Michael Sheppard - Through Broken Time - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Promenade 2. I. Gnomus 3. Promenade 4. II. Old Castle 5. Promenade 6. III. Tuileries 7. IV. Bydlo 8. Promenade 9. V. Ballet of the Chickens in Their Shells 10. VI. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle 11. Promenade 12. VII. the Market-Place at Limoges 13. VIII. Catacombae (Sepulcrum Romanum) - 14. VIII. Con Mortuis in Lingua Mortua 15. IX. the Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaga) 16. X. the Great Gate at Kiev 17. No. 1. Noctuelles 18. No. 2. Oiseaux Tristes 19. No. 3. Une Barque Sur L'ocean 20. No. 4. Alborada Del Gracioso 21. No. 5. La Vallee Des Cloches

Jean-Marie Leclair's violin sonatas embody a stylistic fusion known as les goûts réunis in which the lyricism and the virtuosity of the Italian school are integrated with the dance idioms of French Baroque music. In this volume, the music reaches new heights of technical complexity in it's filigree ornamentation and continuous multiple stopping while still incorporating much wistful beauty. In the Sonata in D major, however, Leclair's ambition expands yet further, as he combines innate lyricism and rustic drones in a prototype concerto form. Album Tracks 1. Violin Sonata in B minor, Op. 5, No. 5 2. Violin Sonata in C minor, Op. 5, No. 6 'Le Tombeau' 3. Violin Sonata in a Minor, Op. 5, No. 7 4. Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 5, No. 8

Hafliði Hallgrímsson (b.1941) is widely regarded as Iceland's pre-eminent composer, as well as a highly accomplished cellist. He studied with Enrico Mainardi and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and was cellist with many leading chamber ensembles until devoting himself full time to composition in 1983. Also, in 1970, Hallgrímsson played the (uncredited) cello solo on InchAtom Heart MotherInch by Pink Floyd. His voice is extremely distinctive and within modernist styles can communicate 'serious' emotions of loss and sorrow and also intensive wit and charm as demonstrated so well by his Klee Sketches on this recording. The Klee Sketches are dedicated to Peter Sheppard Skærved, the performer here. Peter Sheppard Skærved is known for his pioneering approach to the music of the past and our own time. Over 400 works have been written for him. Peter's exhaustive work on music for violin alone has resulted in research, performances and recordings of cycles by Bach, de Bériot, Tartini, Telemann, and, most recently, his project, 'Preludes and Vollenteries', which brings together 200 unknown works from the seventeenth century. His dedicated support of contemporary music (especially with his ensembles, the Kreutzer Quartet and Longbow), is considerable. He is also an accomplished painter and a published writer on many subjects. Album Tracks 1. Klee Sketches, Op. 32 - Book One 2. Offerto in Memoriam Karl Kvara, Op. 13 3. Klee Sketches, Op. 32 - Book Two