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Oliver Knussen: Autumnal; Choral; Violin Concerto; Requiem; Songs for Sue / Leila Josefowicz, violin; Alexandra Wood; Huw Watkins; Claire Booth

1 CD / NMC Classics / 2012-11-13

Works: Oliver Knussen: Choral, for band; Autumnal, for violin & piano (Triptych, Part 1); Whitman Settings, for voice & piano, Op. 25; Secret Psalm, for violin; Prayer Bell Sketch, for piano, Op.29; Concert...
Performers: Booth, Claire; Josefowicz, Leila; Knussen, Oliver; Watkins, Huw; Wigglesworth, Ryan; Wood, Alexandra
Conductors: Knussen, Oliver; Wigglesworth, Ryan
Ensemble: ; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Technophonia brings together cutting edge music interfaces used by Drake Music Scotland, the nation's leading arts organization providing music-making opportunities for people with disabilities. Olive...continue...

Tansy Davies: Spine / Samuel Boden, Joby Burgess, Simon Haram, Darragh Morgan, Huw Watkins

1 CD / NMC Classics / 2012-09-25

Works: Tansy Davies: Iris, concerto for saxophone & 15 instruments; Static, for voice & piano; Dark Ground, for solo percussion; Loure, for solo violin; Falling Angel, for 17 instruments; This Love, for voi...
Performers: Boden, Samuel; Burgess, Joby; Haram, Simon; Morgan, Darragh; Watkins, Huw
Conductors: Austin, Christopher;
Ensemble: Azalea Ensemble; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; Concordia (Viol Consort)

This new recording includes make black white, a reconstruction of Dowland's Flow, My Tears performed by viol consort Concordia; the ritualistic Dark Ground for percussion...continue...

Alexander Goehr: Colossos or Panic; The Deluge; etc. / Hilary Summers, Clair Booth

1 CD / NMC Classics / 2012-05-29

Works: Alexander Goehr: Colossos or Panic, for orchestra; The Deluge, cantata for 2 voices & orchestra, Op. 7; Little Symphony, Op. 15
Performers: Booth, Claire
Conductors: Knussen, Oliver
Ensemble: ASKO Ensemble; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; Schoenberg Ensemble

To celebrate Alexander Goehr's 80th birthday this year, BBC Radio 3 commissioned a new orchestral work which was premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra on...continue...
Recording information: CBSO Centre, Birmingham (01/31/2010); Grote Zaal, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (01/31/2010); Studio 1, BBC Maida Vale, London, England (01/31/2010); CBSO Centre, Birmingham (04/22/2...continue...

Ades: Anthology / Piano Quintet; Living Toys; Violin Concerto; Chamber Sym., et al.

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-10-18

Works: Thomas Adès: Powder Her Face, concert paraphrase for piano; Mazurkas (3) for piano; Arcadiana, for string quartet, Op. 12; Piano Quintet; Chamber Symphony, Op. 2; Living Toys, for chamber orches...
Performers: Adès, Thomas [Conductor/Composer]; Bickley, Susan; Marwood, Anthony
Conductors: Adès, Thomas; Stenz, Markus
Ensemble: ; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Thomas Adès has come a long way since his early days as a wunderkind of the classical new music scene. Now turning 40 this year,...continue...

British Composers: A Celebration / EMI

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-05-03

Works: Edward Elgar: Wand of Youth Suite no 1, Op. 1a no 4; Symphony no 1 in A flat, Op. 55; Ave Maria, Op. 2 no 2; Quartet for Strings in E minor, Op. 83; Ave verum corpus, Op. 2 no 1; Falstaff; Dream Chil...
Performers: Allen, Thomas; Andrew Davis [Conductor/Organ]; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Bowen, John; Bramma, Harry; Brown, Wilfred; Dilkes, Neville; Donohoe, Pete...
Conductors: Collingwood, Lawrance; Willcocks, David; Boult, Adrian; Walton, William; Harding, Daniel; Robinson, Christopher; Wordsworth, Barry; Finzi, Christopher; Bliss, Sir Arthur; Goodall, Reginald; Davies, M...
Ensemble: ; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; Britten String Quartet; London Music Group; The Band of the Royal Military School of Music Kne

Taking a panoramic view of British music between the ends of the 19th and 20th centuries, this fascinating collection features some 30 composers. From the...continue...

Poul Ruders: Four Dances

1 CD / Dacapo / 2009-11-17

Works: Poul Ruders: Four Dances in One Movement; Nightshade, for 10 instruments; Abysm, tone poem for orchestra
Conductors: Knussen, Oliver
Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

On this disc three of Ruders's pivotal chamber works are in the hands of one of Europe's leading new music ensembles Birmingham Contemporary Music Group....continue...
Recording information: CBSO Centre, Birmingham, England....continue...

British Music / Sir Simon Rattle

11 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-10-20

Works: Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations; Grania and Diarmid, Op. 42; Falstaff, symphonic study for orchestra in C minor, Op. 68; Concerto for Violin in B minor, Op. 61; The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38; Pomp a...
Performers: Allen, Thomas; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Bream, Julian [Guitar]; Elms, Roderick; Hampson, Thomas; Harrell, Lynn; Heinen, Ulrich; Kennedy, Nigel [Violin]; Mitchinson, John; Shirley-Qui...
Conductors: Rattle, Simon, Sir; Halsey, Simon;
Ensemble: Berliner Philharmoniker; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Members of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchest

This new 11CD box set in the Simon Rattle Edition contains many favorites from the English repertory including Elgar's Engma Variations and Violin Concerto, Walton's...continue...

Howard Skempton: Ben Somewhen - Choral & Chamber Music

1 CD / NM Classics Import / 2007-09-04

Works: Howard Skempton: Chamber Concerto, for 15 players; Quintet for Clarinet and Strings; The Voice of the Spirits, for choir; The Bridge of Fire, for choir; Suite from Delicate, for 2 cellos & percussion...
Performers: Heinen, Ulrich; Jenkinson, Richard; Warburton, Julian
Conductors:
Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Skempton: Ben Somewhere, etc / Weeks, et al

1 CD / NMC Classics / 2007-09-03

Works: Howard Skempton: Ben Somewhere
Conductors: Weeks, James D.E.
Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; EXAUDI

This disc contrasts Skempton's choral works - including the dancing, evocative setting of Shelley's The Voice of the Spirits and the spiritual Rise up, my...continue...

David Sawer: From Morning to Midnight

1 CD / NM Classics Import / 2007-02-13

Works: David Sawer: Tiroirs, for chamber orchestra; From Morning to Midnight, symphonic suite; The Memory of Water, for 2 violins & string orchestra; The Greatest Happiness Principle, for orchestra
Performers: Blendis, Simon; Wood, Alexandra
Conductors: Mälkki, Susanna; Brabbins, Martyn
Ensemble: ; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

BBC Music Magazine
This is flintily expressionistic music, needle-sharp in texture, superbly scored, and powerfully Projected in this BBC performance by Martyn Brabbins, who conducted the...continue...

J. Anderson: Book of Hours, Symphony, etc / Oramo, Knussen

1 CD / NMC Classics / 2006-11-04

Works: Julian Anderson: Eden; Imagin'd Corners; American Choruses (4); Symphony; Book of Hours
Conductors: Brabbins, Martyn; Oramo, Sakari; Halsey, Simon; Knussen, Oliver
Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus

"This, the magnificent follow-up to the recent Ondine Julian Anderson disc (9/06), contains the five works he wrote for Birmingham forces during his years as...continue...

Stuart MacRae: Violin Concerto, etc / Tetzlaff, Volkov

1 CD / NMC Classics / 2006-10-07

Works: Stuart MacRae: Concerto for Violin; Scenes (2) from the Death of Count Ugolino; Motus; Stirling Choruses
Performers: Lixenberg, Lore; Tetzlaff, Christian
Conductors: Volkov, Ilan; Mälkki, Susanna
Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

NMC is proud to announce the release of the first disc devoted to the music of the acclaimed young Scottish composer Stuart MacRae, born in...continue...

Stuart MacRae; Violin Concerto; Two Scenes from the Death of Ugolino; Motus etc.

1 CD / NM Classics Import / 2006-09-11

Works: Stuart MacRae: Concerto for Violin; Scenes (2) from the Death of Count Ugolino, for voice & orchestra; Motus, for violin, cello, clarinet, oboe, piano & harp; Stirling Choruses, for wind ensemble
Performers: Lixenberg, Loré; Tetzlaff, Christian [Violin]
Conductors: Volkov, Ilan; Mälkki, Susanna
Ensemble: ; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

BBC Music Magazine
The premiere of Stuart MacRae's Violin Concerto at the 2001 Proms cemented his reputation and transformed him at the age of 25 from...continue...

Holt: Boots of Lead, Feet of Clay, etc / Rattle, Brabbins

1 CD / NMC Classics / 2005-01-06

Works: Simon Holt: Kites, for chamber ensemble; Feet of Clay, for solo cello; eco-pavan, for piano & ensemble; Boots of Lead, for mezzo-soprano & ensemble; Lilith
Performers: Barnell, Andrew; Bradley, Christopher; Cookhorn, Margaret; Ellis, James; Heard, Robert; Heinen, Ulrich; Hind, Rolf; Johnston, Robert; Leaver, Richard; Lilley, Colin; Limbrick, Simon; Manasse, Robert;...
Conductors: Brabbins, Martyn; Rattle, Simon, Sir
Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Lang: The passing measures

1 CD / Canteloupe / 2001-04-01

Works: David Lang: The Passing Measures
Performers: Ehrlich, Marty
Conductors: Herbert, Paul
Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus