November's news from the label in the festival city

*from the desk of the md

Some months ago we congratulated Delphian artist, John Kitchen, on his appointment to the position of Edinburgh City organist. His duties comprise overseeing the newly refurbished Norman and Beard organ in the Usher Hall, involving pioneering educational projects, and promoting the organ in general.

*special christmas release

DCD34901 © Delphian Records Ltd 2003

Available 1 December, 2003
from all good retailers or order direct from the Delphian website

*new partnership - 'championing new music'

Weekend beginning 7 November 2003, saw Delphian in London to record Laudibus, a professional chamber choir whose members were originally part of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. The NYC itself was recorded in September.

Samples of the music on the disc will be available on the Delphian website from January.

* continued critical acclaim

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		* news from the festival city				November 2003

*this issue
					- Kitchen records Usher Hall Organ - DVD released for Christmas - New disc of Allain's music - Kelvingrove Gallery organ on disc - Delphian's critical acclaim


*from the desk of the md
With at least one release per month, Delphian's rate of expansion has stepped up a gear as we head into the new year. Christmas sees our first venture into the DVD format. This, our third collaberation with St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, presents Christmas repertoire from the choir, Susan Hamilton, the Holyrood Clarsach Trio, and readings from Sandy McCall-Smith. As far as I'm aware, we are the first independent classical label in the UK to release a DVD. We continue to be lauded for our recordings of new and early-music alike. This sustained growth has fostered in us a confidence that our 'secondary-injection' funding applications will be well met in Spring next year. For more information about our schedule for expansion or to talk to us about our business plan and any investment opportunities, please telephone on 0845 644 9308. - PB


*in the pipeline
						Some months ago we congratulated Delphian artist, John Kitchen, on his appointment to the position of Edinburgh City organist. His duties comprise overseeing the newly refurbished Norman and Beard organ in the Usher Hall, involving pioneering educational projects, and promoting the organ in general.



We are proud to announce that Kitchen is to record the organ, in its debut disc appearance, with Delphian in January. Repertoire will be demonstrative of that which would have been heard in the organ's former heyday.
			The Usher Hall Organ DCD34022 Release date: March 2004

*special christmas release
Delphian Launches DVD This Christmas sees our very first DVD production. Also available on VHS, the film comprises carols from the choir, solo works from Susan Hamilton, and features appearances from the Holyrood Clarsach Trio. Esteemed Scottish author Alexander McCall-Smith accompanies viewers through the repertoire with biblical and contemporary readings. The disc/video can be pre-ordered now. Orders will be processed on, or before, the 1st of December. *sample the								Available 1 December, 2003 from all good retailers or order direct from the Delphian website
Choir (1.28 MB) Susan Hamilton (974 KB) Holyrood Clarsach Trio (1.03 MB)

*new partnership - 'championing new music'
							Weekend beginning 7 November 2003, saw Delphian in London to record Laudibus, a professional chamber choir whose members were originally part of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. The NYC itself was recorded in September.
The recordings will form part of a complete disc of Richard Allain's music. Allain's music first appeared with Delphian on Ascension, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (DCD34017). The forthcoming disc, scheduled for release in January 2004, will feature the National Youth Choir, Laudibus, John Harle (soprano saxophone), Susan Hamilton (soprano), and Matthew Owens (organ). Samples of the music on the disc will be available on the Delphian website from January.
* new release
The Kelvingrove Gallery Organ Timothy Byram-Wigfield It is fitting that we should congratulate Tim on his appointment to the position of Master of Music at St George's, Windsor with the release of his recording: the Kelvingrove Gallery organ. Tim plays a variety of Edwardian transcriptions on one of the country's finest concert organs. Captured using 24-bit technology for the first time, this organ is bound to impress. The repertoire highlights the immense variety of colours and nuances that this fine untouched Lewis instrument is capable of. Sinfonia to Cantata 29 Johann Sebastian Bach [1685-1750] Transcribed by Marcel Dupré [1886-1971] [4.50] sample (1.16 MB) Suite from Carmen Georges Bizet [1838-1875] Transcribed by Edwin H Lemare [11.16]sample (1.19 MB)

* continued critical acclaim
La Paix du Parnasse Lucy Carolan and John Kitchen (harpsichords) DCD34012 With 31 tracks drawn from across Couperin's output, covering the gamut of musical expression from melancholy to rambunctious exuberance, and from exquisitely intimate to quasi-orchestral in the scale of its sound, this is a fabulous collection, a riot of colour and textures. If you have not heard two harpsichords in full flight, prepare to be knocked out by this collection, played with style, verve, and panache on harpsichords from the Russell Collection by Lucy Carolan and John Kitchen, two of Scotland's finest keyboard exponents. - Michael Tumelty The Herald, September 2003
Les plaisirs les plus charmants. Gordon Ferries (baroque guitars) DCD34011 From being something of a poor relation amongst plucked stringed instruments, spurned by lutenists and classical guitarists alike, the baroque guitar has recently come into its own with several talented players beginning to take an interest in the instrument and its extensive repertoire. Gordon Ferries’ programme of late-17th century music by composers associated with the court of Louis XIV is a well-judged mixture of familiar names - Corbetta, de Visée - and their less well-known but by no means inferior contemporaries, Henri Grénerin, Rémy Médard and Antoine Carré. Read on here - Monica Hall Lute News, October 2003

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