Stanshawe (Bristol) Band/Walter Hargreaves - Spectrum: The Rise Of The Stanshawe - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

For some years now, Hamburg has been reinventing itself as a city of music. The recently opened Elbphilharmonie - the spectacular concert house on the river Elbe - is one of the factors in this development. As is the KomponistenQuartier (composers' quarter) in the Neustadt district between Rödingsmarkt and St. Pauli, with no fewer than half a dozen small museums dedicated to composers such as Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms and Gustav Mahler. All of these composers feature on this present Hamburg album, as well as a number of composers, male and female, who all wrote noteworthy miniatures for voice and piano. Mariana Popova was responsible for bringing together these 28 compositions and merging them into a dramatic entity - compositions that together result in a very personal, stylistically multi-facetted Hamburg album (including many worldwide first performances). This is a Hamburg album by two women who have chosen Hamburg as their home Chinese-born Lini Gong and Bulgarian-born Mariana Popova both feel a close bond with the musical life and musical history of Hamburg. As the duo explain InchWe consciously bring together musical languages from three centuries and play about with contrasts and with tone colours, in fact with the entire rich spectrum of the art song genre - a genre that we love very much.Inch Album Tracks 1. Tierverse~Der Adler 2. 4 winzige Wunderhornlieder, Op. 9b~Maikäfer-Lied 3. 4 winzige Wunderhornlieder, Op. 9b~Geh, du schwarze Amsel 4. 4 winzige Wunderhornlieder, Op. 9b~Der Sperling 5. 4 winzige Wunderhornlieder, Op. 9b~Der Butzemann 6. Neue Liebe, Op. 19, Nr. 4 7. Auf stillem Meer 8. Frühlingslied, Op. 1, Nr. 2 9. Drei Morgenstern Lieder~Vöglein Schwermut 10. Drei Morgenstern Lieder~So möcht ich sterben... 11. Drei Morgenstern Lieder~Der Vogel 12. Warum sind denn die Rosen so blaß, Op. 1, Nr. 3 13. 4

Album Tracks 1. Fanfare, for Band 2. Promenade, for Piano or Orchestra (Arrangement of InchWalking the DogInch Fro 3. Bone Idyll 4. Alborada Del Gracioso, for Orchestra 5. Fugue in E Flat 6. The Stars and Stripes Forever, March for Band 7. Night Flight to Madrid, for Band 8. When the Boat Comes in 9. Ave Verum Corpus, Motet for Chorus, Strings & Organ, K. 618 10. Cranberry Corner USA, for Band 11. Shepherd's Song 12. Leviathan, Concert March for Band 13. Hungarian Dance 14. Yodelling Brass, for Band

Album Tracks 1. Good Time 2. Brave 3. Dare You to Move 4. Set Fire to the Rain 5. Just the Way You Are 6. Newsies Medley Seize the Day/King of New York/Santa Fe/Carrying the Ba 7. Home for Me 8. Allegheny 9. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik [A Cappella Tribute to Mozart] 10. Frankie Valli Medley Walk Like a Man/Can't Take My Eyes Off You/Sherry 11. Beat It 12. (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher 13. I Stand All Amazed 14. Rhythm of the Night 15. Happy