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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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Jonathan Harvey: Body Mandala
Jonathan Harvey's electrifying Body Mandala and other new works for the BBC Scottish SO, plus...
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Judith Weir: The Welcome Arrival of Rain
Judith Weir's major orchestral works. including Natural History, Forest and The Wel...
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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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Roger Marsh: Pierrot Lunaire
Roger Marsh's re-imagining of Albert Giraud's surreal masterpiece sets the complete 'Pierrot Lunaire...
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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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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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Benjamin Britten: Les Illuminations
Three recordings from 1941, publicly available for the first time following transfer from the origin...
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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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Julian Anderson: Book of Hours
Book of Hours combines ensemble and live electronics in a tribute to the glories of late medieval ar...
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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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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: Vanity
A complex and intense score inspired by the 17th-century tradition of still-life 'vanitas' painting,...
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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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David Bedford: Twelve Hours of Sunset
The haunting and atmospheric title work - inspired by a Roy Harper lyric - is accompanied by the cel...
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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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Martin Butler: O Rio
This orchestral double-bill from Martin Butler features the glittering showpiece Fixed Doubles, insp...
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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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Gordon Crosse: Cello Concerto
Memories of Morning: Night sets passages from Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea - the story of Jane Eyre...
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James Dillon: East 11th St NY 10003
These three major works by one of Britain's most respected composers explore the effects of shifting...
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Edward Elgar: Sketches for Symphony No.3
Elgar's complete sketches for the Third Symphony, exactly as the composer left them, are brought to ...
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Elgar/ Payne: Symphony No.3
Elgar's Third Symphony brought to life
Elgar died in 1934 leaving behind the sketches for a 4-m...
Elgar died in 1934 leaving behind the sketches for a 4-m...
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Brian Elias: Laments
Mary King, Martyn Brabbins, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, BBC Singers, Tadaaki Otaka, BBC Symphony Orchestra
Elias's acclaimed settings of the anguished poetry of exiled Russian author Irina Ratushinskaya are ...
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Michael Finnissy: Red Earth
Red Earth reflects the parched landscape of the Central Australian Desert through a haze of string w...
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Anthony Gilbert: On Beholding a Rainbow
Gilbert's entrancing violin concerto, On Beholding a Rainbow, is performed by rising stars Anthony M...
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Alexander Goehr: Piano Concerto
Two vital orchestral works by this key figure of the celebrated 'Manchester School' of post-war Brit...
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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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Barry Guy: After the Rain
After the Rain, for string orchestra, draws on Max Ernst's disturbing painting Europe After the Rain...
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Jonathan Harvey: Bhakti
A mystical exploration of the Sanskrit Hymns of the Rig Veda for chamber ensemble and quadrophonic t...
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Robin Holloway: Concerto No.2 for Orchestra
Holloway's Second Concerto for Orchestra displays the composer at his most thrilling and eclectic. I...
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Robin Holloway: Third Concerto for Orchestra
Holloway's richly-layered and steamily impressionistic Third Concerto for Orchestra is an exotic mus...
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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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Vic Hoyland: In Transit
Vic Hoyland's energetic and forceful work, In transit, pitches massive orchestral forces against eac...
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Minna Keal: Cello Concerto
Two works, separated by 60 years, from one of the most remarkable figures in British composition of ...
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Jonathan Lloyd: Symphony No.4
Lloyd's Symphony No.4 is a one-movement orchestral riot, the product of a truly eclectic imagination...
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Stuart MacRae: Violin Concerto
Christian Tetzlaff, Ilan Volkov, Lore Lixenberg, BCMG, Susanna Malkki, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Stuart MacRae's Violin Concerto, commissioned for the 2001 BBC Proms, is performed here by soloist C...
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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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David Matthews: In the Dark Time
Two richly dramatic orchestral scores are presented on this disc. In the Dark Time takes its title f...
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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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Dominic Muldowney: Oboe Concerto
Subtitled 'a song cycle for oboe and orchestra', the Oboe Concerto displays Muldowney at his most ly...
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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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Peter Paul Nash: Apollinaire Choruses
Peter Paul Nash's complex, multi-layered Symphony No.1 was inspired by newspaper reports of atrociti...
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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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Andrzej Panufnik: Cello Concerto
Panufnik's last work, the Concerto contrasts an intensely contemplative Adagio with a powerful dance...
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Anthony Payne: Time's Arrow
An evocation of the Big Bang, the music of Time's Arrow traces the expansion and contraction of the ...
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Edwin Roxburgh: Saturn
Roxburgh's Clarinet Concerto features soloist Linda Merrick in a work of symphonic scope and express...
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Nicholas Sackman: Hawthorn
The first in NMC's series of BBC Proms commissions, Nicholas Sackman's Hawthorn is characterised by ...
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David Sawer: Byrnan Wood
Byrnan Wood was inspired by Shakespeare's famous peripatetic forest in Macbeth; it explores the poss...
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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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Howard Skempton: Lento
Lento is music of extraordinary directness and simplicity. It is an enigmatic and hypnotic work with...
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Roger Smalley: Pulses for 5x4 Players
Rampant antiphonal brass and percussion characterise Smalley's Pulses for 5x4 Players – a huge and...
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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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Hugh Wood: Ancora
Hugh Wood's Cello Concerto, concentrated into a single movement, is full of vigorous and dramatic or...
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Hugh Wood: Symphony
Hugh Wood's Symphony is his most ambitious work to date: its four movements refer to musical sources...
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James Wood: Two Men Meet
Three works that reflect the exotic and sensuous geometry of Wood's output: the energetic and irides...
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John Woolrich: The Ghost in the Machine
Four substantial orchestral works by John Woolrich: The Barber's Timepiece, inspired by a short stor...
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Love from a Stranger: Four Classic Film Score...
Britten's early score for Agatha Christie thriller Love From a Stranger is coupled with scores by Ro...
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NMC Revisited: Skempton, Muldowney, Guy
An encore for three cult works...
An encore for three cult works previously issued as singles o...
An encore for three cult works previously issued as singles o...
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Themes & Variations
3 sets of variations - two previously unrecorded - with contributions from 19 British composers rang...
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