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June 2020 New Release Round-Up

This month we bring you piano works by our latest signing Gordon Crosse, a second large batch from Richard Pantcheff, another set of works from Gustavo Díaz-Jerez plus more from Philip Cashian, Camden Reeves, Linda Catlin Smith and Jack Van Zandt.

Philip Cashian

Philip Cashian : Cortége

for piano solo

Miniature for piano solo (taken from The Devil’s Box)

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Gordon Crosse

Gordon Crosse : L’Isle Heureuse

etude or piano solo

To the Lawson family – Peter, Ariane and Annabelle.

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Gordon Crosse : Piano Sonata No.1

for piano solo

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Gordon Crosse : Ron’s Toyes

for piano solo

To Wendy Mulford with much love.Ron Fuller (1936-2017)

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Gordon Crosse : Second Piano Sonata

for piano solo

to Marc & Mark

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Gordon Crosse : Third Piano Sonata

for piano solo

To Wendy Mulford

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Gustavo Díaz-Jerez

Gustavo Díaz-Jerez : Canciones de Garajonay

for voice and piano

Settings of Belinda Sánchez Mozo poems

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Gustavo Díaz-Jerez : Critical Strip

for string quartet

A woven musical discourse exploring one of the most important yet unsolved mathematical mysteries: The Reimann Hypothesis

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Gustavo Díaz-Jerez : La casa imaginaria

an opera in one act

A tale of finding refuge from life’s hard realities in imagination. Libretto by Pilar Mateos

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Gustavo Díaz-Jerez : Partita

for marimba, vibraphone, percussion, viola d’amore and piano

I Praeambulum
II Ricercare
III Corrente
IV Aria
V Toccata

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Gustavo Díaz-Jerez : Ricercare

for viola d’amore and string orchestra

Arrangement for viola d’amore and piano of the Ricercare from the Partita for viola d’amore, three percussionists and piano

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Gustavo Díaz-Jerez : Sidhe

for violin, viola, violoncello and piano four-hands

Inspired by the poetry of Belinda Sánchez Mozo and dedicated to the Orfeo Trio

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Gustavo Díaz-Jerez : Shanti

for string quartet

Shanti, a Sanskrit word meaning “peace”, takes inspiration from the homonymous poem by Spanish poet Rafael Arozarena

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Gustavo Díaz-Jerez : Tiamat

for violin, viola, violoncello, double bass and piano

9-minute single movement work

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Gustavo Díaz-Jerez : Two Nakshatras

for solo guitar

Written for American guitarist Adam Levin and inspired by Hindu astronomy

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Gustavo Díaz-Jerez : Two Pieces

for violin and piano

Early 8-minute work

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Vic Hoyland

Vic Hoyland : E si fussi pisci un altro per DJB: perché

for seven performers

Setting of Sicilian text (275 Vitalora) for three vocalists

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Kevin Malone

Kevin Malone : Eighteen Minutes (version for high-pitch basses)

concerto for two solo double basses and strings

Charged response to the airplane collisions into the two towers of the World Trade Center, New York USA on 11 September 2001. Premiered in Kiev, Ukraine and recorded by the New world Ensemble. Naxos chose Eighteen Minutes for its Top 15 Must-Listen list out of 2 million tracks.

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Kevin Malone : Eighteen Minutes (version for concert-pitch basses)

concerto for two solo double basses and strings

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Mario Pagotto

Mario Pagotto : Nell’Aere

Inferno #5 (ballet)

Video of performance from Mittelfest 2017 published this month (view here)

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Mario Pagotto : Theós

cantata su testi di ispirazione sacra – a spiritual cantata

Cantata drawing on a range of Mystical and religious texts. Performance video published this month (view here)

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Richard Pantcheff

Richard Pantcheff : “…the field long-slept in pastoral green…”

for solo violoncello

This work was specially commissioned by Michael Katz, cellist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the United States, and has been written for him to record and put online during the period of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Richard Pantcheff : A Christmas Carol

for SATB choir and organ

Premiered by the choir of St. George’s Anglican Church, Johannesburg

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Richard Pantcheff : A Christmas Jubilate

for solo organ

First performed by the composer on the organ of St Edward’s School, Oxford

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Richard Pantcheff : The ‘Alderney’ Evening Canticles

for SATB choir with optional organ

Commissioned for the Choir of St. Anne’s Church, Alderney, Channel Islands

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Richard Pantcheff : Come, My Beloved

for SATB choir

Commissioned by the Choir of Lincoln College, Oxford

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Richard Pantcheff : Crown with love, Lord, this glad day

for SATB choir unaccompanied

Premiered in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

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Richard Pantcheff : Diptych for Derek Cooper

for solo organ

Premiered by the composer on the organ of Johannesburg City Hall

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Richard Pantcheff : Domine Exaudi

for SATB choir and organ

Commissioned for the St George’s Chamber Choir, Johannesburg

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Richard Pantcheff : Evening Canticles – ‘Berlin’

for SATB choir unaccompanied

Commissioned by The English Choir, Berlin

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Richard Pantcheff : Evening Canticles – St. Paul’s

for ATB choir and organ

Commissioned for John Scott and the Choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London

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Richard Pantcheff : Easter Introit

for SATB choir unaccompanied

Premiered in the version for SSA by the Choir of the Episcopal Church of Christ the King, Frankfurt

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Richard Pantcheff : Eternal light doth now appear

for SATB choir and piano

Commissioned for the Bristol Bach Choir

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Richard Pantcheff : The ‘Frankfurt’ Evening Canticles

for SATB choir unaccompanied

Commissioned by the Choir of the Episcopal Church of Christ the King, Frankfurt

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Richard Pantcheff : Five Elizabethan Lyrics

for AATTBB choir unaccompanied

Commissioned for the Clerks of Christ Church, Oxford

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Richard Pantcheff : Four Poems of Stephen Crane

for SATB choir and piano

Commissioned by the Rand Club Chamber Music Series

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Richard Pantcheff : The Gardens of Love

a setting of English poems for solo violin and narrator

Commissioned for the inaugural English Music Festival, South Africa

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Richard Pantcheff : Introduction and Allegro No.1

for solo violin and solo violoncello

For Miro Chakaryan and Wessel Beukes and premiered by them at the Rand Club Chamber Music Series

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Richard Pantcheff : Introduction and Allegro No.2

for two violins

For Zanta Hofmeyr and Miro Chakaryan. Premiered by them at The Theatre on the Square, Sandton, Johannesburg

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Richard Pantcheff : Introduction and Allegro No.3

for piano trio

Commissioned by The Lee Trio, Premiered by them at the Musikhochschule, Leipzig

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Richard Pantcheff : Missa Brevis (Opus 83B – Latin Edition)

for SATB choir and organ

Commissioned (English edition) for the Choir of St George’s Anglican Church, Johannesburg

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Richard Pantcheff : Missa Magdalenensis

for SATB choir and organ

Commissioned for the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford

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Richard Pantcheff : Mass of St. George

for unison voices and organ

Commissioned for the Choir of St George’s Anglican Church, Johannesburg

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Richard Pantcheff : Psalm 91 – ‘Qui habitat’

for SATB choir and organ

Commissioned by Josef Langermann

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Richard Pantcheff : Suite for Organ

for solo organ

Commissioned for Clive Driskill-Smith. Premiered by him in the Leeds International Concert Series

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Richard Pantcheff : Spirit of Mercy

for SATB choir and organ

Premiered by the Chamber Choir of South Africa, at St. Francis’ Anglican Church, Johannesburg

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Richard Pantcheff : Sonata for Viola and Piano

‘Chorale’ Sonata

Opus 61. Premiered in the version for Cello and Piano at the Rand Club Chamber Music Series by Susan Mouton and Annalien Ball,

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Richard Pantcheff : Twelve Anglo-Saxon Sentences

for solo voices and organ

Commissioned for the St George’s Chamber Choir, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Richard Pantcheff : Te Deum Laudamus

for ATB choir with organ

Commissioned by the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

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Richard Pantcheff : Two Short Pieces for Organ

for solo organ

Premiered by Alexander Eadon on the organ of St. Saviour’s Church, Eastbourne

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Richard Pantcheff : The ‘Salisbury’ Responses

for SSS choir unaccompanied

Commissioned for the Girls’ Choir of Salisbury Cathedral.

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Richard Pantcheff : The ‘Whitchurch’ Evening Canticles

for SATB choir and organ

Commissioned for the Choir of All Hallows Church, Whitchurch, Hampshire

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Richard Pantcheff : What shall we offer Thee?

for SATB choir and piano

Premiered at the Wakkerstroom Music Festival, South Africa, by Vocal Scholars from the Royal Academy of Music, London.

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Camden Reeves

Camden Reeves : Nocturnes

for solo piano

Five movements conjuring a sequence of images inspired by all things nocturnal. Contrasting, but with points of unity and a cyclical form of a singular narrative.

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