Classical Genres
The Complete String Quartets Vol. 3
Mistry String Quartet
DKP(CD) 9082
Elizabeth Maconchy (b. 1907)
JAGDISH MISTRY and CHARLES SEWART violins
CAROLINE HENBEST viola
SUSAN MONKS cello
1-4. String Quartet No. 9 (1968) 15:29
5. String Quartet No. 10 (1972) 12:55
6. String Quartet No. 11 (1976) 14:13
7-10. String Quartet No. 12 (1979) 13:06
11-13. String Quartet No. 13 (Quartetto Corto) (1984) 7:39
Total: 64:02
Peter Maxwell Davies IV – The Fires of London
UKCD2038
SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES conductor
1. AVE MARIS STELLA* unconducted chamber performance 29:27
2-4. IMAGE, REFLECTION, SHADOW** 36:42
Unconducted chamber performance – Gregory Knowles, cimbalom
5. RUNES FROM A HOLY ISLAND** 11:05
Total: 77:41
Side note
The choice of the plainchant Ave Maris Stella (Hail, Star of the Sea) as the basis of this work reflects the circumstances of its composition in Maxwell Davies’s then newly restored croft overlooking the Atlantic.
Edvard Grieg – Lyric Pieces Vol. 3
UKCD2035
PETER KATIN piano
1-6. Book VIII, Op. 65 23:06
7-12. Book IX, Op. 68 18:36
13-19. Book X, Op. 71 22:13
Total: 63:59
Side note
Grieg was able to conjure up a mood or atmosphere in a mere bar or so of music.
Olivier Messiaen – Poèmes pour Mi
UKCD 2085
JANE MANNING soprano
DAVID MASON piano
1-4. Book 1 13:26
5-6. Book 2 14:31
10-15. Chants de Terre et de Ciel 27 :23
Total duration: 56 :33
Splendours of European Organ Music
Jeremy Filsell and Paul Trepte at the Organ of Ely Cathedral
IMCD 704
1. Edward Elgar – Imperial March 5.24
2. Frank Bridge – Adagio in E 5.55
3-4. Marcel Dupré – Choral and Fugue in F sharp minor Op. 57 6.22
5. Marcel Dupré – Evocation III Allegro deciso 6.58
6-7. Jean Sibelius – Two Pieces for the organ Op. 111 12.37
8. Alexander Glazunov – Fantaisie Op. 110 15.56
9-11. Neils W. Gade – Three Pieces Op. 22 11.12
Total Duration: 65.42
Sacred and Profane
Clare College Chapel Choir
IMCD 703
Director: Timothy Brown
Benjamin Britten – Sacred and Profane
- St. Godric’s Hymn 1.30
- I mon waxe wod 0.38
- Lenten is come 2.15
- The long night 1.08
- Yif ic of luve can 2.06
- Carol 1.36
- Ye that passen by 2.01
- A death 3.07
- Herbert Howells – Inheritance 5.07
- Arnold Bax – What is it like 2.20
- Gerald Finzi – White-flowering days 3.38
- Vaughan Williams – Silence and Music 4.25
- Lennox Berkeley – Spring at this hour 2.41
- Arthur Bliss – Aubade 5.13
Samuel Barber – Reincarnations - Mary Hines 1.41
- Anthony O Daly 3.11
- The Coolin 3.26
Samuel Barber – Two Choruses from Anthony & Cleopatra - On the death of Anthony 3.11
- On the death of Cleopatra 3.07
- Samuel Barber – The Monk & his cat 2.13
Benjamin Britten – A.M.D.G. - Prayer I 1.41
- Rosa Mystica 3.18
- God’s Grandeur 2.44
- Prayer II 3.53
- O Deus, ego am te 1.48
- The Soldier 2.03
- Heaven-Haven 1.24
Total Duration: 74.01
