Maw, Nicholas

American Games - 20th Century Classics for Winds: Schoenberg, Cushing, Maw et al.

1 CD / Altissimo / 2012-02-28

Works: Nicholas Maw: American Games, for band; Charles Cushing: Angel Camp, for band; Florent Schmitt: Dionysiaques for band, Op. 62; Nikos Skalkottas: Greek Dances; Arnold Schoenberg: Theme and Variations ...
Performers: United States Marine Band, The
Conductors: Foley, Timothy
Ensemble: United States Marine Band

From the earliest days of our nation, the United States Marine Band's primary mission has been to provide the best music in the world to...continue...
Recording information: Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax, (06/23/1997-06/27/1997)....continue...

Maw: String Quartet No. 3; Britten: String Quartet No. 3; Three Divertimenti / Coull Quartet

1 CD / SOMM / 2011-10-11

Works: Nicholas Maw: Quartet for Strings no 3; Benjamin Britten: Quartet for Strings no 3, Op. 94; Divertimenti (3), for string quartet
Conductors:
Ensemble: Coull Quartet

Change Is Gonna Come

1 Super Audio CD / Alba / 2011-07-12

Works: Joachim Bernhard Hagen: Variations on a Theme of Locatelli in G; Johann Sebastian Bach: BWV 1004; Fernando Sor: Fantasia for Guitar in C minor, Op. 7; Nicholas Maw: Music of Memory, for solo guitar; ...
Performers: Petri Kumela

Petri Kumela, one of Finland's most versatile and sought-after classical guitarists, is equally at home with period instruments as in working with contemporary composers. He...continue...
Recording information: St Peter Church, Evercreek, Somerset, England (03/24/2010)....continue...

British Composers: A Celebration / EMI

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-05-03

Works: Edward Elgar: Wand of Youth Suite no 1, Op. 1a no 4; Symphony no 1 in A flat, Op. 55; Ave Maria, Op. 2 no 2; Quartet for Strings in E minor, Op. 83; Ave verum corpus, Op. 2 no 1; Falstaff; Dream Chil...
Performers: Allen, Thomas; Andrew Davis [Conductor/Organ]; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Bowen, John; Bramma, Harry; Brown, Wilfred; Dilkes, Neville; Donohoe, Pete...
Conductors: Collingwood, Lawrance; Willcocks, David; Boult, Adrian; Walton, William; Harding, Daniel; Robinson, Christopher; Wordsworth, Barry; Finzi, Christopher; Bliss, Sir Arthur; Goodall, Reginald; Davies, M...
Ensemble: ; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; Britten String Quartet; London Music Group; The Band of the Royal Military School of Music Kne

Taking a panoramic view of British music between the ends of the 19th and 20th centuries, this fascinating collection features some 30 composers. From the...continue...

Maw: Sophie's Choice / Rattle/Royal Opera, Kirchschlager, Gietz, Gilfry [2 DVD]

2 DVD Video / BBC Opus Arte / 2010-03-30

Works: John Nicholas Maw: Sophie's Choice
Performers: Duesing, Dale; Gietz, Gordon; Gilfry, Rodney; Kirchschlager, Angelika
Conductors: Rattle, Simon
Ensemble: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus

In 2002, Nicholas Maw's opera Sophie's Choice, based on the novel by William Styron, was given its premiere at the Royal Opera House. The subject...continue...
Run Time: 223 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, DTS 5.0 Surround
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spani...continue...

British Music / Sir Simon Rattle

11 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-10-20

Works: Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations; Grania and Diarmid, Op. 42; Falstaff, symphonic study for orchestra in C minor, Op. 68; Concerto for Violin in B minor, Op. 61; The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38; Pomp a...
Performers: Allen, Thomas; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Bream, Julian [Guitar]; Elms, Roderick; Hampson, Thomas; Harrell, Lynn; Heinen, Ulrich; Kennedy, Nigel [Violin]; Mitchinson, John; Shirley-Qui...
Conductors: Rattle, Simon, Sir; Halsey, Simon;
Ensemble: Berliner Philharmoniker; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Members of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchest

This new 11CD box set in the Simon Rattle Edition contains many favorites from the English repertory including Elgar's Engma Variations and Violin Concerto, Walton's...continue...

Dreamland / Polyphony, Holst Singers, Trinity College Choir Cambridge

1 CD / Hyperion / 2009-10-13

Works: Gabriel Jackson: To Morning; John Tavener: As one who has slept, for chorus; Morten Lauridsen: Ave dulcissima Maria, for chorus; Randall Thompson: Alleluia; Pierre Villette: O sacrum convivium; Veljo...
Performers: Beckett, Kevin; Elliott, Rachel; Healey, Philippa; Henderson, Frances; Macleod-Jones, Iain; Maxwell, Léonie; Sheldrake, Christopher

Dreamland is a new and intriguing specially-priced sampler that features a selection of pieces from Hyperion's extensive and varied choral music catalog. This disc seeks...continue...

British Flute Music / Jeffrey Khaner, Charles Abramovic

1 CD / Avie Records / 2009-04-01

Works: York Bowen: Sonata for flute & piano, Op. 120; Lennox Berkeley: Sonatina for recorder (or flute) & piano, Op. 13; Malcolm Arnold: Sonata for flute & piano, Op. 121; Nicholas Maw: Flute Sonatina; Iain...
Performers: Abramovic, Charles; Khaner, Jeffrey

Skempton: Pigs could fly, Alice is one; Britten, Tavener, Bliss, Rutter, etc / Corp, Wells, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-11-25

Works: Howard Skempton: Pigs could fly, for chorus; Alice is one, for chorus; Benjamin Britten: Corpus Christi Carol, for voice or unison chorus & organ; May, song for unison chorus & piano; Ronald Corp: Gi...
Performers: Wells, Alexander

"Here's an essential recording for fans of music for treble choir--and for listeners who may never have experienced the highest standard of children's choir singing...continue...

20th-Century Masterpieces - 100 Years of Classical Music

16 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-11-24

Works: Sergey Rachmaninov: Concerto for Piano no 2 in C minor, Op. 18; Claude Debussy: La mer; Frederick Delius: Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody; Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde; Arnold Schoenberg: Pi...
Performers: Andsnes, Leif Ove; Argerich, Martha [Piano]; Bashmet, Yuri [Conductor/Viola]; Chang, Sarah; Devos, Louis; du Pré, Jacqueline; Harrell, Lynn; Isserlis, Steven; Kilanowisz, Zofia; Kremer, Gidon;...
Conductors: Pappano, Antonio; Giulini, Carlo Maria; Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Klemperer, Otto; Rattle, Simon, Sir; Dutoit, Charles; Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Haitink, Bernard; Berglund, Paavo; Frühbeck de Burgos...
Ensemble: ; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; City of London Sinfonia; Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra; French National Orchestra; Helsinki Philharmo...

The works in this set of 16 CDs have been arranged in strict chronological order of composition, the first disc beginning with a work from...continue...

Laureate Series, Guitar - Marcin Dylla

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-08-26

Works: Joaquín Rodrigo: Junto al Generalife; Alexandre Tansman: Variations on a theme of Scriabin for Guitar; Nicholas Maw: Music of Memory, for solo guitar; Manuel Ponce: Sonata Romántica for gui...
Performers: Dylla, Marcin

Marcin Dylla, First Prize Winner in the 2007 Guitar Foundation of America Competition, is considered one of the most outstanding classical guitar players of the...continue...

Maw: Sinfonia; Gardner, Addison, Dodgson / Del Mar, English Chamber Orchestra, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

1 CD / Lyrita / 2008-08-12

Works: Nicholas Maw: Sinfonia for orchestra; John Addison: Divertimento for brass quartet, Op. 9; John Linton Gardner: Theme and Variations, for brass quartet, Op. 7; Stephen Dodgson: Sonata for brass quint...
Conductors: del Mar, Norman

Hoddinott, Banks: Horn Concerto; Searle; Maw / Tuckwell, Harper, et al

1 CD / Lyrita / 2008-07-08

Works: Alun Hoddinott: Concerto for Horn, Op. 65; Humphrey Searle: Aubade, for horn & strings, Op. 28; Don Banks: Concerto for Horn; Nicholas Maw: Sonata for 2 horns & strings
Performers: Civil, Alan; Harper, Ian; Tuckwell, Barry [French Horn]
Conductors: Davis, Andrew; del Mar, Norman

Maw: Scenes and Arias; Milner: Roman Spring, etc

1 CD / Lyrita / 2007-09-04

Works: Nicholas Maw: Scenes and Arias, for 3 female voices & orchestra; Anthony Milner: Salutatio Angelica, cantata for voice, choir & orchestra, Op. 1; Roman Spring, cantata for 2 voices, choir & orchestra
Performers: Howells, Anne; Manning, Jane; Palmer, Felicity; Tear, Robert
Conductors: del Mar, Norman; Atherton, David
Ensemble: ; London Sinfonietta; London Sinfonietta Chorus

Legendary performances on CD for the first time! Born in 1935, Nicholas Maw created a personal synthesis of serial and tonal traditions. Scenes and Arias...continue...

One Foot in Eden Still, I Stand / Shepherd, et al

1 CD / Hyperion / 2007-02-13

Works: Nicholas Maw: 3 Hymns, for choir & organ; 5 Epigrams, for choir; The angel Gabriel, for voice & choir; Our Lady's song, for choir; Balulalow, for choir; Corpus Christi Carol, for 2 voices, choir & pi...
Performers: Bradshaw, Emily; Carpenter, Josie; Coldstream, Alison; Filsell, Jeremy [Keyboard]; Foster-Carter, Tom; Gallagher, Lois; Jones, Simon; Thomas, Paul
Conductors: Shepherd, Mark
Ensemble: Schola Cantorum Oxford

"The Angel Gabriel has been set countless times, but Maw's is a truly original version that retains the essence of the melody while adding a...continue...

Ancora - Maw: Life Studies; Bennett / Marriner, Willcocks

1 CD / NMC Classics / 2006-05-04

Works: Nicholas Maw: Life Studies; Richard Rodney Bennett: Spells
Performers: Manning, Jane
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville; Willcocks, David, Sir
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Bach Choir; Philharmonia Orchestra

NMC is pleased to announce another release in its successful Ancora series of re-issues. The composers and performers on this release make it an important...continue...

Songs for Tenor & Guitar / Langridge, Marchionda

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2005-05-24

Works: John Dowland: Firste Booke of Songes; Third and Last Booke of Songes; Benjamin Britten: Nocturnal after John Dowland, for guitar, Op. 70; Songs from the Chinese, song cycle for high voice & guitar, O...
Performers: Langridge, Philip; Marchionda, Stephen

Following hot on the heels of his extraordinary performance as Aschenbach in Chandos' 'Death in Venice', Philip Langridge brings his rare musical and dramatic abilities...continue...

Themes & Variations / Jac Van Steen, BBC Symphony Orchestra

1 CD / NMC Classics / 2001-06-03

Works: Imogen Holst: Variations on an Elizabethan Theme; Arthur Oldham: Variations on an Elizabethan Theme; Michael Tippett: Variations on an Elizabethan Theme; Braint (Severn Bridge Variations; Lennox Berk...
Conductors: Steen, Jac van

"...Performances are superb. Sound in the string-orchestra 'Variations on an Elizabethan Theme' is good but a little dry; the two sets for full orchestra are...continue...

Maw: Violin Concerto / Joshua Bell, Roger Norrington, et al

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2000-04-18

Works: Nicholas Maw: Concerto for Violin
Performers: Bell, Joshua
Conductors: Norrington, Roger
Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

"...[It] is gratifying to see Sony investing in a big, serious, challenging contemporary work, especially one as ravishing as this Violin Concerto by British composer...continue...

Maw, Bennett / Auréole Trio

1 CD / Koch International / 1998-06-16

Works: Nicholas Maw: Night Thoughts, for solo flute; Roman Canticle, for mezzo-soprano, flute, viola & harp; Quartet for flute & string trio; Richard Rodney Bennett: After Syrinx for oboe & piano; Six tunes...
Performers: Gilbert, Laura; Hammann, Mary; Nessinger, Mary; Shames, Stacey; Whitfield, John [Bass]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Aureole Trio

"A generously filled CD divided, albeit unequally, between Nicholas Maw and Richard Rodney Bennett...All the performances are highly accomplished and Laura Gilbert in the solo...continue...

Maw: Sonata Notturna, Life Studies / Boughton, Wallfisch

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Nicholas Maw: Sonata notturna, for solo cello & string orchestra; Life Studies, for 15 strings
Performers: Wallfisch, Raphael [Cello]
Conductors: Boughton, William
Ensemble: English String Orchestra

"All credit to Raphael Wallfisch for his eloquent playing - he must surely have enjoyed Maw's generously lyrical writing. But it's Life Studies that has...continue...

English Anthems / Cleobury, Choir of King's College

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 1993-06-08

Works: Charles Wood: Hail, gladdening light; Edgar Leslie Bainton: And I Saw a New Heaven, anthem for chorus & organ; John Ireland: Greater love hath no man; William H. Harris: Faire Is the Heaven, for chor...
Performers: Datnow, Robert; Hughes, Christopher; King's College Choir, Cambridge; Pearce, Michael; Rangarajan, Gautam; Rice, Robert W.; Robinson, Paul [Bass-Baritone Vocal]; Rose, Thomas; Tyson, Robin
Conductors: Cleobury, Stephen

Personnel: Gautam Rangarajan (tenor); Robert Rice, Paul Robinson (baritone); Michael Pearce (treble).

Recording information: Chapel Of King's College, Cambridge, MA (12/16/1991-12/19/1991)....continue...

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; et al / Cincinnati Wind Symphony

1 CD / Klavier / 1993-01-01

Works: Edward Gregson: Celebration, for symphony band; Vincent Persichetti: Symphony no 6 ("For Band"), Op. 69; Arnold Schoenberg: Theme and Variations for wind band in G minor, Op. 43a; Nicholas Maw: Ameri...
Performers: Black, William; Burgess, John
Conductors: Corporon, Eugene