Chamber & Ensemble Music
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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Joe Cutler: Bartlebooth
Robin Michael, BBC Concert Orchestra, Charles Hazlewood, Sarah Leonard, Mary Dullea, Orkest de Ereprijs
Joe Cutler's first album, featuring chamber music performed by the Fidelio Trio, song cycle 'In Prai...
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James Dillon: the soadie waste
Following her acclaimed recording of Dillon's Book of Elements, Noriko Kawai returns to NMC w...
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Bulb: Irish Piano Trios
The Fidelio Trio - brilliant young soloists in their own right - bring the medium of piano trio back...
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Howard Skempton: Ben Somewhen
Howard Skempton’s first full-length disc for NMC - following the best-selling single Lento - is Be...
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Gary Carpenter: Die Flimmerkiste
Gary Carpenter’s witty and dramatic writing style has featured in numerous films and TV programmes...
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Simon Bainbridge: Ad ora incerta
Bainbridge's Grawemeyer Award-winning Ad ora incerta (At an uncertain hour), is a deeply-felt sympho...
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Richard Barrett: transmission
Richard Barrett's transmission features solo works written for members of leading contemporary ensem...
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Gerald Barry: Chamber Music
Barry's work draws inspiration from the clarity and vigour of Baroque music and the immediacy of con...
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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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Rupert Bawden: The Sailor's Tale
This introduction to the music of Rupert Bawden features his chamber opera The Sailor's Tale - a cou...
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Harrison Birtwistle: Ritual Fragment
This disc couples two major works composed in the 1970s, Melencolia I and Meridian, a setting of lov...
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Britten on Film
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Simon Russell Beale, Mary Carewe, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Choir of King Edward's School, Martyn Brabbins
Britten's classic 1930s film scores, Download album includes exclusive track!
This disc bring...
This disc bring...
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Martin Butler: American Rounds
William Howard and the Schubert Ensemble in Martin Butler's piano quintet 'American Rounds', and oth...
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Philip Cashian: Dark Inventions
The title work, which sets a sinous alto flute melody against a background of tuned percussion, is j...
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Lyell Cresswell: Anake
Lyell Cresswell's music blends a background of western classical music with the Maori heritage of hi...
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Chris Dench: ik[s]land(s)
Chris Dench's wide-ranging extra-musical influences - from Angela Carter and Ludwig Wittgenstein to ...
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Michael Finnissy: Mars+Venus
The title piece of this striking collection explores the ideas of love and war present in everyone, ...
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Anthony Gilbert: Dream Carousels
Both Anthony Gilbert's brilliant woodwind writing and his long association with the Royal Northern C...
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Anthony Gilbert & Bill Hopkins
The enigmatic and intensely charged music of Bill Hopkins reflects the avant-garde sound-world of th...
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Sadie Harrison: An Unexpected Light
Sadie Harrison's lyrical blend of folk music from Lithuania, the Northern Caucasus and the Near East...
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Simon Holt: Boots of Lead
NMC's second disc devoted to the music of Simon Holt brings together one of his earliest major works...
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Simon Holt: … era madrugada
Simon Holt is one of Britain's most compelling compositional voices, and this disc showcases his ear...
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John Lambert: Portrait
This introduction to Lambert's music demonstrates his highly personal and quirky style combined a st...
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David Lumsdaine: Aria for Edward John Eyre
Aria for Edward John Eyre uses a siren-like solo soprano, narrators and ensemble to recreate the tal...
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Elisabeth Lutyens
A tribute to this radical and influential composer in the centenary of her birth, this CD presents a...
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Elisabeth Lutyens: Chamber Concerto
A retrospective of Lutyens' output which includes works ranging from the terse economy of the Chambe...
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Colin Matthews: The Great Journey
Matthews's The Great Journey, a forceful and panoramic narrative of a 16th-century Spanish expeditio...
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Melinda Maxwell: Elegy
The renowned oboist is heard in this sequence: from the dignified simplicity of her own Elegy, to th...
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Anthony Payne: The Stones and Lonely Places S...
A second disc of Anthony Payne's evocative vocal and chamber works, written for and featuring acclai...
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Anthony Payne: A Day in the Life of a Mayfly
A disc that reveals the highly individual voice of Anthony Payne's chamber music, from the ethereal ...
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David Sawer: From Morning to Midnight
The first full-length disc from highly-acclaimed young composer David Sawer, featuring scintillating...
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Robert Saxton: A Yardstick to the Stars
Glittering piano quintet A Yardstick to the Stars explores the notions of time, distance and planeta...
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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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Roger Smalley: Poles Apart
The acclaimed Continuum Ensemble and pianist Douglas Finch in a selection of Roger Smalley's recent ...
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Remembering Tippett: Recordings from the 1940...
To mark the centenary of Tippett's birth in 2005, this disc presents for the first time on CD three ...
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Mark-Anthony Turnage: On All Fours
Four imaginative and evocative works by this now well-known contemporary figure: On All Fours and Re...
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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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John Woolrich: Lending Wings
A disc that reveals the striking diversity of Woolrich's chamber music: The intimacy of A Farewell c...
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A Roaring Flame
A disc showcasing new works for double bass, solo and with voice or cello: from the title work, Dill...
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a white room
Commissions for young and amateur musicians from The Schubert Ensemble's Chamber Music 2000 project
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Bingham String Quartet: Butler, Cashian, Nich...
Commissioned by the Bingham String Quartet, Cashian's intricate rhythmic patterning contrasts with B...
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Bright Future
Following on from a white room, Bright Future features more works from Chamber Music 2000 project, w...
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Independence Quadrilles: Barry, Clarke & Finn...
Trio Fibonacci's debut on NMC also sees the first appearance on the label of James Clarke, whose Pia...
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Jane Manning, soprano
A celebration of the unique contribution to contemporary music of this outstanding artist who, over ...
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Live from State of the Nation 2001
New works by 10 young composers recorded live at State of the Nation 2001
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Lucifer: Music by Nicholas Sackman, Diana Bur...
These three works were all commissioned by pianist Philip Mead to play with the Royal Northern Colle...
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Mary Wiegold's Songbook
14 short songs by leading British composers - ranging from Harrison Birtwistle to Michael Nyman - dr...
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The Hoxton 13
New works by 13 young composers from Hoxton New Music Days
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