Since you are interested in Machines & Dreams (Incls 'Hidden Variables'), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
SACKMAN / BURRELL / POOLE
Lucifer - New Music for Piano, Brass and Percussion Philip Mead (piano) / RNCM Brass Ensemble / James Gourlay [ NMC Classics / CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] "The performances, under James Gourlay's alert direction, are exemplary - the RNCM Brass Ensemble at the top of its game." BBC Music Magazine, 2005 |
MICHAEL TIPPETT
Remembering Tippett - Recordings from the 1940s (Incls: Fantasy Sonata for piano) Phyllis Sellick (piano) / Zorian Quartet / Morley College Choir / Michael Tippett, conductor / etc [ NMC / CD - released 1/May/2007 ] "The anthology of premiere recordings ... is truly historic. Walter Goehr's 1943 recording of the Double Concerto - co-produced by Benjamin Britten while Tippett was in prison as a conscientious objector - seems to use only a small number of players,... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten on Film Simon Russell Beale (narrator) & Mary Carewe (soprano) / Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus / Martyn Brabbins [ NMC / CD - released 1/May/2007 ] 'This generous 79-minute collection consists of the film music without the film, so if you've once seen some of the better known ones such as Night Mail or Coal Face your visual memory fills the gap. An excellent feature is the provision of Auden's... |
JONATHAN HARVEY
Bhakti (1982) for ensemble and electronic tape Spectrum [ NMC / CD - released 4/Jun/2005 ] An exploration of the Sanskrit Hymns of the Rig Veda for chamber ensemble and computer generated quadrophonic tape. |
BIRTWISTLE
Punch and Judy: A tragical comedy or a comical tragedy Stephen Roberts, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Jan DeGaetani, Philip Langridge, David Wilson- Johnson & John Tomlinson / London Sinfonietta / David Atherton [ NMC / 2 CD - released 15/May/2007 ] ‘As a whole the opera loses none of its powerful and sustained impact when compared with Birtwistle’s own more mature compositions. If anything, its startling primitivisms stand out more vividly, while its not inconsiderable moments of reflection and... |
JULIAN ANDERSON
Book Of Hours Various Artists [ NMC / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] "Even if these works receive more polished performances in future years, the present recordings are all special in the imagination and excitement they convey." (Gramophone Nov 2006) |