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William Vann, Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea - A Christmas Fantasia (2024) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Oct. 10, 2024

A Christmas Fantasia is a collection of carols and fantasias written (mainly) by Ralph Vaughan Williams and his friends and former students. The exception is a new carol composed by the album's director, William Vann, setting a poem by Ivor Gurney.

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Ana Beard Fernández, Roderick Williams, The Endellion Cellists, William Vann - Habanera (2025) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at March 17, 2025

Multi-part music for the same instrument, dating back to Elizabethan consorts of viols, remains outside the typical orchestral repertoire nowadays, but as ever, SOMM remains true to it's stellar reputation for presenting rare and singular releases. Habanera, Music for Eight Cellos and Voice is a joyous recording that grew out of a collaboration between baritone Roderick Williams and cellist Joely Koos, joint Artistic Directors at the 2023 Endellion Summer Music Festival.

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Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence, Roderick Williams & William Vann - Ralph Vaughan Williams: Folk Songs, Vol. 3 (2021) Music

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 14, 2021

Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence, Roderick Williams & William Vann - Ralph Vaughan Williams: Folk Songs, Vol. 3 (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 205 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 140 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:00:41
Classical | Label: Albion Records

Folk Songs from the Eastern Counties is is the third in a series of four albums recording all 81 of the folk songs in English that Ralph Vaughan Williams arranged for voice and piano or violin. 57 of the 81 songs have not previously been recorded in these arrangements.

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Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, Joshua Ryan, William Vann - The Reeds by Severn Side (2022) [24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at April 12, 2022

Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, Joshua Ryan, William Vann - The Reeds by Severn Side (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 79:45 minutes | 1,31 GB
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: SOMM Recordings, Official Digital Download

SOMM Recordings announces the release of The Reeds by Severn Side, a ravishing collection of choral works by Edward Elgar, sung by the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, led by director William Vann, accompanied by organist Joshua Ryan.

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William Bennett, I Musici - Scarlatti: 6 Sinfonie di Concerto Grosso, 3 Concerti (1991) Music

Posted by tirexiss at July 9, 2024

I Musici here performs the concerti grossi of Alessandro Scarlatti and his flute concerti. Scarlatti tended to be rather conservative in his compositions by adhering strictly to Corelli's concerto grosso model. He is not Vivaldi, Locatelli, or Torelli, but his pieces have somewhat of a pastoral warmth to them.

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Ana Beard Fernández, Roderick Williams, The Endellion Cellists, William Vann - Habanera (2025) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at March 17, 2025

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Théotime Langlois de Swarte & William Christie - Générations - Senaillé & Leclair (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at July 13, 2021

Théotime Langlois de Swarte & William Christie - Générations - Senaillé & Leclair: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 68:23 minutes | 2,16 GB
Classical | Label: harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

Poised at the convergence of 18th-century French and Italian schools, Leclair and Senaillé were the French Paganinis of their day. Technically challenging yet full of poetry, rhythmically varied and always dance-like, their sonatas find two fervent advocates in Théotime Langlois de Swarte and William Christie. Transcending generational differences, the “venerated elder statesman of early music” (Opera News) and the youthful violin prodigy join forces to help us rediscover these still unjustly neglected pages.

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Basil Vendryes, Igor Pikayzen & William David - Paul Juon: Chamber Music for Viola (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at May 31, 2022

Basil Vendryes, Igor Pikayzen & William David - Paul Juon: Chamber Music for Viola (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 67:48 minutes | 1,01 GB
Classical | Label: Toccata Classics, Official Digital Download

Paul Juon was born in Moscow, of Swiss parents, in 1872, studying there with Arensky and Taneyev; Rachmaninov, a fellow student at the Moscow Conservatoire, dubbed him ‘the Russian Brahms’. Woldemar Bargiel, Clara Schumann’s half-brother, was his main teacher at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin before Juon himself became a member of the staff. There are indeed echoes of Brahms in Juon’s early music but there is also a fondness for Russian folksong and a mastery of counterpoint, which all feed into his urgent, late-Romantic lyricism.

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William Youn, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Valentin Uryupin - Boulanger, Fauré, Hahn (2024) [Digital Download 24/48] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 25, 2024

William Youn, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Valentin Uryupin - Boulanger, Fauré, Hahn (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 86:54 minutes | 824 MB
Classical | Label: Sony Classical, Official Digital Download

William Youn's first orchestral album for Sony Classical in cooperation with Deutschlandradio Berlin is dedicated entirely to the exuberant flair of fin-de-siècle Paris with rare repertoire by Reynaldo Hahn, Nadia Boulanger and Gabriel Fauré - a musical excursion into the salons of the Belle Époque full of dazzling rediscoveries.

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William Kanengiser & Alexander String Quartet - British Invasion (2023) Music

Posted by delpotro at April 4, 2023

William Kanengiser & Alexander String Quartet - British Invasion (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 306 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 156 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:07:10
Classical | Label: Foghorn Records

The Alexander String Quartet and guitarist William Kanengiser form a dynamic collaboration that explores the music of Sting, Led Zeppelin, John Dowland and The Beatles by way of contemporary composers Ian Krouse, Dušan Bogdanović and Leo Brouwer.

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