Tracklista: 1. Vexilla Regis (Hymn For Passion Sunday) 2. Greater Love Hath No Man 3. These Things Shall Be 4. A London Overture 5. The Holy Boy (A Carol Of The Nativity) 6. Epic March
Tracklista: CD 1 1. All Tlowing-Themselves-Up Motherf**Kers (Will Realise The Minute They Die That They Were Suckers) 2. Feed My Rock'n'Roll 3. Dhimmi Is Blue 4. The Black Sheep's Song 5. I Can Remember This Life 6. The Shipwreck Of St. Paul CD 2 1. Come The Revolution 2. It's Too Late To Turn Back Now 3. These Things I Know 4. Psychedelic Odin 5. Blood Sacrifice
Tracklista:1. Kickin' Up Dust2. Mercy3. Best Of Me4. Dangerous5. Love Set Me Up Again6. Better Days7. The Best Thing; Unbreakable8. Wrapped Up In These Arms99. Cgrnr10. Feels A Lot Like Love11. Faith
Tracklista:1. Lost in Heart2. 7 Light Years3. These Boots Are Made for Walking4. Oh Yeah5. Aimless Flight6. Voodoo Child7. Gloria8. Son of Man
Gringolts, one of the most inspirational violinists around today, plays with panache and sensitivity, his partnership with pianist Peter Laul reaching heady heights in the slow movement of the second sonata, the most Janus-faced of all. These are among his most personal and unflamboyant chamber works, and benefit from the scrupulous musicianship that both players bring to them … they have an intimate rapport and innate feeling for the undemonstrative yet deeply emotional content of this glorious music, providing three of the most live-withable accounts of these masterpieces in recent recording history.
Tracklista: CD 1 1. Flames (Pink Panda Remix) 2. On You (Aevion Radio Edit) 3. Neutron Dance 4. These Days (Feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen) [CamelPhat Remix] 5. New Rules (MRK Club Mix) 6. Feel It Still (Coldabank Remix) 7. Keep On Jumping (Re-Tide Disco Remix) 8. Love Is On My Mind (Feat. Amanda Wilson) 9. Atheist 10. It Makes You Forget (Itgehane) 11. In My House 12. God Made Me Phunky (Feat. Ella) [The Loft Mix] 13. Down With Tha 14. Cola (Club Mix) 15. Panic Room (Club Mix) 16. Tell Me You Love Me (Kideko Remix) 17. 17 (6am Remix) 18. Fool for You (Feat. Deniz Reno) [original Mix] 19. In the Night (Feat. Ben Duffy) 20. Handprint (Feat. Armina Ya Heard) [Aeroplane Remix] CD 2 1. Ze Dance 2. We Get High On the Music (Feat. Mr. V) 3. My House (Feat. Stanford) 4. Techno Disco Tool 5. Wings 6. Never Been in Love 7. Lola's Theme Recut (Purple Disco Machine Remix) 8. Home Beyond the Clouds 9. Weekend (David Penn Remix) 10. More Than Friends (Feat. Kelli-Leigh) 11. Still in Love (Feat. Navasha Daya) [Dr Packer Extended Remix] 12. Make Love 13. Love Has Come Around 14. Nobody 15. I Miss You (Feat. Julia Michaels) [Kryder Remix] 16. Wavey (Riton Remix) 17. Bubbletop (Feat. Sagine) [DF's Bubble Wrapped Mix] 18. These Days 19. Eva's Party (Deep Dub Maximum Mix) 20. Opal (Four Tet Remix)
Paavo Järvi conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in these performances of Mahler's Symphonies Nos. 1-9, recorded between 2008 and 2013 at the Rheingau Musik Festival.
Queen Christina of Sweden is one of the most fascinating characters in the history of 17th-century Europe. As the only child of King Gustavus Adolphus, leading champion of the Protestant cause during the Thirty Years' War, she succeeded him on the throne at the age of six, abdicating 22 years later in order to move to Rome where she could openly practice her previously secret Catholicism. While still a reigning monarch, she invited a number of eminent artists and scientists (including René Descartes) to Stockholm, and in 1652 a company of Italian musicians arrived, engaged to supply the court with the very latest of music from Italy. A manuscript presented to Bulstrode Whitelocke, the English ambassador to Sweden at the time, contains some of the music that the queen would have been treated to. The programme on this disc consists of a selection from the Whitelocke manuscript, with Carissimi’s large-scale cantata I Naviganti at its heart. These duets and trios form a kind of refined entertainment music for intimate occasions: emotionally charged, yet playful songs about love and passion intended for an aristocratic audience. The combination of simple yet elegant melodies and colourful, sometimes even bold, harmonies lends these songs a particular sweetness which is here brought out by a close-knit group of some of the finest performers in the field of period performance today, with Emma Kirkby and Peter Harvey representing Whitelocke’s country, and Susanne Rydén and Swedish-based cellist Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann the realm of Queen Christina. They are joined by the Danish harpsichordist Lars Ulrik Mortensen, who also adds variety to the programme with instrumental solos by Frescobaldi.
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Sir Arnold Bax, Chandos has commissioned a new set of his symphonies, conducted by Vernon Handley. The project is one which has been eagerly anticipated by collectors for many years.This special edition box set includes the premiere recording of Rogue’s Comedy Overture, and a bonus CD containing a recorded conversation between the conductor and BBC Radio 3’s Andrew McGregor about Bax’s symphonies.Vernon Handley is universally acknowledged as the leading interpreter of the works of Arnold Bax, consequently making this an unusually important release.This special edition box set is available at a special price. As an added bonus, anyone purchasing the disc will be eligible to enter a competition to win a weekend for two at the Station Hotel, Morar, Scotland (flights from London only), where Bax spent a month or two every winter, setting out in full score works he had sketched in London the previous summer."Sir Arnold Bax wrote his cycle of seven symphonies between 1921 and 1939. In his younger days he had not set out to be a symphonist, and if anyone had then predicted his future career, Bax would doubtless have been scornful of the notion that he could turn to such an old-fashioned genre in the bright new artistic world immediately following the end of World War I. Yet in 1921, when he wrote what he headed ‘Third Piano Sonata’, he quickly realised that he had composed a symphony. He orchestrated it, writing a new slow movement conceived in symphonic terms, and made a big splash with it in December 1922. For the rest of the 1920s audiences thought of it as the Bax symphony, but he was soon working on a second, quickly followed by a third during the winter of 1928–29. The remaining four symphonies followed during the 1930s.Vernon Handley was conducting the works of Sir Arnold Bax during the 1960s when the composer’s work was very much out of favour with the musical establishment. Over the years a Bax symphony conducted by Handley became something special, but apart from an isolated recording of the Fourth with the Guildford Philharmonic, he never recorded any of them. Yet one of Handley’s lifetime ambitions has been to record his view of what he came to regard as a cornerstone of British music in the twentieth century, an ambition achieved with this set.Reviews'It is a tremendous achievement, the crowning glory of Vernon Handleys dedication to British music in general and to this composer in particular.'Sir Arnold Bax Gramophone 'Take Five''Truth to tell, Im still reeling from the impact of this magnificent set; its insights are copious, Chandos layout is ideal (with none of the symphonies split between discs) and the price is tempting too.'Gramophone (Critic's Choice)'Handley, the BBC Philharmonic, executive producer Brian Pidgeon and the Chandos engineers give us sonic glories in spades. These discs transport us to windswept coastlines, the ocean floor, pagan dances and the nobility of love, defeat, death and triumph… This is a wonderful set of compelling haunting music; it deserves to spread joy not just over Christmas but for life.'The Times'The BBC Philharmonics playing is magnificent throughout, while Handley never loses his grip on the musics forceful logic. Works that in some hands, and to some ears, can seem rhapsodic, he reveals as integrally symphonic, for all their big-boned Romantic gestures.'The Telegraph'Every now and then, a series of recordings appears that changes the music world just a little, prompts a re-evaluation, draws us towards repertory we might otherwise have ignored… These probing interpretations venture beyond the surfaces to the musics inner workings. Handley is the ideal guide, the BBC Philharmonic the ideal instrument for the job and you also get Tintagel, a premiere recording of Rogues Comedy Overture and a revealing recorded interview with Andrew McGregor. Superb sound, too.'The Independent'Handleys readings are generally volatile and urgent, and he brings out some of the musics violence and incipient touches of modernism better that his rivals.'BBC Music Magazine (Performance: maximum rating 5*)'Handley and the BBC Philharmonic strain all their musical sinews to bring out every detail of these highly wrought and texturally complex works, and Handleys command of structure and pacing is majestic.'The Guardian'The set has been a labour of love for Vernon Handley - one of the high points of his career. Im hoping that this set, which is the product of 50 years study, will invite people to listen that little bit more often to these wonderful immense works.'Classic FM Magazine 'Disc of the Month''In every way Handley has now produced the definitive Bax series - surely beyond criticism.'Gramophone 'Take Five''The BBC Philharmonic under Vernon Handley recently performed Baxs Symphonies Nos 6 and 8 in Manchester, to great critical acclaim:…a rare occasion of exploration and discovery. Perhaps this anniversary will allow Baxs music to emerge from the shadow of Vaughan Williams. On this evidence, Handley and BBCPO are incomparably equipped to make that happen.'The Guardian'Vernon Handley is the ideal conductor for Bax: he understands the music like no other, and it breathes perfectly in his hands.'Fanfare on CHAN 9715 (Bax)'…this splended Fingerhut and Handley performance brings a reassessment and the works strengths, particularly its appealing slow movement, are revealed.'BBC Music Magazine on CHAN 9715 (Bax)''These are interpretations by a conductor who has lived with this music and who is fully at home in the composer's musical world. Beautifully played and recorded, this is the sort of thing that Chandos does incomparably.' 'Truth to tell, I'm still reeling from the impact of this magnificent set; its insights are copious, Chandos' layout is ideal (with none of the symphonies split between discs) and the price is tempting too.''Gramophone Critic's Choice''The BBC Philharmonic's playing is magnificent throughout, while Handley never loses his grip on the music's forceful logic. Works that in some hands, and to some ears, can seem rhapsodic, he reveals as integrally symphonic, for all their big-boned Romantic gestures.''The Telegraph'The set has been a labour of love for Vernon Handley - one of the high points of his career. 'I'm hoping that this set, which is the product of 50 years' study, will invite people to listen that little bit more often to these wonderful immense works'.''Classic FM Magazine 'Disc of the Month'
Tracklista:1. Back to Land2. Ruins3. Ghouls4. These Shadows5. In the Roses6. Other Stars7. Servants8. Everybody Knows