Nicholas Walker - Comp Music for Viola & Piano - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. The World You're Coming Into 2. Waltz of the Snowflakes

The two choirs of St Catharine's College, Cambridge return to Resonus Classics to collaborate once more on a new recording of contemporary works for Advent and Christmas. Featuring many world premiere recordings, the programme includes works written specially for the two college choirs including Diana Burrell's exuberant carol, Green groweth the holly; Christopher Fox's major new setting of the O Anitphons, interspersed with the original plainchant, and Jeremy Thurlow's Magnificat for upper voices, organ and tape, that blazes with the intensity of a new vision of the world. Album Tracks 1. My Guardian Angel 2. Nativity 3. Advent 'O' Carol 4. Magnificat 5. Green Groweth the Holly 6. O Sapientia 7. O Antiphons I. Alpha and O 8. O Adonai 9. O Antiphons II. in a Flame of Fire 10. O Radix Jesse 11. O Antiphons III. Our Grace 12. O Clavis David 13. O Antiphons IV. Open the Gate 14. O Oriens 15. O Antiphons V. Morning Star 16. O Rex Gentium 17. O Antiphons VI. a Cornerstone 18. O Emmanuel 19. O Antiphons VII. Trust Above All 20. Magnificat

This final volume in Nicholas Walker's much-admired survey of the complete solo piano music of Balakirev includes the composer's famous work for piano, Islamey, an exotic and ultra-virtuoso oriental tale. Also featured are previously unpublished and unrecorded miniatures - pieces that are both poetic and, in the case of the Elegy on the Death of a Mosquito, witty. Transcriptions of Glinka are included, and Walker has arranged Balakirev's passionate and sensual symphonic poem Tamara for solo piano, recreating textures redolent of the composer's own piano style. He also plays Au Jardin, an Idyll-Étude of rapt beauty and tenderness. Album Tracks 1. Fileuse (The Spinner) 2. Au Jardin (In the Garden) - Idyll-Étude 3. Kamarinskaya 4. Tamara 5. Polka in F Sharp minor 6. Elegy on the Death of a Mosquito 7. Danse de Sorcières (Witches Dance) 8. Ne Govori Lyubov' Proydyot (Do Not Say Love Passes Away) 9. Tyrolienne 10. Rêverie 11. Toccata in C Sharp minor 12. Farewell to St Petersburg - No. 10. Zhavoronok (The Lark) 13. Islamey (Fantasie Orientale)