Vocal Music
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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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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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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Roger Marsh: Pierrot Lunaire
Roger Marsh's re-imagining of Albert Giraud's surreal masterpiece sets the complete 'Pierrot Lunaire...
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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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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!
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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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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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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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John Buller: Ancora
Buller's dramatic score Proença sets the lyrics of Troubadour songs for orchestra and two soloists:...
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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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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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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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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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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: Sing Ariel/ Ancora
Sing, Ariel sets a patchwork of texts, ranging from Milton to Wallace Stevens, for 3 solo sopranos; ...
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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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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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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: Chamber Concerto
A retrospective of Lutyens' output which includes works ranging from the terse economy of the Chambe...
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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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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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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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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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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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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: Lending Wings
A disc that reveals the striking diversity of Woolrich's chamber music: The intimacy of A Farewell c...
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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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Mary Wiegold's Songbook
14 short songs by leading British composers - ranging from Harrison Birtwistle to Michael Nyman - dr...
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