Schonberg / Rondeleux / Boulez - Arnold Schonberg: Serenade 24 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Judith Weir, CBE, composer and, Master of the Queen's Music, writes InchEd Hughes' refreshing, cultured, lovingly patterned music is built around a thoroughly contemporary theme; our present-day contemplation of landscape, and how we give it the attention and respect it deserves. Via music, the composer suggests, which works like the weather on a hilly walk in the South Downs. Our perceptions constantly change and re-energise as we encounter familiar objects while colors, shadings and vegetation are in a constant flow of development. The same can be certainly said of all the works in this rich collection, which surge forward with textural warmth and harmonic continuity.Inch Ed Hughes' music has been recognized for it's outstanding craft and originality; operas, silent film, chamber, orchestral and piano works have been premiered around the world and recorded for Métier with commissions from Mahogany Opera Group, Brighton Festival, Glyndebourne, London Sinfonietta, I Faglioni and other leading ensembles. The South Downs is a range of chalk hills extending about 260 square miles across the South East of England. Ed Hughes's music has special qualities which, like the area that inspired it, have universal appeal. Album Tracks 1. Flint 2. Nonet 3. Lunar 4. The Woods So Wild

Album Tracks 1. Gethsemane (Fragment) - Konrad Jarnot/Urs Liska 2. Prelude - Various Performers 3. Transition 1 - Various Performers 4. Transition 2 - Various Performers 5. Transition 3 - Various Performers 6. Interlude - Various Performers 7. Natur - Claudia Barainsky/Urs Liska 8. Das Wappenschild - Claudia Barainsky/Urs Liska 9. Sehnsucht - Claudia Barainsky/Urs Liska 10. Nie Ward Ich, Herrin, Mud' - Claudia Barainsky/Urs Liska 11. Voll Jener Süße - Claudia Barainsky/Urs Liska 12. Wenn Vöglein Klagen - Claudia Barainsky/Urs Liska 13. Mässig - Urs Liska 1. Liecht, Zart - Urs Liska 2. Langsam - Urs Liska 3. Sehr Langsam Viertel - Urs Liska 4. Rasch, Aber Leicht - Urs Liska 5. Etwas Rasch - Urs Liska 6. Sehr Langsam - Urs Liska 7. Litanei - Claudia Barainsky/Urs Liska 8. Entrückung - Claudia Barainsky/Urs Liska 9. Vorgefühle - Various Performers 10. Vergangenes - Various Performers 11. Farben - GÖTZ Schumacher/Andreas Grau 12. Peripetie - Various Performers 13. Das Obligate Rezitativ - GÖTZ Schumacher/Andreas Grau 14. Adagio - GÖTZ Schumacher/Andreas Grau 15. Con Fuoco - GÖTZ Schumacher/Andreas Grau

Album Tracks 1. Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 Andante - Allegro Con Anima 2. Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 Andante Cantabile, Con Alcuna Licenza 3. Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 Valse Allegro Moderato 4. Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 Finale Andante Maestoso - Allegro Vivace 5. Hamlet, Fantasy-Overture for Orchestra in F minor, Op. 67