Collegium 1704 - Orchestral Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Branford Marsalis is one of the most revered and renowned Jazz musicians in the world. THE SHEEP ANTHOLOGY is the first career-spanning collection of Branford's richest and most impassioned recordings for Columbia Records. Featuring 10 expansive tracks and over one hour of music, this stellar collection truly is the best of Branford Marsalis. THE STEEP ANTHOLOGY also includes one previously unreleased live recording. Album tracks include InchDoctone,Inch InchMaria,Inch InchRoyal Gardens Blues.Inch [Note This product is an authorized CD-R and is manufactured on demand].

Moeran / Georgiadis / Mccabe / Lpo / Boult - Orchestral Music [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/12/2007

SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce the tag debut of the acclaimed British composer Howard Blake with a disc of his orchestral music to mark his 85th birthday. Blake himself is heard at the piano and conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra, with Paul Daniel also conducting the English Northern Philharmonia. Internationally recognised as the composer of The Snowman's 'Walking on Air', Blake's prolific and wide-ranging achievements extend into symphonies, concertos, oratorios and music for solo piano to embrace the concert hall, dance stage and cinema screen. This focus on his orchestral music which includes four first recordings begins with his single- movement Symphony No.1 in it's 1990 revision, a richly variegated work of vivid images and, as it's title has it, Impressions of a City. A work of dazzling, multi-faceted dimensions and execution, it is, writes Robert Matthew-Walker in his authoritative booklet notes, an Inchorganic, truly symphonic, composition from a genuine creative figureInch. Concert Dances, for piano and orchestra, from 1992 and featuring Blake conducting from the piano, comprises nine relatively short dance movements in various styles to vivacious effect. Alluding to Eleanor of Aquitaine, 1979's The Court of Love is a ravishing concert suite of three movements drawn from Blake's ballet score for choreographer Lynn Seymour marking Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee two years previously. The suite taken from his soundtrack to the 1987 film A Month in the Country shows Blake at his most exquisite and expressive in a score, says Matthew-Walker, that Inchsurely belongs in any collection of 20th-century English music for string orchestraInch. SOMM's long championing of British composers includes recent discs devoted to Stephen Dodgson (SOMMCD 0659; 0673), Penelope Thwaites (SOMMCD 0612; 0672), Kenneth Leighton (SOMMCD 0667), Holst (SOMMCD 279), Ian