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2024-03-08 15:52:00
Lumen Christi: I chat to Master of Music, Simon Johnson about his first disc with the choir of Westminster Cathedral
Simon Johnson & the choir of Westminster Cathedral recording at Buckfast AbbeyAd Fontes, the record label founded by Buckfast Abbey, is releasing Lumen Christi on 22 March 2024. A sequence of sequence of music for the Easter Vigil from the choir of Westminster Cathedral, this will be a follow-up to the choir's Vexilla Regis disc on the label. The new disc features plainchant alongside music by Lassus, Andrew Reid, Victoria, Palestrina, Matthew Martin, Jean L'Heritier, Jean Langlais and Martin Baker. But perhaps more significantly, the disc is the first one for the choir under its current Master of Music, Simon Johnson. Simon became Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral in September 2021, following thirteen years as the Organist and Assistant Director of Music at St Paul’s Cathedral.The choir's disc Vexilla Regis, released in 2019, featured music for Holy Week so the new disc, with its focus on the Easter Vigil Liturgy […]
2024-01-24 07:45:00
NMC Recordings celebrates 35 years of supporting composers
Imogen Holst and Colin Matthews in 19842024 sees NMC celebrating its 35th birthday with a release schedule that continues to do what the label was founded to, supporting composers. 2024 will see new debut albums from Freya Waley-Cohen, Tom Coult, Lisa Illean, and Richard Baker, partnership projects with National Youth Choir and Philharmonia, and new collaboration with Drake Music Scotland, the Disabled Artist Network and Tŷ Cerdd.NMC will also be recording a new album of Imogen Holst's previously unreleased works, performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers, conducted by Alice Farnham. And on 3 July 2024, NMC joins forces with Spitalfields Festival for a special birthday concert celebrating 35 years of NMC.Composer Colin Matthews founded NMC in 1989 to remedy the almost non-existent representation of living British composers in the recording catalogues of major labels at the time. NMC’s work supporting the rich breadth of compositional talent from Britain and Ireland […]
2023-12-07 16:47:43
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2023-11-17 05:00:00
Bainbridge, Lloyd, Simpson, Vaughan Williams, Welsh Favourites & Tuba Concertos (Horenstein, Penny, Tilson Thomas et al)
[…] - 10 Alec Wilder (1907-1981) (arr. Rosenthal): Tuba Suite No. 1 'Effie the Elephant' [13'10]11 - 13 Michael Kenny (1939-): Tuba Concerto [14'53]14 - 17 Christer Danielsson (1942-1989): Concertante Suite for tuba and four horns [13'05]Peter Whish-Wilson- tuba, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra conducted by David StanhopeABC Classics 4765251 [recorded April and June 2001; first CD issue 2006][digital download; flacs, cover and booklet scans - inlay from later reissue]Recording venue: Adelaide Town Hall, South AustraliaRecording Engineer: Wayne Baker; Producer: Kevin RoperDownload from Mega.
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