Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and the keyboard concerto-a lifelong relationship, challenging and exhaust-ing, altogether fruitful, brilliant, and even spectacular into the bargain. As a 19-year-old (under the eyes of his father, so to speak) he wrote in Leipzig his first keyboard concerto; at the age of 74 in Hamburg he finished, in the year of his death, his last example of the genre. In-between lies a treasury of fifty keyboard concertos, colossal and fathomless. 881488230086 PROL23008.2 43500352 .00 20.99 .19 PROFIL - G HAENSSLER COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 06/02/2023 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/54/4210454-3206522.jpg 17 1 N
L ESTRANGE / GOWER / LONDON VOICES WINTER LIGHT Following her first album on Signum Classics, Winter Light is an album of works (complete with some world premiere recordings and new arrangements) celebrating the season of Winter, as well as Christmas and Advent by composer Joanna Forbes L'Estrange. The common themes linking all 18 tracks are of light triumphing over darkness, good overcoming evil and, ultimately, love conquering all. The first half of the album tells the Christmas story, and the second takes on a different tone; veering towards jazz and folk styles. Jo's wish is to introduce choirs to some new Winter and Christmas-themed pieces which they might like to add to their own repertoire. 635212087329 SGUK873.2 44460433 .00 20.99 .23 SIGNUM CLASSICS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 08/09/2024 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/02/4353102-3201936.jpg 32 1 N
AUDELAY / CHESTERTON / BEVAN FAMILY CONSORT CHRISTMAS WITH THE BEVAN FAMILY CONSORT Following their first successful album on Signum Records, the Bevan Family Consort present a collection of Christmas Carols and compositions for Advent. The collection includes familiar works such as Darke's setting of 'In the Bleak Midwinter', which is presented here in a new arrangement by Francis Bevan and was as works newly transcribed for this album such as Palestrina's 'Missa sine nominee a5' and Weelkes 'Gloria in excelsis Deo'. 'Lute-book lullaby' also features, composed by original Bevan Family Choir founder David Bevan. ? THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2023 [A] lovingly curated selection of works for voices. All received performances of exquisite subtlety and clarity" - The Times
