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LOUTH CONTEMPORARY MUSIC LAUNCHES EMBERS - WORLD PREMIÈRES FOR STRINGS BY VALENTIN SILVESTROV AND RAYMOND DEANE - ON 5 MARCH 2021

28/1/2021

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Embers

While the Pandemic persists in making regular concerts impossible, the Louth Contemporary Music Society continues its work in the studio. Last autumn’s CD release Meadow, featuring music by Linda Catlin Smith, won praise from leading critics on both sides of the Atlantic, including Alex Ross in The New Yorker. Now comes a follow-up, Embers - three world première recordings again devoted to music for strings – instruments that, in their intimacy, seem to touch our moment.

In Samuel Beckett's radio play Embers, the main character stands at the sea shore, sifting through fragments of memory and story that are still living embers, hot to the touch. So it is in this recording, in which music by distinguished Irish composer Raymond Deane supports robustly an important quartet by one of the great masters of our age, Valentin Silvestrov.


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The opener, Deane’s Marthiya, is named after a form of Middle Eastern lament. It was composed in the wake of the 2003 Iraq invasion. The music’s 'atmosphere of mourning', Deane writes, is 'not unrelated to the devastation wreaked on Iraq since 2003, and to the wider carnage inflicted upon the Arab and Islamic world'.

Deane’s other contribution is the title track, written thirty years earlier but with the same recognisable voice. Though perhaps more questioning than elegiac, Embers is music again on the edge of tears. Ideas, bits of tune, come and go, and recur, very much as things come and go, and come back once more, like in Beckett's play. To quote the composer: 'The piece obsessively turns over musical fragments which seem to have some remote but uncertain origin.'


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Silvestrov’s music gives voice to the sense we may all feel of being bereft, left behind by what was once a social culture of sympathy and togetherness. Listening to his Third String Quartet, composed in 2011, we seem to be watching from the dock as a great ocean liner slowly slides away, taking with it our hopes and our dreams. Something of this feeling of being on the sidelines of history may come from the composer’s inheritance as a Ukrainian. Ireland, he notes, is not so far away: 'I believe there is some Irish accent, and some simple melodies, that permeate the whole work and may sound as symbols of this wonderful country, in whose destiny and historical legacy I perceive a close spiritual affinity to Ukraine, my homeland.'


All three works are captured in intense, poignant performances by leading ensembles: Crash (Marthiya) and the Carducci Quartet (Embers; Silvestrov, String Quartet No.3).

Embers releases on 5 March 2021 on CD, iTunes/Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, Qobuz and all main digital service providers. It is the world première recording of Silvestrov, String Quartet No.3,  Deane's Marthiya and of the string quartet (original) version of Deane's Embers, which has been released previously in its subsequent string orchestra version by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in 2016.

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Pre-order on iTunes: https://music.apple.com/album/1551993326
Streaming links will be announced here prior to release day.

Louth Contemporary Music Society is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and financially supported by Create Louth. Cover image: 'Grotto' by David Quinn, used with kind permission of the artist.


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MARGARET MARSHALL LAUNCHES SONGBIRD ALBUM: PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED RECORDINGS FROM THE 1970s

21/12/2020

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Scottish lyric soprano Margaret Marshall presents Songbird – an album of previously unpublished recordings, released on 1 December 2020. Songbird features music by Purcell, J.S. Bach, Handel, Mozart and Finzi, all recorded by German radio networks in the 1970s.

Songbird offers a unique document of the early years of Margaret Marshall’s career immediately after she won the 1974 Munich ARD International Music Competition. It is a testament to one of the late Twentieth Century’s most outstanding lyric sopranos, bearing witness to the vocal agility, purity and depth of musicianship for which she become renowned:


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1. Purcell: The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation

2. J. S. Bach: Non sa che sia dolore, BWV 209

3. Handel: Guardian Angels, from The Triumph of Time & Truth, HWV 71

4. Mozart: Ah’ lo Previdi - ah t’invola agl’occhi miei, K 272

5. Finzi: Dies Natalis [1]

Margaret Marshall comments: ‘I’m thrilled that Songbird has been released digitally. I retired from professional singing fifteen years ago and never imagined I would be releasing ‘new’ music. But thanks to wonderfully supportive friends, here it is! Alongside music by Purcell, J.S. Bach, Handel and Mozart – composers and works I loved to sing – is Finzi’s beautiful Dies Natalis, best known for tenors but also a wonderful sing for sopranos.’
 
Miss Marshall shares her experience of singing these works on her new website www.margaretmarshallsongbird.com

Margaret Marshall is one of the finest discoveries of recent years. A perfect technique carries this radiant voice, more varied in colour than some of her world-famous colleagues, full of life and energy, of exquisite expression where the vocalisation pours forth inner enchantment and surpasses technical virtuosity.[2]

[1] 1 and 4: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mosche Atzmon and Hanns-Martin Schneidt; 2: Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Hans Zender; 3. NDR Elbphilharmonie Orkester; Günther Weissenborn: 5. Mainz Chamber Orchestra, Günter Kehr

[2] J.S. Bach, Easter Oratorio, Kurt Redel (conductor), Le Monde, 20 April 1976


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ANTOINE PRÉAT LAUNCHES FIRST SOLO PIANO ALBUM POLYPHONY ON 15 JANUARY 2021: BACH , CHOPIN, SCRIABIN

15/12/2020

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Ulysses Arts launches Franco-Belgian pianist Antoine Préat's first solo album, Polyphony, on 15 January 2021, with music by J.S. Bach, Chopin and Scriabin. Polyphony follows Antoine's debut recording of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.31, Op.110, released by Ulysses Arts in June 2020.

J.S. Bach, Toccata in C Minor, BWV 911
Chopin, Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op. 61
Scriabin, Sonate-Fantaisie, Op. 19

Antoine comments: 'Born into a Baroque-fanatic family in Paris, I grew up immersed in the sound of the 'cello and harpsichord. I have always been intrigued by polyphonic music, with deep emotion contained within a perfectly assembled puzzle. I started this theme with Beethoven’s Op.110; my debut album of Bach, Chopin and Scriabin continues this exploration of intricate polyphony in the solo piano repertoire.’



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J.S. Bach C minor Toccata BWV 911 on Apple Music's Bach and the Baroque playlist
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Scriabin, Sonata-Fantasy Op.19 II. Presto on Apple Music's The A-List Classical (France)

Antoine Préat

Described by Radio France as ‘one of the most gifted pianists of the younger generation’ and as ‘a young artist with a distinctive voice’, Franco-Belgian pianist Antoine Préat is establishing himself as a soloist and chamber musician. 

Since his orchestral debut at 17, playing Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2 with the Orchestra of Alicante, Antoine has performed with The Tonerl Chamber Orchestra, Sainsbury Soloists, Academy Festival Orchestra, London Student Orchestra and Resonate Chamber Ensemble.  

Winner of Making Music's Philip and Dorothy Green Award 2020, and recently appointed City Music Foundation Artist 2020, Antoine performs regularly in Europe and the United States in halls such as the Salle Cortot, Salle Gaveau, Wigmore Hall, Thayer Hall, Paris Beaux Arts Museum and Frederyk Chopin Institute. His performances have been broadcast by the BBC, Scala Radio and France Musique.

Performance highlights include festivals such as the Nohant Chopin Festival, Lisztomanias, Chopin à Bagatelle, Les Concerts d’Esther, Marathon Chopin, Les Nuits du Piano in Paris, IMS Prussia Cove, Encuentro de Santander. An avid chamber musician, Antoine was the youngest artist invited to join the Centre de Musique de Chambre de Paris, directed by Jérôme Pernoo, with whom he gave a concert series at the Salle Cortot sponsored by Deutsche Gramophone. He has been a finalist or prizewinner in numerous competitions such as the Ettlingen Competition for Young Pianists, Concours International de la Ville de Gagny, Concours international d’Ile de France and received an honour prize at the New York Début Piano Competition.

Having completed his postgraduate course with honours at the Ecole Normale de Paris with Ludmilla Berlinskaia and Guigla Katsrava, Antoine continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music with Tatiana Sarkissova and Christopher Elton, receiving a Master of Arts and the DipRam, its highest qualification.

To enrich his understanding of the instrument and its repertoire, Antoine began to study fortepiano and period instruments with Carole Cerasi at the Royal Academy and has also been guided from artists such as Andreas Staier, Tobias Koch, Philippe Cassard, Alberta Alexandrescu, Robert Levin, Jerome Lowenthal, Richard Goode, Imogen Cooper and Stephen Hough.

Antoine is supported by The City Music Foundation, Talent Unlimited, Hattori Foundation and Making Music.


... et maintenant en français:

- Beethoven Sonate op°110 en La Majeur
Single de promotion sorti le 19 Juin 2020, playlisté par Apple Music, recueillant plus de 50,000 écoutes
- Bach Toccata en Do mineur BWV911, Chopin Polonaise Fantaisie op°65, Scriabin Sonate n°2 op°19 sorti le 15 Janvier 2021, playlisté par Spotify dans “Classical New Releases”

Vidéo de promotion: https://youtu.be/VWMMPV8-JR8

L’album

'Mon premier album, enregistré à Londres au courant de cette tumultueuse année 2020, se focalise sur l’évolution de l’écriture polyphonique au fil des différentes époques. Vouant une affection particulière à J.S Bach, je souhaitais souligner son influence sur le processus de composition de ses successeurs. Si Bach lui-même fut influencé par ses prédécesseurs, tels que Buxtehude ou Kerll.

il demeure la figure ‘phare’ de la période baroque et de l’écriture polyphonique (que ce soit sous forme de fugue, de choral, d’aria ou de sonate). Toutes les pièces de cet album jouent aussi sur la liberté de la forme musicale: une Toccata comprenant un choral et deux fugues, une Sonate de Beethoven avec ses multiples fugues et arias, la Polonaise-Fantaisie, alternant marche patriotique,
choral et mélodie accompagnées, et la Sonate de Scriabin en deux mouvements.)

Dans ses dernières années, Beethoven se tourne à nouveau vers la musique de Bach et de Haendel, qu’il avait toujours beaucoup admirés. Cette influence est très présente dans ses œuvres dites “de la troisième période” (qui fut d’ailleurs sa dernière), au cours de laquelle il composa certaines de ses œuvres les plus acclamées : la Hammerklavier, les trois dernières sonates pour piano, le quatuor op°131, la Grosse Fugue op°133, Die Weihe des Hauses op°124.

Beethoven, éclatant la forme classique et ouvrant grand la porte à ses successeurs romantiques, insuffle un souffle nouveau à la forme fuguée et à la polyphonie complexe du XVIIIème siècle. Frédéric Chopin est souvent considéré (à tort selon moi) comme le “romantique” par excellence, le
symbole du rubato à outrance interprété avec une mièvrerie mal placée. Il était très important pour moi d’établir un parallèle entre l’oeuvre de Chopin celle de Bach car non seulement Chopin portait une véritable adoration à son vénérable prédécesseur, mais leurs oeoeuvres ne sont pas si éloignées les unes des autres bien qu’appartenant à un style et une époque différents. Si l’on étudie avec attention les compositions de Chopin, on constate que ce qui peut à première vue être qualifié de “mélodie accompagnée” se révèle souvent bien plus complexe et polyphonique qu’il n’y parait (les accompagnements notamment comprennent bien souvent un contrepoint développé en plusieurs lignes mélodiques). Enfin, le rubato dont on parle tant chez Chopin me rappelle la notion d’ ‘élan’ et de respiration en musique Baroque, et ne devrait pas conduire à ce qualificatif de “sentimentalisme” (simplement parce qu’il s’agit la de musique dite ‘romantique’, si la respiration n’est pas naturelle, l’interpretation ne l’est pas plus).

Alexandre Scriabin est le seul compositeur présent qui ne se soit pas réclamé de Bach de son vivant. C’est ce qui me semblait si intéressant: Scriabin, si inspiré au début de sa vie par Chopin, reflète souvent l’influence que Bach a eu sur la musique ‘classique’ à travers sa manière de composer, son sens de l’architecture, de la structure et de la complexité des voix intérieures de certaines de ses partitions.

Quelques mots

Ayant étudié le clavecin et la musique baroque dès mon enfance, ce thème me tient vraiment à coœur, et je suis ravi d’avoir pu l’explorer à travers ce premier disque. Je tiens à preciser que ce disque devait également sortir en magasin, mais la deuxième journée d’enregistrement (Bach, Chopin, Scriabin) ayant été décalée de plusieurs mois à cause du COVID-19, et le piano premièrement utilisé ayant été endommagé, j’ai dû séparer la sonate de Beethoven et le reste de l’album.'

Antoine Préat, janvier 2021


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BÜYÜKADA ENSEMBLE RELEASES FIRST RECORDING FROM SEPTEMBER 2020 LIVE BROADCAST - WARLOCK CAPRIOL SUITE ON 18 DECEMBER

13/12/2020

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The Büyükada Ensemble releases its first recording, made from its IBB TV live broadcast in September 2020, with Warlock's Capriol Suite, on 18 December. Comprising members of the Turkish National Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and musicians from the UK and Germany, the Ensemble's recording is conducted by James Ross.

Download the recording on iTunes at https://music.apple.com/album/warlock-capriol-suite-ep/1542085175

The Büyükada Ensemble's live broadcast was supported by the European Union Delegation to Turkey, Adalar Municipality and Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.



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Further recordings from the live broadcast, including Debussy, Danse Sacrée et danse profane with soloist Yonca Atar, and Saygun Allegretto from the Solo 'Cello Partita with Lale Efendiev, will be released in 2021.

Recording Engineer: Kıvılcım Konca
Mastering and Post-Production: John Croft - http://chiaro-audio.uk
UPC 5054526832473
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LAURA CATRANI SINGS LA CASA AND MADRIGALE BY MICHELE TADINI, RELEASING ON 18 DECEMBER 2020

28/11/2020

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Ulysses Arts releases Michele Tadini's contemporary vocal works La Casa and Madrigale, with all parts sung by Laura Catrani, and electronic sampling by the composer. Michele Tadini comments:

'La Casa and Madrigale are built  substantially on Laura Catrani's voice,: the recordings, sampling and processing of the voice give total life to the sound palette. La Casa (The House) represents our most intimate space, the heart of our existence. Madrigale is a song, of sorrow and hope. At the origins of these pieces there is a broader work: Unheimlich - exiles in their own land, a variable score for sound and image, female voice, percussion, electronics, first performed at Mittelfest, Cividale del Friuli, in 2002.'


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ANNEKE SCOTT AND BENEDICT PREECE: J.S. BACH CHORALE PRELUDES FOR CORNO DA TIRARSI AND ORGAN RELEASING ON 11 DECEMBER 2020

18/11/2020

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Ulysses Arts is delighted to release a new recording of J.S.Bach's music re-imagined for corno da tirarsi and organ performed by Anneke Scott (corno da tirarsi) and Benedict Preece (organ).

The 2020 Pandemic saw Anneke Scott work her way through all of Bach’s chorales on her corno da tirarsi as part of a project she entitled “Corno Not Corona”. Out of this was sparked the idea of a collaboration with organist Benedict Preece in which the pair would re-configure a number of Bach Chorale Preludes incorporating the corno da tirarsi on the chorale melodies.

The recording is a testament to the many ways in which musicians have had to be resourceful and resilient in this most testing of years for the arts. The two musicians recorded their contributions in isolation, with Benedict performing the organ part using Hauptwerk, a state-of-the-art virtual instrument. Hauptwerk contains high quality samples of some of the finest organs in the world and each stop is relayed through the software to enable organists to play the chosen organ from any location. For this recording Benedict selected the Muller organ of St. Bavo Church, Haarlem.

Matching a “virtual” instrument is Anneke’s “hypothetical” corno da tirarsi (made by Egger in Switzerland). The corno da tirarsi has been a conundrum for many years. Bach wrote for the instrument but no instrument appears to survive. Normally Bach writes for the corno da tirarsi doubling soprano chorale melodies in his cantata, hence it feeling like an appropriate instrument to incorporate in his chorale preludes.

TRACK LISTING
  1. Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g’mein, BWV 734
  2. “Jesus bleibet meine Freude" (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring) from Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben BWV 147
  3. Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 646
  4. Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV Anh.55
  5. Wir Christenleut hab'n jetzund Freud, BWV 710
  6. Fantasia super “Christ lag in Todes Banden”, BWV 695
  7. Meine Seele erhebt den Herren, BWV 648
  8. ‘ Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645
  9. Fantasia super 'Valet will ich dir geben', BWV 735


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BAROQUE JEWELRY FROM VIOLINIST MAXIMILANE NORWOOD, LAUNCHING ON 4 DECEMBER 2020

1/11/2020

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This album of music for Baroque violin establishes a link between music and fine art. The Baroque’s symmetry in architecture and way of life characterizes the music and the cover of this album.

The almost exactly symmetrical alleyway depicts Baroque violinist Maximiliane Norwood in the middle of the composition. She strives to connect music, fine art, and rhetoric. The result is a performance for all artistic senses.





TRACK LISTING
1. Tomaso Albinoni (1671–1751): Sonata in D Minor, Op. 4 No. 1: I. Adagio

2. Antonio Bertali (1605–1669): Ciaccona in C Major

3. Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729): Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Major: II. Adagio

4. Andrea Falconieri (ca. 1585–1656): Il Primo Libro di Canzone: Brando dicho el Melo;
Corriente dicha la Mota, echa para Don Pedro dela Mota

5. Giovanni Battista Fontana (1589–1630): Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Major

Tracks 1–4: Maximiliane Norwood (Baroque Violin), Jacopo Sabina (Theorbo)
Track 5: Maximiliane Norwood (Baroque Violin), Cornelia Demmer (Theorbo), Chloé de Guillebon (Virginal)

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LOUTH CONTEMPORARY MUSIC SOCIETY LAUNCHES '...OUT OF SILENCE' WITH MEADOW, BY LINDA CATLIN SMITH, RELEASED ON 11 DECEMBER 2020

31/10/2020

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…out of silence

Louth Contemporary Music Society proudly announces a bold initiative for these uncertain times: a series of recordings put together under the exceptional conditions of the pandemic, …out of silence lets listeners eavesdrop on music-making of extraordinary care and intimacy.

The recordings feature world-renowned composers attuned to the intricacies of silence as much as sound. Performances are by musicians of equal sensitivity and expertise.


The first ...out of silence release is Meadow, by Linda Catlin Smith, born in New York but long resident in Canada. Perhaps her music required a move away, a quieter environment, a different pace, another view.

It is not city music. Rather, in its tuning and atmosphere, it suggests natural landscapes.

“A meadow”, the composer has said, “is a simple place, with elements that are there quite naturally; it’s not a spectacular garden, but if you look closely there are many different types of plants and tiny flowers. It is a place of infinite variation.”

This is how the music goes, weaving a meadow, weaving through a meadow, in stray fragments of tune that will be repeated until they dissolve or give way to something else, through chord sequences that move slowly but inexorably.

Listeners are drawn into this gentle but alert music by three outstanding Irish string players: Mia Cooper, violin, Joachim Roewer, viola and Bill Butt, 'cello.


There is no hurry, no need to hurry. To quote Linda Catlin Smith again, “I like to sit with things for a while, to dwell in the material, to have a chance to listen.” This is the experience she provides in Meadow.

On the cover of the album is a striking image by the Irish artist Alice Maher.

Release date: 11 December 2020 (5 February 2021: North America)

Future releases will present music by Valentin Silvestrov and Raymond Deane on 5 March 2021, and Swiss master of unexpected simplicity Jürg Frey, with whom Louth Contemporary Music Society has over several years developed a close relationship.

...out of silence is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and supported financially by Create Louth.


BBC RADIO 3 RECORD REVIEW - at 1'54"
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MAYA MUSIC AND ULYSSES ARTS PRESENT SACHA PUTTNAM SPIRIT OF CINEMA WITH THE CLASSIC FILM ORCHESTRA ALBUM RELEASE: 6 NOVEMBER 2020

29/10/2020

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Cinema has always been a part of Sacha Puttnam’s life, his dad being the iconic and multi-award winning producer David Puttnam whose films have won 10 Oscars and 25 BAFTAS. Living, breathing and absorbing a world where he was surround by filmmakers, illustrious composers and music producers such as Mark Knopfler, Michael Kamen and George Fenton Sacha’s obvious aptitude for music flourished.
Mentored by the likes of legendary film composer Vangelis (Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner) and Quincy Jones (Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis), Sacha studied at Boston’s Berklee College of Music and then Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he conducted Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony at the Bolshoi Hall on Christmas Day, 1991.

Sacha has scored over 30 films with prestigious directors including Robert Lepage and John Pilger. For long term collaborator director John Drydon Sacha created the soundtracks to several multi-award winning BBC Radio 4 dramas such as A Suitable Boy and Bleak House. Along with a successful career in classical composition and film, Sacha was the long-standing keys and sometimes bass player for the multi-platinum selling band Bush and his best friend, front man Gavin Rossdale, headlining Woodstock in 1999 to 250,000 fans. Sacha has written and arranged for, and collaborated with, numerous big names in the pop and rock world, including Sia, Marcela Detroit (of Shakespeare’s Sister fame) Reef, Regina Spektor, and Andy Taylor. He released an album in 2005 entitled Remasterpiece on EMI Classics and has written for and featured on hundreds of other records including favourites on Café Del Mar.

"I’m thrilled to share my musical tributes to the iconic film scores I grew up around. I know the melodies will resonate with many and I hope that bringing the orchestra to the electronic will enable many more to get to know and love them,” says Sacha. “This album has allowed me to thank and honour [the] great musicians who generously gave their time and shared their knowledge, inspiring my path as a composer.”

You could say Sacha was destined to create Spirit of Cinema, with his background in film and sensitive ear his versions of these classic film score pieces for piano and orchestra not only do the originals justice, but bring a fresh new perspective to these varied genres of music. You can hear more on Sacha’s experience growing up around these films and artists and of course the music in the accompanying podcast, Spirit of Cinema available on all podcast platforms.

SPIRIT OF CINEMA TRACKLIST

• Love’s Theme by Giorgio Moroder for his Oscar winning score for Midnight Express (1978)
• Sailing Homeward by Donovan for the Pied Piper (1972)
• Chariots of Fire form Vangelis’ Oscar winning score for Chariots of Fire (1981)
• War of the Buttons Suite from Rachel Portman’s score for the film War of the Buttons (1994)
• First of May by The Bee Gees for the film Melody (1971)
• Gabriel’s Theme by Ennio Morricone for The Mission (1986) which combines two pieces form the score (The Falls and Gabriel’s Oboe) and for which Morricone won the BAFTA and Golden Globe for his score.
• Londonderry Air, which is a folk song from 1913 used by George Fenton for the film Memphis Belle (1980)
• Eric’s Theme by Vangelis for Chariots of Fire (1981)
• Theme from Midnight Express (Istanbul) by Giorgio Moroder for Midnight Express (1978)
• The Confessional by Sacha Puttnam for Le Confessional (1995): Sacha’s original score
• Going Home by Mark Knopfler for Local Hero (1983)
• Boy’s Burial by Mike Oldfield for The Killing Fields (1984)

Sacha currently is working on a documentary film on the life of Bauhaus trained designer and architect Marcel Breuer, a BBC Radio 4 drama, a podcast for Audible, and an Irish period drama. His next release with The Classic Film Orchestra will be Abraham's Theme by Vangelis, from Chariots of Fire, on 26 February 2021.


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https://sachaputtnam.com
https://mayamusic.co.uk
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CHARIOTS OF FIRE BY VANGELIS ARRANGED BY SACHA PUTTNAM, WITH THE CLASSIC FILM ORCHESTRA - LAUNCHED ON 23 OCTOBER 2020

14/10/2020

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With this heartfelt homage to his mentor, Vangelis, and his Oscar winning score for the film Chariots of Fire, Sacha Puttnam brings this timeless Olympic anthem to The Classic Film Orchestra with his tender touch on the piano.  

Sacha comments: ‘I met Vangelis aged eleven in his studio where I returned every day to learn not only music, but about life and art.’  This music will appeal to those nostalgic for the films, film scores and music of the eighties, but also to a younger audience, inquisitive to learn more about classical music and soundtracks.


Chariots of Fire is the final pre-release prior to the launch of Spirit of Cinema, Sacha Puttnam's full album of piano and orchestra arrangements of great film scores, on Friday 6 November, including music by Vangelis, Ennio Morricone, Giorgio Moroder, The Bee Gees, Donovan, Mark Knopfler, Rachel Portman and Mike Oldfield.

About Sacha Puttnam


Cinema has always been a part of Sacha Puttnam’s life, his dad being the iconic and multi-award
winning producer David Puttnam whose films have won 10 Oscars and 25 BAFTAS. Living, breathing and absorbing a world where he was surround by filmmakers, illustrious composers and music producers such as Mark Knopfler, Michael Kamen and George Fenton Sacha’s obvious aptitude for music flourished. Having been mentored by the likes of legendary film composer Vangelis (Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner) and Quincy Jones (Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis), Sacha studied at Boston’s Berklee College of Music and then Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he conducted Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony at the Bolshoi Hall on Christmas Day, 1991.

Sacha has scored over 30 films with prestigious directors including Robert Lepage and John Pilger. For long term collaborator director John Drydon Sacha created the soundtracks to several multi-award winning BBC Radio 4 dramas such as A Suitable Boy and Bleak House. Along with a successful career in classical composition and film, Sacha was the long-standing keys and sometimes bass player for the multi-platinum selling band Bush and his best friend, front man Gavin Rossdale, headlining Woodstock in 1999 to 250,000 fans. Sacha has written and arranged for, and collaborated with, numerous big names in the pop and rock world, including Sia, Marcela Detroit (of Shakespeare’s Sister fame) Reef, Regina Spektor, and Andy Taylor. He released an album in 2005 entitled Remasterpiece on EMI Classics and has written for and featured on hundreds of other records including favourites on Café Del Mar.

Sacha Puttnam's next Vangelis release, with The Classic Film Orchestra, is Abraham's Theme, also from Chariots of Fire, on 26 February 2021.



Spotify Album URI spotify:album:5e2UQutDh0uGpYqLbdOncb
Spotify Album URL: http://open.spotify.com/album/5e2UQutDh0uGpYqLbdOncb
Spotify Track URI: spotify:track:70ro82XapxkjBCnAPNLjaq
Spotify Track URL: http://open.spotify.com/track/70ro82XapxkjBCnAPNLjaq

iTunes URL: https://music.apple.com/us/album/chariots-of-fire-from-chariots-of-fire-single/1535227141?ls=1&app=itunes
Apple Music URL: https://music.apple.com/us/album/chariots-of-fire-from-chariots-of-fire-single/1535227141?ls=1
Album Apple ID: 1535227141

Deezer: https://deezer.page.link/cqf3S7CcN9fGeMLr6

YouTube: https://youtu.be/sNnD6AkZ5U4
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Cowboy and Preacher film soundtrack releasing on 11 September 2020

22/8/2020

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Ulysses Arts releases Richard Quesnel's soundtrack to Cowboy and Preacher, on iTunes/Apple Music, Spotify and all main digital service providers on Friday 11 September. Cowboy and Preacher is a documentary film exploring environmentalism and religion in the USA through the life of Tri Robinson. Directed by Will Fraser, the film is released on 15 September 2020.

Discover more about Cowboy and Preacher at https://cowboyandpreacher.com

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Album Details

Performers:
Hélène Callonnec - violin
Matthieu Langlet - clarinet
Jacques-Alexis Marcon - double bass
Richard Quesnel - keyboard
Antoine Scaviner - guitar

Spotify:
URI: spotify:album:2YGsTftyHPsCzn9pnrXmnw
URL: http://open.spotify.com/album/2YGsTftyHPsCzn9pnrXmnw

Richard Quesnel: Spotify
URI: spotify:artist:4Olirp5DHFhWwezZPxaGjD
URL: http://open.spotify.com/artist/4Olirp5DHFhWwezZPxaGjD

iTunes:
URL: https://music.apple.com/album/cowboy-preacher-life-times-tri-robinson-original-motion/1528599024?ls=1&app=itunes
Apple Music:
URL: https://music.apple.com/album/cowboy-preacher-life-times-tri-robinson-original-motion/1528599024?ls=1
Album Apple ID: 1528599024

Qobuz:
https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/cowboy-and-preacher-the-life-and-times-of-tri-robinson-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-richard-quesnel-with-helene-callonnec-matthieu-langlet-jacques-alexis-marcon-antoine-scaviner/rj2vf5k30xtdb

UPC 505452601229
Post-producting and mastering: Mark Hodgkin
Artwork adaptation: Hannah Whale / Fruition Creative Concepts



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Claraliz Mora sings 'Je dis' from Bizet's Carmen - live from Xalapa, Mexico

20/8/2020

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Mexican soprano Claraliz Mora's performance of Bizet's aria 'Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante' from Act Three of Carmen is released digitally by Ulysses Arts on 14 August 2020.

This live recording comes from a staged performance with the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lanfranco Marcelletti, in November 2019.

Claraliz Mora describes her experience performing Micaela:
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'Performing the role of Micaela, debuting it, was a team experience. It was thanks to the effort and hard work of many, many, people, that this wonderful opera Carmen could be made and performed. Especially thanks to Armando Mora, the leader of this project, the University of Xalapa, and conductor Lanfranco Marcelletti, that this beautiful creative project was accomplished. For me, it was just AN HONOUR to be part of this team. As an artist, when you get to do what you love, it's not work - it's a connection to something higher than yourself, and you cannot help but be grateful.

This aria is about a young woman who goes to a dangerous place to seek out and "save" the person she loves. Love is what drives her - what drives her past her fears - past her fear even of death. And this is exactly what art teaches us in this moment that we are living: it can be a fearful time, not knowing what to expect, what will happen, BUT you never should lose faith, and never should lose hope. Love is always there. It is a beacon.'

Release Details

Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa conducted by Lanfranco Marcelletti Jr.
Download on iTunes or stream on Apple Music::
https://music.apple.com/album/carmen-act-3-no-22-je-dis-que-rien-ne-m%C3%A9pouvante-live/1525680774
Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/6jWFEHYaWCU5Yg03UxBYIp
YouTube: https://youtu.be/wbp9qBBs0JU
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/track/1037154782
Qobuz:
https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/carmen-act-3-no-22-je-dis-que-rien-ne-mepouvante-claraliz-mora/cja4kpzzr0eac
Post-production: John Croft / Chiaro Audio (http://chiaro-audio.uk)
Cover design: Christian Bubenheim
UPC: 5054526850842 /
https://www.facebook.com/events/2888369068062467
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Anton Rosputko releases debut recording of Chopin, Piano Sonata No. 3, on 28 August

10/8/2020

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Latvian pianist and Vienna resident Anton Rosputko releases his debut recording, of Chopin, Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58, on 28 August 2020.

Anton Rosputko was born in Jūrmala (Latvia) in 1993. Interntional awards include 1st Prize, Gradus ad Parnassum Competition (Kaunas, Lithuania); Third Open Russian Competition in Kaliningrad, 2nd Prize, Virtuosi per musica di pianoforte, Ústí nad Labem (Czech Republic
), 3rd Prize; Schumer Prize in Enschede (Netherlands), 2nd Prize (2007) and 1st Prize (2010) at the Jūrmala International Competition. His main mentors have been Tatyana Pavlyuchenko, Jānis Maļeckis, Pavel Gililov and Boris Petrushansky.


Anton Rosputko received a Latvian Ministry of Culture prize in 2005, 2006 and 2008, as well as a Latvian 'Recognition Award' in 2009. In 2012 he received the Hübel Foundation Scholarship. He is a prize-winner of the Mozarteum International Summer Academy (Salzburg, Austria, 2009), including performing in the Salzburg Festival.

Anton has also taken part in masterclasses with Armen Babakhanian, Arkadiy Sevidov, Pavel Gililov, Sergej Maltsev, Anatol Ugorski, Peter Tacács, Jacques Rouvier, Matti Raekallio, Siegfried Mauser, Wolfgang Manz, Boris Petrushansky and Denis Proshayev.

Anton Rosputko was a participant of the Kaunas Festival in Lithuania in 2006 and 2010. As a soloist with orchestra he has performed with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and Normunds Vaicis, Sinfonia Concertante Orchestra with Andris Vecumnieks, Kaunas City Orchestra and Modestas Pitrenas, Liepāja Symphony, and Amber Sound Orchestra with Tadeusz Wojciechowski. Anton Rosputko has performed widely in Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Italy, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Performance venues include the Great Hall and the Vienna Hall of the Mozarteum Foundation, Solitär Hall of the Mozarteum University, Great Concert Hall of the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, Great Hall of the University of Music and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Theatre Leipzig, the Concert Hall of Kaliningrad Philharmoniс Society, Great Hall of Kaunas State Philharmonic Society; the Small Guild, Riga House of Moscow, Great Hall of Latvian National Opera and Dzintari Concert Hall.

Release Details

Download:
iTunes: https://music.apple.com/album/chopin-piano-sonata-no-3-in-b-minor-op-58-ep/1525608771
Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chopin-Piano-Sonata-No-minor/dp/B08DX55S8Y

Stream:
Spotify:

http://open.spotify.com/album/4GuBmUalvuWpUreNQYvmZk


Deezer:
https://deezer.page.link/PLaZodrDaSTZbB9G6


Qobuz:
https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/chopin-piano-sonata-no-3-in-b-minor-op-58-anton-rosputko/ydx2ojolfbqta

Recording Engineer: Sascha Tekale
Apple Digital Masters Certification: John Croft
- Chiaro Audio
UPC 5054526851603
YouTube:
1st movement - https://youtu.be/T0JOWEXxq4c
2nd movement - https://youtu.be/yMAA93OrKds
3rd movement - https://youtu.be/UYoZY9_-gY0
4th movement - https://youtu.be/b2xUK-0Hc1c

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Featured on Spotify's Classical New Releases playlist
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Sacha Puttnam releases Istanbul and Love's Theme from upcoming album Spirit of Cinema on 25 September 2020

5/8/2020

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Composer Sacha Puttnam releases his symphonic orchestral versions of Giorgio Moroder's Istanbul and Love's Theme on Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer and all main digital service providers on Friday 25 September 2020, with The Classic Film Orchestra.
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Love's Theme and Istanbul anticipate the launch of Sacha Puttnam's full album, Spirit of Cinema, scheduled for 6 November 2020.

Release Details

Istanbul: UPC 5054526006225
Spotify Album URI: spotify:album:1oK63CV8kF7vi08Wq6PcoE
Spotify Album URL: http://open.spotify.com/album/1oK63CV8kF7vi08Wq6PcoE
Spotify Track URI: spotify:track:35bnyzsI5vcG53NgX0mXb5
Spotify Track URL: http://open.spotify.com/track/35bnyzsI5vcG53NgX0mXb5

iTunes URL: https://music.apple.com/us/album/istanbul-single/1527145833?ls=1&app=itunes
Apple Music URL: https://music.apple.com/us/album/istanbul-single/1527145833?ls=1

Deezer: https://deezer.page.link/jCYjpycCTz5pmLRz6
YouTube: https://youtu.be/wkUefxABUNY

Love's Theme: UPC 5054526005990
Spotify Album URI: spotify:album:6P2MgNgF19MHPNQDUIo6KC
Spotify Album URL: http://open.spotify.com/album/6P2MgNgF19MHPNQDUIo6KC
Spotify Track URI: spotify:track:5GDRi17PXH6mZpQyiLIxgG
Spotify Track URL: http://open.spotify.com/track/5GDRi17PXH6mZpQyiLIxgG

iTunes URL: https://music.apple.com/album/loves-theme-single/1527174764?ls=1&app=itunes
Apple Music URL: https://music.apple.com/album/loves-theme-single/1527174764

Deezer: https://deezer.page.link/aTTfwMKfuVxdgsSSA
Qobuz: https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/loves-theme-sacha-puttnam/covhcdhb093ba
YouTube: https://youtu.be/xJdfa1pAxmc
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Thomas Kelly Debut Releases - Liszt, Chopin and Schumann on Ulysses Arts

31/7/2020

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Ulysses Arts is delighted to release pianist Thomas Kelly's debut recordings, starting with Liszt, Rhapsodie espagnole, on 21 August 2020. Chopin Nocturne in D-flat Op. 27 No. 2 follows on 4 September, and Schumann's Toccata Op. 7 on 25 September.
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James Ross, director of Ulysses Arts, comments:

'It is a great pleasure to be launching Thomas Kelly's debut recording with Ulysses Arts on Friday 21 August, of Liszt's Rhapsodie espagnole. I first met Thomas when judging the The Purcell School's Senior Concerto Competition a few years back. He played Brahms' Second Piano Concerto. Beforehand I was sceptical about the likelihood of a 17-year old pianist being ready musically to interpret this work, however technically impressive or promising they were. I was wrong: Thomas' performance was utterly convincing and he won the first prize amongst a field of excellent finalists crowded with talent.

Since then I have had the pleasure of performing Rachmaninov PIano Concerto No. 1 with Thomas, and of hearing him continue to develop as a musician - it is therefore hugely exciting now to be releasing his work.'

Thomas is currently studying at the Royal College of Music in London with Andrew Ball. His three single releases will be followed by a full album in 2021, including music by Sibelius, Prokofiev, Reubke and Tippett.

Release Information:
Liszt, Rhapsodie espagnole
https://www.facebook.com/events/945394305932960
https://music.apple.com/album/rhapsodie-espagnole-s-254-ep/1525770489
Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/7pDQ4wb98i1lx8EwXKkDNr
YouTube: https://youtu.be/KAcESj3VjcQ
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/en/album/164225212
Qobuz: https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/rhapsodie-espagnole-s-254-thomas-kelly/lqra86btae4cc
UPC 5054526852310

Chopin, Nocturne in D-flat Op. 27 No. 2
Apple Music and iTunes: https://music.apple.com/album/nocturnes-op-27-ii-lento-sostenuto-in-d-flat-major-single/1525771498
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1oidvTusUJTkVoz9Q3Pg9M
Deezer: https://deezer.page.link/JvqjX4bTefmFFWNE6
YouTube: https://youtu.be/O22MWZlMFRE
Qobuz: https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/nocturnes-op-27-ii-lento-sostenuto-in-d-flat-major-thomas-kelly/inren9m2aifgb
UPC 5054526852679

Schumann, Toccata Op. 27
Apple Music and iTunes: https://music.apple.com/album/toccata-op-7-single/1525771268
Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/7dUsPPgXmrDGMMZVcZV4HG
Deezer: https://deezer.page.link/M6Dg17iyvUPB3t9S8
YouTube: https://youtu.be/6v5ARQFyxr4
Qobuz: https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/toccata-op-7-thomas-kelly/b60joy8dbdhza
UPC 5054526852686

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