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Mar 17, 2023 - 3:35 AM
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Amer Zahid
(Member)
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Signature - Live in Concert
Debbie Wiseman
SILCD1725
June 30, 2023
Debbie Wiseman OBE conducts City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, performing her most loved music compositions.
Enjoying a long-standing association with Silva Screen Records, Signature is Debbie’s ninth album on the label, following high-profile popular releases such as A Poet In New York, Wolf Hall and Dickensian. With this album, Debbie Wiseman celebrates her 60th Birthday and her long distinguished artistic career in the world of TV, film and concert music. The concert will be broadcast on Classic FM.
Debbie says: “To have the opportunity of conducting the CBSO with some of my favourite music and scores composed for film, TV, royalty, Classic FM and special occasions is the best birthday gift I could ever imagine. I have long admired the CBSO – their orchestral sound is naturally glorious, rich and dramatic, and to be able to collaborate with this world-class orchestra on this live album is a dream come true. I truly feel as though all my birthdays have come at once!
Signature features a selection of Debbie Wiseman’s most popular pieces with new orchestral arrangements specially created for the prestigious CBSO. The orchestra is also conducted by the composer herself, making the event even more memorable for both the composer and CBSO, as well as Debbie’s faithful fans. Other highlights from the album include ‘Wolf Hall’, ‘A Lustre To This Day’ (originally written for the acclaimed British cellist Steven Isserlis) and ‘Elizabeth Remembered’ (music featured on the BBC’s coverage of the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II).
Tracklist
1. Buckingham Palace March (from the Queen’s 90th birthday celebration)
2. Water Lily (from The Glorious Garden)
3. Myrtle (from the Glorious Garden)
4. Wolf Hall Concert suite
5. Father Brown Concert suite
6. A Lustre To This Day (the piece for solo cello and orchestra written originally for Steven Isserlis for Classic FM)
7. Wilde Concert suite
8. Elizabeth II (from the Queen’s 90th Birthday celebration
9. The Traveller (aka “Den Reisende”, signature music composed for Viking)
10. Tom’s Midnight Garden concert suite
11. Jubilee Gigue (orchestral version of the original composed for the Diamond Jubilee River Pageant)
12. Elizabeth Remembered (composed for the BBC’s coverage of the 10 days of National mourning following the Queen’s passing)
13. Onwards (new music for Viking composed to celebrate their 25th anniversary and the 80th birthday of their chairman Torstein Hagen)
14. Salute (composed for the opening of the Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre)
https://silvascreen.ochre.store/release/372417-debbie-wiseman-signature-live-in-concert
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Hmmm, chin rub, chin rub.
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This is excellent news, you can never have enough Wiseman!
Hmmm, interesting it's gettting a CD release. As far as I can tell, their previous Wiseman concert album ("Debbie Wiseman Live at the Barbican"....which seems to have oh maybe 40% overlap with this) was only ever released digitally.
The Live at the Barbican album is fantastic and I was always disappointed that it never got a CD release, so I have no issue whatsoever with the crossover here. Can't wait to get my hands on this new release, roll on June!
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Is there clapping and/or audience noise on this recording?
Just from the one person who turned up! Boom, boom!
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Jul 18, 2023 - 5:11 PM
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RonBurbella
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I'm a Debbie Wiseman fan and completist, so it was inevitable that I would like this concert CD. Like most recorded live concerts, it's not perfect. But it is a good live concert performance, for what it's worth. And it was well worth having Silva issue this CD.
The live audience did appreciate each performance, but I didn't like the applause after each selection. I know, I know...
it's a live performance and the audience had a good time and wanted to show their appreciation.
But, not having been there, maybe the day the CD arrived I was just not in a mood to hear their applause 14 times.
As an audio alternative, I've already scanned the CD into Sound Forge and separately digitally edited out
the applause efforts and digitally faded out the music as appropriate to as much as possible give the concert
the audio likeness of a studio concert.
So I can play it either way and have my cake and eat it, too, depending on my mood.
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Ron Burbella
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