frances White, electronics, Liuh-Wen Ting, viola and Thomas Buckner, narrator.
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Gill Sans SUBS 21st Mar 2024 | | Classical ItemLatvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Kļava - Sacred Love | The title track is the standout track on this album:
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Gill Sans SUBS 21st Mar 2024 | | Classical ItemKronos Quartet - Bob Ostertag: All The Rage | “All the Rage was developed from a
recording I made of a riot in San Francisco in
October, 1991, which followed California
Governor Pete Wilson’s veto of a bill designed
to protect gays and lesbians from
discrimination. 4 “First I sifted through the
recording and isolated those sections that to
my ear suggested music. Some of these
involved screaming, whistles, or windows
being smashed. Two were based on slogans
chanted by the crowd (‘We’re Not Going Back’
and ‘Queers Fight Back’). Two more were based
on individual voices (one shouting ‘Go for it,’
and several people yelling ‘Burn it’ as the
California state office building caught fire).
I then developed these fragments into full
musical structures through various digital
editing techniques, and added the text."
(Bob Ostertag)
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Gill Sans SUBS 19th Mar 2024 | | Classical ItemThe Ural Choir, Vladislav Novik - Sviridov · Sacred And Secular Choruses | This choir from central Russia displays the fine tradition of singing of that country, with the expected deep bass chorus; sadly, no soloists are credited.
Here is the tragic Marian Prayer from "Tsar Feodor Ivanovitch":
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Gill Sans SUBS 19th Mar 2024 | | Classical ItemRadio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Gustav Kuhn - Schubert: Rosamunde | Also released on Classics For Pleasure in the UK
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Gill Sans SUBS 19th Mar 2024 | | Classical ItemArmistice Day - Armistice Day | Who could be the performers here? Maybe Shazam could tell us!
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Gill Sans SUBS 18th Mar 2024 | | Classical ItemRachel Yakar - Louis-Nicolas Clérambault: Orphée | [YouTube Video]
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Gill Sans SUBS 16th Mar 2024 | | Classical ItemNeuer Kammerchor Berlin, Adrian Emans - Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants | Debut recording by Neuer Kammerchor Berlin led by Adrian Emans, mostly of works by contemporary composers.
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Gill Sans SUBS 15th Mar 2024 | | Classical ItemBerlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Von Karajan - Bartok/Hindemith | I presume this was a DGG recording; it was reissued on CD in 2007, as credited on this video:
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