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Ben somewhen : choral and chamber music / Howard Skempton.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 04463
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Skempton, Howard, 1947-
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Instrumental ensembles.
- Quintets (Clarinet, violins (2), viola, cello).
- Choruses (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied.
- Ballets--Excerpts.
- Ballets.
- Double bass with instrumental ensemble.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Excerpts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- London : NMC Recordings, [2007]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- stereo
- digital recording
- Contents:
- Chamber concerto (5:30)
- Clarinet quintet (8:43)
- The voice of the spirits (7:30)
- The bridge of fire (7:04)
- Delicate. Suite (18:12)
- Roundels of the year (7:15)
- Rise up, my love (8:35)
- Ben somewhen (12:16).
- Participant:
- John Tattersdill, double bass (8th work) ; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (1st-2nd, 5th, 8th works) ; Exaudi (3rd-4th, 6th-7th works) ; James Weeks, conductor.
- Notes:
- The 1st work for 15 instruments; the 2nd work for clarinet, 2 violins, viola, and violoncello; the 3rd, 4th, 6th, and 7th works for choir (SATB); the 5th work a suite extracted from dance music for Delicate, for 2 violoncellos and percussion; the 8th work for double bass with flute, clarinet, harp, violin, viola, and 2 violoncellos.
- Title from container.
- Texts by Percy Bysshe Shelley (3rd work), James Elroy Flecker (4th work), John Drinkwater (6th work), and from the Song of Solomon (7th work).
- Recorded Jan. 16-17, 2007 at St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London (3rd-4th, 6th-7th works) and Apr. 14-15, 2007 at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham (remaining works).
- Compact disc.
- Includes texts with program notes by Howard Skempton and James Weeks on insert.
- Contains:
- Skempton, Howard, 1947- Chamber concerto.
- Skempton, Howard, 1947- Quintet, clarinet, violins, viola, cello.
- Skempton, Howard, 1947- Voice of the spirits.
- Skempton, Howard, 1947- Bridge of fire.
- Skempton, Howard, 1947- Delicate. Suite.
- Skempton, Howard, 1947- Roundels of the year.
- Skempton, Howard, 1947- Rise up, my love.
- Skempton, Howard, 1947- Ben somewhen.
- OCLC:
- 181163375
- Publisher Number:
- 5023363013529
- NMC D135 NMC Recordings
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