Browse: Aurora Orchestra (orchestra)
This page lists all recordings performed by Aurora Orchestra.
-
Thoughtfully constructed and stylistically wide-ranging, the album opens with Meredith Monk’s miniature, poignant Early Morning Melody, followed by Dappled Light, a sonorous, rippling new work... — More…
CD
$15.00Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Rutter: Visions & Requiem
The Cambridge Singers, Kerson Leong (violin), The Temple Church Boys' Choir
Aurora Orchestra, John Rutter
The tone of Visions is often lingeringly elegiac, and may well surprise those who associate Rutter primarily with facile tunefulness and chirpy carols…the recording [of the Requiem] has greater... — More…
CD
$17.25Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Road Trip: Aurora Orchestra
RecommendedDawn Landes (vocal & guitar), Sam Amidon (vocals & guitar)
Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Adams's Chamber Symphony, inspired equally by Schoenberg and cartoon scores, is taken at a cracking pace, even faster than the composer's own...[Appalachian Spring] is given a lovely performance,... — More…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, Orchestral Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Offer,
Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi Amy Dickson (saxophones), Thomas Gould (violin), Tom Poster (piano) & Nicolas Fleury (French horn).
Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
There are lissom performances of Finzi’s pastoral miniatures Prelude, Romance and A Severn Rhapsody, and conductor Nicholas Collon shapes the Three Soliloquies from Love’s Labour’s Lost with... — More…
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Anna Meredith: Triptotage Miniatures; Colin Matthews: Postludes; Alexander Goehr: After The Waking
Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Daniel, Britten Sinfonia, Nash Ensemble, Martyn Brabbins
Meredith’s style doesn’t fit into a particular category…Aurora Orchestra expertly handles the cross-rhythms and changing time signatures…[Goehr’s] Schoenbergian melodic language is beautifully... — More…
Awards:
-
The Times Records of the Year, 2020
CD
$16.75Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Martin Suckling: The Tuning
Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Christopher Glynn (piano), Jamie Campbell, Sébastien van Kuijk, Frances Leviston
Aurora Orchestra, Martin Suckling
Following the NMC release of Suckling’s orchestral music last year, this beautifully played and recorded disc shows his more intimate side. The Tuning sets five poems by Michael Donaghy, which... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Contemporary
CD
$23.25Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Music of the Spheres
Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Sam Swallow (vocalist)
Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Adès's appropriately stratospheric writing is despatched with fearless aplomb by Pekka Kuusisto. The main attractions, though, are an electric Jupiter Symphony (played from memory, and it shows... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Augusta Read Thomas: Of Being is a Bird
Nathan Giem (violin), Claire Booth (soprano), Nathan Cole (violin), Nicola Melville (piano)
Parker Quartet, Third Coast Percussion & Spektral Quartet, Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Irresistible forward drive, pausing only for moments of radiant beauty. — More…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, Chamber Choice
CD
$15.00Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
The colours in the haunting, spare accompaniment [of 'Umzi Watsha'] are conveyed with expert precision by the versatile Aurora Orchestra conducted by Iaian Farrington, who should also be congratulated... — More…
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
This is the day
Music on royal occasions
Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano)
Aurora Orchestra & Cambridge Singers, John Rutter
Elin Manahan Thomas is impressive with her poise and limpidity...The Cambridge Singers, outstandingly fresh and communicative throughout under John Rutter's expert, energising direction, excel... — More…
CD
$17.25Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3?
