Dvorak / Pre / Vishnevskaya - Cello Concerto in a Minor / Cello Concerto - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In an album that includes world-premiere recordings, Michael Waldron and the London Choral Sinfonia perform Francis Grier's modern-day Passion, Sword in the Soul, to texts by Rowan Williams narrated by Simon Callow, Samantha Bond and Adrian Peacock. Alongside Grier's Sword in the Soul, we hear Lux Eterna, the profoundly moving choral setting of Elgar's famous 'Nimrod' from his Enigma Variations, as well as a rarely-heard piece by Elgar recorded only once before the intensely poignant We Will Remember Them, a beautiful and simple a cappella arrangement of a famous text. The album also features music by contemporary composer David Bednall, and LCS's Composer in Residence Owain Park. Album Tracks 5. Sword in the Soul~V. O Lord, Thou Hast Duped Me 8. Sword in the Soul~VIII. Narration 4 14. Phos hilaron~Hail, Gladdening Light

From the early days of the twentieth century until the Anschluss forced him into American exile, Richard Stohr (1874-1967) was one of the more prominent personalities in Viennese musical life, as composer, teacher and author. Earlier releases in this series of recordings revealed him to have an individual voice, somewhere between Bruckner, Mahler, Korngold and Strauss. It can be heard in it's full glory in his Chamber Symphony of 1912, a sunlit score modest in it's orchestral demands but expansive in it's ambit and generous in it's ceaseless flow of gorgeous melody. Album Tracks 1. Chamber Symphony in F major, Op. 32, for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, strings and harp~I. Allegro 2. Chamber Symphony in F major, Op. 32, for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, strings and harp~II. Andante quasi marcia 3. Chamber Symphony in F major, Op. 32, for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, strings and harp~III. Allegro 4. Chamber Symphony in F major, Op. 32, for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, strings and harp~IV. Un poco grave - Allegro

Shards is a oneness of performance and transformation, transformation as performance. As Jason Moran and Marcus Gilmore play, BlankFor. Ms records micro fragments of time and sends them back to his collaborators sped up, slowed down, reversed, broken into ever tinier grains of data and smeared into a sparkling blur. Moran and Gilmore receive glimpses into their immediate past, or even further back in time, like they're playing into a broken mirror - not just cracked in it's visual plane, but in the sense of it's shards shattering time and light, showing them past and future. Album Tracks 1. Shard I 2. Tape Loop a Echo 3. Shard II 4. Shard III 5. Barbershop 6. And the Pieces Are Falling 7. Shard IV 8. Shard V