NMC
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These works from the last four years are played by their dedicatees, who completely inhabit the music, technically and musically. —
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Letting the Light In
Siwan Rhys (piano), Sonya Allori (clarinet and electronic wind instrument), Jo-anne Cox (cello), Elinor Rowlands (narrator)
Whether it’s the sparse unison melodies in Elinor Rowlands’s Secrets in the Centrefold – a song that mixes spoken words with singing about a town in Norway wiped out by an earthquake – or the... —
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Joe Cutler - Bartlebooth
Robin Michael (cello), Sarah Leonard (soprano), Andrew Sparling (clarinet) & Stephen Gutman (piano)
Fidelio Trio, Ensemble de Ereprijs & BBC Concert Orchestra, Charles Hazlewood
This is an essential purchase: Cutler may not make contemporary music loveable again, but he does make it unignorable and that is what really matters. —
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Simon Emmerson: Sound Around - both near and far at once
Philip Mead (piano), Simon Emmerson, Electroacoustic Sound, Carla Rees, Zubin Kanga, Heather Roche (clarinet)
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Black Lanterns and Nigredo are also single-movement works, both expanding from small beginnings into areas of virtuosity which are effortlessly negotiated by Rolf Hind. He brings a richness... —
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Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian: Welcome Party
Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian, Ziazan, Trish Clowes, Tim Giles, Members of the LSO, Jon Hargreaves
Inspired by the composer’s time in residence at LSO Soundhub, this collection of works is wide-ranging, dynamic and utterly unique. The album encompasses acoustic and electronic textures, eastern... —
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