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December 2004
 
* new release
 


THE RED RED ROSE
Concerto Caledonia
DCD34014

DCD34014 © Delphian Records Ltd 2003

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Miss Murray's Reel (exerpt)

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Ae Fond Kiss (exerpt)
Robert Burns and Stephen Clarke

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Concerto Caledonia bring their exuberant flair for early Scottish music to love songs from the time of Robert Burns, and baroque/Cape Breton virtuoso David Greenberg brings along some wild fiddling from the Golden Age of the Scots violin.

The first version of Burns's most famous song The Red Red Rose appears here in its premiere recording, to the tune by Edinburgh-based Italian singer Pietro Urbani.

Alongside more songs by Burns in his own settings, and a Purcellian ode to friendship by Aberdonian lutenist and countertenor John Abell, there are fiddle tunes and courtly dances by 18th century "crossover artist" Robert Mackintosh, and traditional material from collections of Scots music in Britain and Ireland: a wide cross-section of Scottish musical culture in the 1700s.

Concerto Caledonia © Delphian Records Ltd 2003
 

 
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ORGANS IN GLASGOW
John Butt and John Kitchen
DCD34032

DCD34032 © Delphian Records Ltd 2003

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John Butt
* Carillon de Westminster (exerpt)
Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
* Nun danket alle Gott (exerpt)
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)

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John Kitchen
* Fugue: Allegro moderato (exerpt)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
* Komm Gott, Schöpfer, heilige Geist
J.S. Bach (1685-1750)


During the past 150 years, the organ landscape of Glasgow has, as is the case with almost any other British town or city, experienced widely fluctuating fortunes. John Butt and John Kitchen, two of the UK's foremost keyboard interpreters, come together in a selection of the City’s finest organs. Instruments by Hill, Lewis and Willis are heard alongside other contemporary examples showcasing the golden era in Glasgow's organ building history.
 
 


John Butt and John Kitchen play Tomkin's:
A Fancy: for two to play
 
* christmas news
 
© Delphian Records Ltd 2003

Paul Baxter
Managing Director


 



Delphian's releases throughout 2004 have really got reviewers talking: Gramophone has applauded our ‘splendidly vivid recording' culminating in our Kelvingrove organ disc being made one of the critics' choices of the year; I'm delighted to have been working with the Exon Singers for the first time, and plans are underway for our next project with International Record Review praising our partnership saying ‘I confidently predict great things for the future ... Victoria with verve – vigorously recommended'; BBC Music Magazine has lauded The National Youth Choir of Great Britain's ‘confident, committed performances' and I'm looking forward to ongoing work with Mike Brewer during the course of our forthcoming Giles Swayne recording.  

Next year new music abounds in Delphian's rapidly-growing catalogue. Matthew Owens and the Choir of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, have recorded discs comprising the music of Gabriel Jackson and Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies, including several world premieres. Amongst our new signings for next year, is CHROMA, a chamber ensemble who will also be recording a disc of Jackson's music. Chamber Domaine's debut disc with Delphian will comprise the music of Judith Bingham.

Delphian's solo artists will also be busy in the studio: Timothy Byram-Wigfield will be releasing his recording of Messiaen's ‘Les Corps Glorieux' on the organ of St George's Chapel, Windsor, and will be recording a disc of Hollin's music on the Caird Hall organ in Dundee; pianist David Wilde will record the work for which he is most renowned – Liszt's B minor sonata; Kenneth Leighton's complete piano music will be released on a three-disc set by London-based Angela Brownridge; Gordon Ferries – ‘an exponent whose star is in the ascendant' (Classical Guitar, 2004) – will record a disc of the music of Gaspar Sanz; Matthew Owens will begin recording the complete keyboard works of Pachelbel in a ten-disc project; and we will follow on the success of our very first disc with John Kitchen, Instruments of the Russell Collection, with a recording of another nine instruments from Edinburgh's unique collection.

Finally, everyone at Delphian wishes you a merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

 
 

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