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Rosalind Ventris - Sola: Music for Viola by Women Composers (2023)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 27 Jan 2023 11:17:41
Rosalind Ventris - Sola: Music for Viola by Women Composers (2023)

Rosalind Ventris - Sola: Music for Viola by Women Composers (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 64:30 | 298 / 146 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Delphian Records

Rosalind Ventris’s debut solo album features a selection of music for unacccompanied viola composed between 1930 (Imogen Holst’s impressive Suite for Viola) and the present day (a 2020 lockdown miniature by Thea Musgrave). The largely British and Irish programme allows Ventris to revive substantial works by important yet still often overlooked twentieth-century composers – not only Holst but also Lillian Fuchs, Elizabeth Maconchy, Elisabeth Lutyens and Gra_yna Bacewicz – alongside more recent additions to the repertoire from Musgrave, Sally Beamish and Amanda Feery. With several of the composers themselves professional string players, this is, in Ventris’s words, ‘wonderful music – that just happens to be by women composers’.
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Bojan Čičić, The Illyria Consort - Johann Jakob Walther: Scherzi da violino solo (2022)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 26 Aug 2022 07:09:53
Bojan Čičić, The Illyria Consort - Johann Jakob Walther: Scherzi da violino solo (2022)

Bojan Čičić, The Illyria Consort - Johann Jakob Walther: Scherzi da violino solo (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:40:45 | Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: 2022 Delphian Records Ltd.

Johann Jakob Walther was one of the most significant violinists in Germany in the generation before Johann Sebastian Bach, and Bojan Čičić believes his music should be essential listening for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of Bach’s polyphonic writing for the instrument. Having built their reputation with a series of Delphian recordings focussing on "missing link" composers, Čičić and his Illyria Consort are passionate about bringing Walther’s collection of Scherzi da violino to the wider audience it deserves. This first complete recording displays the sheer ambition of Walther’s opus, with highlights including his demonstration of the violin’s polyphonic potential in the D major Sonata (No. III); the joyful playfulness of the end of No. IV; the inventiveness of the Imitatione del cuccu; and – Bojan Čičić’s personal favourite – the dramatic melancholy of the final Aria in E minor.
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Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Christopher Glynn, Frances Leviston - Martin Suckling: The Tuning (2022)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 7 Jun 2022 16:18:07
Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Christopher Glynn, Frances Leviston - Martin Suckling: The Tuning (2022)

Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Christopher Glynn, Frances Leviston - Martin Suckling: The Tuning (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:15:37 | 248 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Delphian Records Ltd.

The everyday is transfigured in this intimate collection of chamber music and songs by leading young Scottish composer Martin Suckling – settings for mezzo-soprano and piano of five magical, moonlit poems by Michael Donaghy and a String Quintet written in collaboration with the poet Frances Leviston, whose readings of her own texts frame the four movements of a piece which pays dual homage to Schubert and to Emily Dickinson. Nocturne for violin and cello bears witness to Suckling’s night vigils at the composing desk, setting down his pen as the stillness starts to ripple with birdsong, while the cello solo Her Lullaby is a nostalgic reflection on the early years of parenthood that also displays Suckling’s characteristically refined harmonic palette.
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Maximiliano Martín, Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife & Lucas Macías Navarro - Caprices Laments: Clarinet Concertos by Nielsen

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 22 Dec 2021 12:51:42
Maximiliano Martín, Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife & Lucas Macías Navarro - Caprices Laments: Clarinet Concertos by Nielsen

Maximiliano Martín, Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife & Lucas Macías Navarro - Caprices & Laments: Clarinet Concertos by Nielsen, Copland & MacMillan (2021)
FLAC tracks | 01:02:51 | 275 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Delphian

The benevolent shadow of Mozart meets a strain of emotional turbulence in Carl Nielsen’s unforgettable, at times inscrutable Clarinet Concerto – his last major orchestral work, completed three years before his death in 1931. Dating from two decades later, Aaron Copland’s concerto for the same instrument similarly bridges stylistic and expressive contrasts: composed with the genre-crossing expertise of Benny Goodman in mind, it brings a vein of lyrical sadness together with the verve of mid-century popular idioms from both the USA and Brazil.James MacMillan’s Tuireadh, meanwhile, is a single-minded outpouring of grief, raising instruments to an almost vocal quality of expression in a lament for the victims of the Piper Alpha oil-rig fire. Clarinettist Maximiliano Martín – an internationally active soloist as well as principal clarinet of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra – is joined here by the symphony orchestra of his native Tenerife in three works which truly cover the gamut of human emotion.
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Samuele Telari - Bach: Goldberg Variations (2021)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 23 Jul 2021 20:08:54
Samuele Telari - Bach: Goldberg Variations (2021)

Samuele Telari - Bach: Goldberg Variations (2021)
FLAC tracks / MP3 320 kbps | 1:32:55 | 450 / 212 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Delphian Records Ltd.

‘This recording’, says accordionist Samuele Telari, ‘is one that I felt compelled to make. Every time I play Bach’s Goldberg Variations I realise that something changes inside me, and as a consequence in my interpretation as well. The piece is a kind of mirror into which I can look and see what is inside me. Finally, after performing it many times in concert over several years, I felt ready to fix a version in a recording.’
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Nicky Spence, Michael Mofidian, Mhairi Lawson - Erik Chisholm: Songs (2021)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 26 Jun 2021 10:17:34
Nicky Spence, Michael Mofidian, Mhairi Lawson - Erik Chisholm: Songs (2021)

Nicky Spence, Michael Mofidian, Mhairi Lawson - Erik Chisholm: Songs (2021)
FLAC tracks / MP3 320 kbps | 1:07:47 | 238 / 151 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Delphian Records

Erik Chisholm made his home as a musician in South Africa but it was in the Gaelic folk tunes of his native Scotland that he found lifelong inspiration for his songs.Modern yet instantly accessible and engaging, and revelling in the Scots language, their apparent simplicity belies the composer’s sophisticated craftsmanship.The master of twentieth-century song, Iain Burnside, and three of the brightest stars in the rmament of Scottish singers bring out the individual characters of these pieces, by turns haunting, tender and irreverent, making of each one a uniquely coloured little jewel.
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