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Colin Matthews: Divertimento
Divertimenti Ensemble, Oliver Knussen, Schubert Ensemble, Melinda Maxwell, Haffner Wind Ensemble, Brindisi Quartet
Colin Matthews: Chamber works (NMC D149 – Ancora Series)
Oboe Quartet No.1, String Quartet No.2,...
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John Casken: Golem/ Ancora
John Casken's powerfully moving opera Golem, winner of the first Britten Award for Composition, is r...
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Judith Weir: Blond Eckbert/ Ancora
Blond Eckbert, Judith Weir's first opera, is based on Ludwig Tieck's folk-like tale of a quiet elder...
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Michael Tippett: Symphonies 2 & 4
One of two releases to mark the centenary of Michael Tippett in 2005, this disc was the composer's l...
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Harrison Birtwistle: Punch & Judy
Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Jan DeGaetani, Philip Langridge, Stephen Roberts, David Wilson-Johnson, John Tomlinson, London Sinfonietta, David Atherton
An Ancora reissue of the acclaimed recording by the London Sinfonietta under David Atherton, with so...
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David Blake: Ancora - Violin Concerto
To mark David Blake’s 70th birthday, NMC re-issues his Violin Concerto, performed by Iona Brown wi...
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Simon Bainbridge: Ancora
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Composers Ensemble, Simon Bainbridge, Walter Trampler, London Sinfonietta, Michael Tilson Thomas
This Ancora reissue features Simon Bainbridge's Viola Concerto - commissioned by soloist Walter Tram...
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Harrison Birtwistle: Ancora
The Triumph of Time is one of Birtwistle's most memorable images in sound: an immensely slow and bal...
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John Buller: Ancora
Buller's dramatic score Proença sets the lyrics of Troubadour songs for orchestra and two soloists:...
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John Casken: Cello Concerto/ Ancora
Casken's lyrical Cello Concerto is coupled with Maharal Dreaming, a vivid orchestral fantasy derived...
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Alexander Goehr: Sing Ariel/ Ancora
Sing, Ariel sets a patchwork of texts, ranging from Milton to Wallace Stevens, for 3 solo sopranos; ...
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Alexander Goehr: Romanza/ Ancora
Goehr's neo-classical works - Bach tribute ...a musical offering (JSB 1985)... and Sinfonia - plus t...
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Robin Holloway: Ancora
Holloway's rhapsodic, romantic Violin Concerto was inspired both by the Tiffany stained glass of a N...
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Colin Matthews: Machines & Dreams/ Ancora
Alexander Baillie, London Sinfonietta, Michael Tilson Thomas, John Carewe, London Symphony Orchestra
This 2-disc Ancora reissue brings together Alexander Baillie's impassioned recording of Matthews' Ce...
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David Matthews: Ancora
Cantiga sets the tragic, bloodthirsty story of the 14th-century Spanish noblewoman Inês de Castro; ...
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Nicholas Maw/ Richard Rodney Bennett: Ancora
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, Jane Manning, Bach Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks
Life Studies, written for the virtuoso players of The Academy of St Martin-in-the Fields (the perfor...
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Thea Musgrave: Ancora
Nicholas Daniel, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen, Nicholas Kraemer
The first release in NMC's Ancora series features reissued recordings of oboe concerto Helios plus t...
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Nigel Osborne: Ancora
While I Am Goya, The Sickle and Remembering Esenin share a common inspiration in Russian poetry of t...
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Robert Saxton: Caritas/ Ancora
Robert Saxton's opera Caritas - based on Arnold Wesker's drama about a walled-up anchoress of the 13...
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Robert Simpson: Symphony No.3/ Ancora
Robert Simpson's Symphony No 3 is dedicated to his friend and fellow composer Havergal Brian. A work...
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Judith Weir: Piano Concerto/ Ancora
Judith Weir's own choice of her chamber music featuring piano explore Weir's fascination with folk m...
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Hugh Wood: Ancora
Hugh Wood's Cello Concerto, concentrated into a single movement, is full of vigorous and dramatic or...
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