Since you are interested in Birtwistle: Secret Theatre / Silbury Air / Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
Humble Pie
Running With The Pack [ Pilot Records / CD - released 23/Nov/1999 ] American imported disc. |
ROGER SMALLEY
Pulses for brass, percussion and electronics BBC Symphony Orchestra / Richard Bernas [ NMC / CD - released 4/Jun/2005 ] "Pulses is still fresh and impressive 25 years on, its sound growing inexorably like cumulus clouds... The performers... do the piece full justice, prompting a query as to why it has not been played more often." The Wire 1994 |
ROGER SMALLEY
Poles Apart and other chamber works Continuum Ensemble / Douglas Finch (piano) [ NMC / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "This collection of chamber pieces shows that Smalley has certainly made his peace with the great tradition that he and so many of his contemporaries rejected in their youth" The Guardian 2004 |
RICHARD BARRETT
Transmission Elision Ensemble [ NMC / CD - released 1/Jan/2006 ] Richard Barrett's "transmission" features solo works written for members of leading contemporary ensemble ELISION, plus a duo featuring the composer on live electronics together with ELISION's pioneering director and guitarist Daryl Buckley. This... |
CHRIS DENCH
Ik(S)Land[S] Elision, With Various Soloists [ NMC / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "Chris Dench and his compatriots have evidently been enjoying a richly productive relationship, documented here in three pieces..intricate highly complex scores that seemed to be carrying on the tradition that composers such as Ferneyhough had... |
HUGH WOOD
Wood: Symphony & Scenes From Comus Geraldine McGreevy (soprano) / Daniel Norman (tenor) / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sir Andrew Davis (conductor) [ NMC / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] "One of the outstanding British symphonies of the last century." BBC Music Magazine 2002Gramophone Awards nomination 2002 |
JAMES DILLON
The Soadie Waste / Dillug-Kefitsah / Traumwerk Book III Irvine Arditti (violin), Arditti Quartet, Noriko Kawai (piano) [ NMC / CD - released 1/Mar/2008 ] "... a kaleidoscopic, highly energised piece, magnificently played by pianist Noriko Kawai and those indefatigable navigators of the thorniest of modernist thickets, the Arditti Quartet" - The Scotsman |