5023363015028

The Nmc Songbook [4CD Ltd Boxs

Various Artists

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Format: 4CD

Cat No: NMCD150

Release Date:  04 April 2009

Label:  NMC Recordings

Packaging Type:  Clamshell

No of Units:  4

Barcode:  5023363015028

Genres:  Classical  Contemporary  

  • Description

    To mark its 20th Anniversary in 2009, NMC Recordings commissioned The NMC Songbook. Nearly 100 composers, ranging from the country's most highly regarded figures to the younger generation of emerging talents, each wrote a song on the theme of 'Britain', for single voice or duet and a range of accompanying instruments.

    The songs are set to text chosen by the composers and cover a vast array of subjects, from lyrics by Blake and Byron and schoolbook rhymes listing the Kings and Queens of England, to extracts from a National Trust brochure, chants from the Leyton Orient terraces, a recipe for whisky, and road rage at the shopping centre Lakeside. Songs are interspersed with instrumental interludes from versions of a Galliard by Thomas Morley, arranged for the Songbook by Colin Matthews.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. The Source
      • 2. Upon St George's Hill
      • 3. Shining Plain
      • 4. Interlude
      • 5. Tss-k-haa - Roderick Williams
      • 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 - Omar Ebrahim
      • 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 - Susan Bickley
      • 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 - Lore Lixenberg
      • 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 - Errollyn Wallen
      • 23. An Hypallage
      • 24. A Dangerous Crossing
      • 25. The Roman Centurion's Song
      • 26. 25 - Luke Stoneham
      • 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 - Gerald Barry
      • 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 - David Stout
      • 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