Joe Cutler: Portrait disc (NMC D134) PRE-ORDER NOW
Edward Rushton: The Shops (NMC D146) PRE-ORDER NOW

June's release provides a snapshot of new music at the beginning of the twenty-first century with debut CDs by two outstanding young British composers.

Robin Michael, BBC Concert Orchestra, Charles Hazlewood, Sarah Leonard, Mary Dullea, Orkest de Ereprijs

Joe Cutler: Bartlebooth

The Opera Group, Patrick Bailey

Edward Rushton: The Shops

The Aeolian Company: Original compositions and arrangements for pianola by J S Bach, Arnold Bax, Sir F.H. Cowen, Percy Grainger, Eugene Goossens, Herbert Howells, Maurice Ravel, Alfredo Casella, Hubert Parry and Igor Stravinsky
REX LAWSON pianolist

‘An evening with Rex Lawson, king of the British pianola, is always interesting, often fascinating, never less than fun’ Financial Times

In concert halls and recording studios throughout the world, Rex Lawson's name is synonymous with the pianola; not the brash, mechanical variety found in cowboy films and backstreet bars, but rather the original pianola, a sophisticated instrument which responds well to serious study, and which fits in front of the keyboard of any normal concert grand, playing it by means of a set of felt-covered wooden fingers.

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Rex Lawson

The Aeolian Company: Original Compositions and Arrangements for Pianola

Works from Jonathan Harvey’s highly successful residency with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, exploring the composer's fascination with Eastern philosophies - from the ecstatic Indian text of White as Jasmine, meditative Tranquil Abiding and ...towards a Pure Land, to the raucous Tibetan brass and percussion of Body Mandala. The disc is completed by Timepieces, Harvey's early work for orchestra with two conductors.

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Anu Komsi, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov, Stefan Solyom

Jonathan Harvey: Body Mandala