Since you are interested in MIXED - Sonic Arts Network Collection 2, 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 |
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 |
DONNACHA DENNEHY
Elastic Harmonic / Glamour Sleeper / Junk Box Fraud, and other works Joanna McGregor (piano) / Crash Ensemble / Gavin Maloney [ NMC / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "Dennehy likes to imbue his pieces with an urban energy and drive them with the punchy impact of a rock band. He also likes and air of derangement, as if to suggest both a breaching of conventional boundaries and Jean Tinguely-like disintegration." |
FERNEYHOUGH
Shadowtime - a thought-opera Mats Scheidegger (guitar) / Nicholas Hodges (piano & speaker) / Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart / Nieuw Ensemble / Jurjen Hempel (conductor) [ NMC / 2 CD - released 14/May/2006 ] "Wonderful sounds,musical moves that tell, technical exigence turned to eloquence: I listened spellbound." Andrew Porter, Times Literary Supplement |
WEIR / FINNISSY / NEWMAN / SKEMPTON
Plays Michael Finnissy (piano) [ NMC / CD - released 4/Jun/2005 ] "Michael Finnissy's recital of short pieces by himself and friends... is a particular treat."The Sunday Times 1993 |
JAMES DILLON
East 11th Street Music Projects London / Richard Bernas, conductor [ NMC / CD - released 4/Jun/2005 ] Gramophone Award nomination - Best Contemporary Recording 1993 |