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Title: The NMC Songbook
Condition: New
Format: CD
EAN: 5023363015028
Edition: Box Set
Genre: Classical
Style: Compilation
Release Date: 06/04/2009
Description: This 4 CD box set was commissioned in 2009 for the 20th anniversary of NMC Recordings. Around 100 of Britain's best composers each wrote a piece, themed on Britain, for either solo voice or duet with a range of accompanying instruments. Each piece has been set to a text of the composers choice ranging from a well known poem to extracts from a national trust brochure. This CD box set also comes with a 60 page booklet describing all of the works.
No Of Discs: 4
Artist: David Sawer
Record Label: NMC Recordings
Composer: David Matthews, Stuart MacRae, Morgan Hayes, Dai Fujikura, David Blake, Donnacha Dennehy, Huw Watkins, Gordon Crosse, Joe Cutler, Edward Rushton, Alison Bauld, Diana Burrell, Lyell Cresswell, Robert Keeley, Geoffrey Poole, Bayan Northcott, Anthony Gilbert, Alexander Goehr, Simon Bainbridge, Colin Matthews, Tarik O'Regan, Richard Baker, John McCabe, Richard Causton, Claudia Molitor, Emily Hall, Anna Meredith, Peter Maxwell Davies, David Bedford, Joe Duddell, Tansy Davies, Emily Howard, David Horne, Jeremy Dale Roberts, Harrison Birtwistle, Robin Holloway, Giles Swayne, Anthony Powers, Gerald Barry, Anthony Payne, John White, Jonathan Lloyd, Thomas Morley, Luke Bedford, Jonathan Cole, Julian Philips, Helen Grime, Phillip Neil Martin, Rachel Leach, Rupert Bawden, Julian Grant, Bláar Kindsdottir, Lloyd Moore, Daniel Basford, Christopher Mayo, Luke Stoneham, Joseph Phibbs, Julia Simpson, Jordan Hunt, Ben Foskett, Bryn Harrison, Jonathan Harvey, Robert Saxton, Roxanna Panufnik, Martin Butler, Roderick Williams, Philip Cashian, Judith Weir, Brian Elias, Sadie Harrison, Michael Finnissy, Stephen Montague, Edwin Roxburgh, Julian Anderson, David Sawer, Howard Skempton, John Woolrich, Hugh Wood, Peter Wiegold, Errollyn Wallen, Thea Musgrave, James MacMillan, Gary Carpenter, Michael Berkeley, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Jonathan Powell, Gavin Bryars, Roger Marsh, James Dillon, Nicholas Sackman, Simon Holt, John Casken, Judith Bingham, Chris Dench, Nicola LeFanu, Christopher Fox, Philip Grange
MPN: NMCD150
Release Year: 2009
Tracks:

Disc 1
1: The Source
2: Upon St George's Hill
3: Shining Plain
4: Interlude
5: Tss-k-haa
6: Galliard: Version 1
7: Those Fenny Bells
8: The Sun's Great Eye
9: The Bourne
10: Maiden in the Moor
11: Houses and Gardens in the Heart of England
12: Galliard: Version 2
13: This Silence Before Light
14: Blist's Hill
15: Fin Like a Flower
16: Cease Sorrows Now
17: Titania's Song
18: Swift's Epitaph
19: Nobody Comes
20: A Cat
21: Galliard: Version 3
22: Outside Fort Tregantle
23: Blaze of Noon
24: Bands
25: Mouth of the Dumb
26: Stanzas 1814
27: Galliard: Version 4
28: Easter

Disc 2
1: Dirge
2: A Curious Thirsty Fly
3: Out of Town
4: English Encouragement of Art
5: A Swallow
6: Galliard: Version 5
7: The Beach in Winter: Scratby (For Tess)
8: Lucretius
9: Upon the Cloudy Night
10: Easter Zunday
11: Labyrinth to Light
12: With My Whip
13: Raju Raghuvanshi Is a Ghost
14: A Winter's Morning
15: Galliard: Version 6
16: Darkness Visible
17: A Simple Neo-Georgian Summer
18: A Cause for Wonder
19: Wild Clematis in Winter
20: Poet and Star
21: Galliard: Version 7
22: Vocalise: Loch Lurgainn in the Sunshine
23: A Coat
24: Know Thy Kings and Queens
25: Because I Breathe Not Love to Everyone
26: Destroying Beauty
27: First Known When Lost
28: Galliard: Version 8
29: Haiku

Disc 3
1: Meet Me in the Green Glen
2: Music, Thou Queen of Souls
3: Plover's Peak
4: Spoken to a Bronze Head
5: The Greenwoods' Lament
6: Love Song (For Yoga)
7: Night & Morning
8: Hour-glass
9: Galliard: Version 9
10: Proud Maisie
11: A Recipe for Whisky
12: Echo: Hommage À Francis Poulenc
13: Lullaby
14: Lake Side
15: English Lullaby
16: A Poison Tree
17: She Walks in Beauty Like the Night
18: Galliard: Version 10
19: The True Standard Advanced
20: That Mighty Heart
21: The Fitful Alternations of the Rain
22: Tree
23: An Hypallage
24: A Dangerous Crossing
25: The Roman Centurion's Song
26: 25
27: Galliard: Version 11
28: Bellamy

Disc 4
1: Ah! Sun-flower
2: Blackbirds and Thrushes
3: The Lif of This World
4: The Importance of Being Earnest
5: London
6: Out in the Dark
7: Galliard: Version 12
8: Old Man and Sea
9: Ulysses' Admonition
10: My Favourite Sound
11: Stendhal's Observation
12: Silence On Ullswater
13: Heynonnynonny Smallprint
14: The Moon's Funeral
15: Galliard: Version 13
16: Bees A-zwarmen
17: Sonnet XVIII
18: Go, Lovely Rose
19: An Aesthetic of Lines
20: I Look Into My Glass
21: Ghost Train
22: Dictionary of London
23: Driving
24: Galliard: Complete Version
25: An Oblique

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