Panayotis Archontides - Rooted Time - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

For Piano is a collection of pieces composed in a broadly classical style. It explores the variety of color, sound and tone achievable from one of the most versatile of all instruments, and is designed to be accessible to a wide range of players and listeners. (Hugh Benham) Hugh Benham was born at Westbury, Wiltshire in 1943, but has lived in Hampshire for most of his life. He read Music and English at the University of Southampton, where he was awarded a PhD for his study of the music of John Taverner. This work led to the writing of books and articles on early English music, and to the editing of John Taverner's complete works for Early English Church Music. Composition was an early if sporadic interest the first pieces that he acknowledges were short anthems composed in the mid 1970s. It was much later that work began to flow more freely and a useful body of music (choral, organ and piano) accumulated. A first recording made by Convivium Records in 2011 ('A Triumph Song', Convivium Singers, directed by Neil Ferris) led to increased activity and to a second album in 2019 ('Hugh Benham Sacred Choral Music', Convivium Singers, directed by Alexander Norman). English influences are obvious, but there have been explorations of music from France and, more recently, the Baltic states. Album Tracks 1. Airscape 2. Sonatina~1st movement 3. Sonatina~2nd movement 4. Sonatina~3rd movement 5. Barbara Allen (duet) 6. Landscape 7. Sonata~1st movement 8. Sonata~2nd movement 9. Sonata~3rd movement 10. Hampshire Night 11. Hampshire Morning 12. Little Suite~Aspiring 13. Little Suite~Recollecting Jubilee Hall 14. Little Suite~Musing 15. Little Suite~Circling and Rippling 16. Little Suite~Phoebe Falling Asleep 17. Little Suite~Dancing a Quadrille 18. Mice on the Farm 19. Finale (duet)

This album by the young ensemble Salaputia Brass is dedicated to works by composers from England. The English tradition with the different brass formations meets here on the one hand arranged classical works by Gustav Holst, an original work by Arthur Butterworth, through arranged pieces by Anthony Holborne to the cross-genre themes from James Bond to the Beatles All you need is Brass! They modestly call themselves Inchlittle fellowsInch (lat. Salaputia), but they have it all behind their ears - or rather, in their lips. Because nothing is too difficult for the young virtuosos from Salaputia Brass! The newcomers have already delighted in numerous concerts, including several times in the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival, at the Meran Brass Festival and as a guest on the ARTE TV program InchStars von MorgenInch. With their thematically designed programs, they manage the balancing act between the highest musical standards and entertaining listening pleasure for everyone. Album Tracks 1. Suite InchThe Fairie RoundInch 2. A Moorside Suite (H. 173) 3. Triton Suite Op. 46 4. Bond for Brass 5. From Koris By 6. All You Need Is Brass

Album Tracks 1. 1. Journey in the Stars - Air 2. 2. Star Song - Earth 3. 3. Universal Kingdom - a) Water, B) Fire 4. 1. Prologue 5. 2. Swift 6. 3. Tranquil (For Mozart) 7. 4. Lively (Dance) 8. 1. Prelude / 2. Idyll (Cadenza) 9. 3. Dance