Various Artists - Serenity / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Guitarist Anne Haasch sets the mood for a dialogue across centuries in her new GENUIN with works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Manuel María Ponce. She combines the rarely recorded 24 Preludes by the Mexican composer with the Lute Suite No. 2 by the Leipzig Thomaskantor, whom he revered. However, the juxtaposition of these works is a dialogue not only across time but across continents as well. Like Bach, Ponce has mastered the art of creating dense, eternal spheres of tension, but within ostensibly inconspicuous forms and simple, poetic lines. Anne Haasch captures this immensely expressive music's architecture, rhetoric, and content with her clear and vibrant playing.

SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce the first commercial of Composers at the Savile Club, pianist Alexander Karpeyev's vivid and varied recital celebrating the 150th anniversary of the venerable London club. Devised by Karpeyev and Jeremy Barlow (who will celebrate his 60th year as a Savile member in 2020 and also provides informative booklet notes) the recital includes music for solo piano by 11 leading Savile members to chart the development of British music from late romanticism to modernism - and back again. Sam Pierce and Bradley Jones perform the two celebratory trumpet fanfares, by former Savilian Malcolm Arnold - his Savile Centenary Fanfare - and current Savile member, Julian Anderson - Fanfare SC-GH composed for the sesquicentennial anniversary - that frame Karpeyev's recital. Among British luminaries featured are the composer-knights Edward Elgar (the lyrically atmospheric In Smyrna), William Walton (Façade's delightful, dancing 'Popular Song'), Malcolm Arnold (Variations on a Ukrainian Folk Song his most substantial work for solo piano) and Hubert Parry (the delicately antique Hands Across the Centuries Prelude). Other notable names include Roger Quilter, Herbert Howells, Arthur Benjamin, William Alwyn and Henry Balfour Gardiner. Two Irish dances by Dubliner Charles Villiers Stanford, the Romanian-born Francis Chagrin's Suite Roumaine and three Musical Portraits by American Virgil Thomson complete a fascinating portrait of the Savile Club's rich musical heritage. Located in London's Mayfair, the Savile Club was founded in 1868, it's motto - InchSodalitas ConviviumInch - translating as Inchgood fellowship and convivialityInch. The Savile's informality has attracted a host of distinguished names from the arts and sciences, including composers not featured on this recording Sir Arthur Bliss, William Lloyd Webber and Bernard Hermann and 17 Nobel Prize wi

Various Artists - Ans Electronic Music [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/20/2025