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Trio Fibonacci - Independence Quadrilles

Trio Fibonacci - Independence Quadrilles
ID: NMCD107
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano

Trio Fibonacci's debut on NMC also sees the first appearance on the label of James Clarke, whose Piano Trio is joined by solo works for each of the three instruments. Michael Finnissy's Independence Quadrilles allows each line vertical independence from the others, while he has described In stiller Nacht as "an arrangement, or quite possible derangement" of Brahms' German folksong. The disc is completed with Gerald Barry's typically enigmatic In the Asylum.
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Christopher Fox - A Glimpse of Sion's Glory

Christopher Fox - A Glimpse of Sion's Glory
ID: NMCD114
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Ensemble

Exciting new vocal ensemble EXAUDI's second recording for NMC features choral works by Christopher Fox with the common theme of Puritanism, Liberty and dissent. American Choruses is one of the composer’s earliest works, exploring his relationship to an American tradition which includes Ives, Cage and the poetry of Walt Whitman. In A Glimpse of Sion’s Glory, conflicting lines voice the idealisms of protestors including the histoical Levellers' movement and John Milton; and the monolithic Missouri Harmony for solo organ evokes the meditative aspect of Shaker worship. Rendered Account, setting Ian Duhig’s lively political verse on the nature of walls and boundaries, and Open the Gate, with its basis of plainsong, complete the disc.
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Stephen Montague - Southern Lament

Stephen Montague - Southern Lament
ID: NMCD118
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Piano

This collection of Stephen Montague's music for piano explores his roots in the Southern USA - including spirituals such as Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen - and the legacy of American experimental composers such as Charles Ives and John Cage with wit and energy. Pianist Philip Mead (also heard on Lucifer) is joined by singer Monica Acosta, flautist Nancy Ruffer, the Elysian Quartet, the London Sousa Band, and the composer himself on electronics and piano.

This recording was made with funding from the Research Committee of the Faculty of the Arts at Thames Valley University.
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Saturn - Edwin Roxburgh

Saturn - Edwin Roxburgh
ID: NMCD119
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Clarinet

Roxburgh's Clarinet Concerto features soloist Linda Merrick in a work of symphonic scope and expressivity; she is acompanied by the Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer.

In Saturn - a tribute to Holst, Roxburgh's predecessor at the Royal College of Music - Roxburgh explores the mythical characters of its moons and satellites in a series of orchestral showpieces which culminates in the wild abandon, and percussive onslaught, of Saturn itself; Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra is conducted by Peter Stark.
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Night Music - Mark Simpson, clarinet

Night Music - Mark Simpson, clarinet
ID: NMCD225
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Ensemble

Leonard Elschenbroich, cello
Alexei Grynyuk, piano
Mercury Quartet
Richard Uttley, piano
Mark Simpson, clarinet
Ian Buckle, piano
Víkingur Ólafsson, piano
Nicholas Daniel, oboe
Guy Johnston, cello
Ensemble 10/10
Clark Rundell, conductor
Jonathan Small, oboe
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Edwin Roxburgh: Solos and Duos

Edwin Roxburgh: Solos and Duos
ID: NMCD161
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Viola

Edwin Roxburgh, Lawrence Casserly, Dimitri Murrath - Edwin Roxburgh: Solos and Duos
Edwin Roxburgh’s Solos and Duos are inspired by the virtuosic skill of the performers featured on this recording. They are joined by the composer himself with Lawrence Casserley in 'At the Still Point of the Turning World...'.
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Adam Gorb: Towards Nirvana

Adam Gorb: Towards Nirvana
ID: NMCD154
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble

Adam Gorb is best known for his award-winning music for symphonic wind ensemble, and this recording features Towards Nirvana - a reflection on the life and teachings of Buddha - as well as the exuberant Scenes from Bruegel, illuminating the painter's depictions of human folly. The recording is completed with Ascent - inspired by Cézanne’s almost Cubist paintings of Mont Sainte-Victoire - and Farewell.

All these works are recorded by the the Royal Northern College's acclaimed Wind Orchestra, conducted by Clark Rundell, Timothy Reynish and Mark Heron.


RNCM Wind Ensemble:
The Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra is recognised as one of the leading conservatoire ensembles in the world: through a unique series of concerts, commissions, broadcasts and professional recordings, the RNCM Wind Orchestra has transformed the repertoire and performance standards of wind ensemble music in the UK. The RNCM Wind Orchestra was the first conservatoire ensemble to be invited to perform at the BBC Proms, and has also performed at Festivals such as Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Huddersfield, Spitalfields, and the Three Choirs, as well as festivals in Holland, Japan, Switzerland and Poland. In 2000 the RNCM was awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education for its outstanding and pioneering work with the Wind Orchestra.
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Michael Zev Gordon - On Memory - Andrew Zolinsky (piano)

Michael Zev Gordon - On Memory - Andrew Zolinsky (piano)
ID: NMCD144
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano

Michael Zev Gordon is Senior Lecturer in Composition at the University of Southampton and Professor of Composition at the Royal College of Music.
Gordon studied composition in the UK with Robin Holloway, Oliver Knussen and John Woolrich, in Italy with Franco Donatoni and in the Netherlands with Louis Andriessen.
Awards include a 2004 Prix Italia for A Pebble in the Pond, an extended radiophonic work on the subject of memory; and winner of the choral category of the 2008 British Composer Awards, for This Night, written for the choir of King’s College, Cambridge.
Andrew Zolinsky won the San Francisco International Piano Concerto Competition in 1998.
The works on this disc span nearly twenty years of Michael Zev Gordon’s output and demonstrate the development and change in his style from the atonal soundworld of Touch to the more recent harmonic, lyrical qualities of On Memory, a series of miniatures inspired by the way our brain conjures up hazy memories. Gordon uses a Couperin keyboard piece, a Bach Sarabande and a fragment from a Klezmer dance as starting points, which provide a brief moment of recognition before tailing off into blurry soundworlds.
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From Morning To Midnight

From Morning To Midnight
ID: NMCD116
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Violin

The first full-length disc from highly-acclaimed young composer David Sawer, featuring scintillating orchestral score the greatest happiness principle, ensemble works Tiroirs and The Memory of Water, and a specially-arranged orchestral suite taken from Sawer’s opera From Morning to Midnight, heard here for the first time. The disc features the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conducted by Martyn Brabbins and Susanna Malkki.
6 - Alexandra Wood, Simon Blendis, solo violins
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Stuart Mac Rae - Violin Concerto

Stuart Mac Rae - Violin Concerto
ID: NMCD115
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Violin

Stuart MacRae's Violin Concerto, commissioned for the 2001 BBC Proms, is performed here by soloist Christian Tetzlaff with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under its chief conductor Ilan Volkov; it is coupled with Stirling Choruses, written for the brass section of the BBC SSO, which portrays the “dark and foreboding” Stirling Castle.

These are works are joined by Motus, a processional for 6 instruments; and Two Scenes from the Death of Count Ugolino, for voice and instrumental ensemble - based on a gruesome section of Dante’s Inferno, and featuring mezzo-soprano Loré Lixenberg.

1-4 - Christian Tetzlaff violin/ BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/ Ilan Volkov conductor
5-6 - Loré Lixenberg mezzo-soprano/ BCMG/ Susanna Mälkki conductor
7 - BCMG/ Susanna Mälkki conductor
8 - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/ Ilan Volkov conductor
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