To mark Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s 75th birthday NMC issue the long-awaited release of his seminal opera, Taverner. This release is of the landmark 1997 BBC recording featuring an astonishing line up of the cream of British contemporary music interpreters
Taverner - Martyn Hill / Jester - David Wilson-Johnson / Henry VIII - Stephen Richardson / Virgin Mary - Fiona Kimm / Priest/God - Michael Chance
On Memory / Far Away / High Ground / Crystal Clear / Laid Bare / Touch
Andrew Zolinsky, piano
Les Illuminations / Rondo Concertante / In memoriam Dennis Brain / Untitled Fragment / Variations for Solo Piano / Movements for a Clarinet Concerto
Sandrine Piau, soprano / Michael Collins, clarinet / Rolf Hind, piano / Richard Watkins, horn / Michael Thompson, horn / Northern Sinfonia - Thomas Zehetmair
Tristia (Six lyric pieces for violin and piano) / Croquis (String Trio)
Peter Sheppard-Skaerved, violin / Morgan Goff, viola / Neil Heyde, cello / Aaron Shorr, piano
A survey of Simon Holt's piano music recorded by Rolf Hind - for whom Nigredo was composed - dedicated to Holt's publisher (and NMC's former chairman) Bill Colleran; it covers the Goya-inspired Tauromaquia, Black Lanterns, title work a book of colours, and new series Klop's Last Bite - described by the composer as 'an insect snuff-movie'
Rolf Hind, piano
This disc brings together three powerful perfomances recorded live at the BBC Proms: the dramatic Turbulent Landscapes, inspired by Turner's seascapes; Songs for a Winter's Evening, setting Robert Burns' poems of a young woman's life and loves, with soloist Lisa Milne; and the double concerto Two's Company, composed for percussionist Evelyn Glennie and oboist Nicholas Daniel
Songs commissioned for the 20th Anniversary of NMC. Nearly 100 composers, ranging from the country’s most highly regarded figures to the younger generation of emerging talents, have each written a song on the theme of 'Britain', for single voice or duet and a range of accompanying instruments.
ne songe plus ŕ fuir - Earth - another heavenly day - negatives - codex I
Richard Barrett
Paul Whitty - seven pages / James Dillon - birl / Roger Redgate - Residua / Paul Dibley - INV III / Paul Newland 1-2 / Mike Vaughan - In Memoriam… (layer 6) / Sohrab Uduman - Breath across autumnal ground / Sam Hayden - scintilla
Jane Chapman, harpsichord
James Olsen - Chameleon Concerto / Christian Mason - In Time Entwined, In Space Enlaced / Larry Goves - Springtime / Claudia Molitor - untitled 40 [desk-life] / Kenneth Hesketh - Detail from the Record
London Sinfonietta - Oliver Knussen / David Porcelijn / Baldur Brönnimann / Clio Gould, violin / Rolf Hind, piano / Juliet Fraser, soprano
Ian Vine - ocre oscuro / Emily Hall - Think About Space / Anna Meredith - axeman / Anna Meredith - flak
London Sinfonietta - Richard Baker - Nicholas Kok - Ryan Wigglesworth / John Orford, bassoon "