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  • Eric Craven: Pieces For Pianists, Vol. 1 / Mary Dullea
    Eric Craven: Pieces For Pianists, Vol. 1 / Mary Dullea

    $19.99

    For most of his life Eric Craven has kept a very low profile, concentrating on his teaching career and quietly developing his ‘non-prescriptive’ composing method, a sort of aleatory style but which allows the performer...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 12, 2021

  • Craven: Pieces for Pianists, Vol. 2 / Dullea
    Craven: Pieces for Pianists, Vol. 2 / Dullea

    $20.99

    For most of his life Eric Craven has kept a very low profile, concentrating on his teaching career and quietly developing his 'non-prescriptive' composing method, a sort of aleatory style that allows the performer varying...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 08, 2021

  • Cowie: Bird Portraits / Chadwick, Skærved
    Cowie: Bird Portraits / Chadwick, Skærved

    $20.99

    Edward Cowie is one of the most individual and notable voices in contemporary music and considered by many to be the greatest living composer directly inspired by the natural world. He has worked for over...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 12, 2021

  • White: Woad / Poukens, Vanderheiden
    White: Woad / Poukens, Vanderheiden

    $20.99

    This unique and intriguing work is one of four ‘fashion/operas’ by Scottish composer Alastair White (b.1988) and this audio version follows the release in February 2021 of the opera ROBE which has attracted much praise....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 10, 2021

  • White: Robe / Sarah Parkin, Jenni Hogan, Ben Smith
    White: Robe / Sarah Parkin, Jenni Hogan, Ben Smith

    $19.99

    This recording of Alastair White’s ‘fashion opera’ ROBE features the original cast from the premiere performance as part of Tête-a-Tête, London in 2019. The unique concept employs only four female singers with flute and piano,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 12, 2021

  • Troubled Waters / Ebonit Saxophone Quartet
    Troubled Waters / Ebonit Saxophone Quartet

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    Works by two composers working at the University of Manchester in England: one American (Kevin Malone) and one British (Richard Whalley). These new works are all based on folk music: spirituals, protest songs, work ballads....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 13, 2020

  • Vale / Craig
    Vale / Craig

    $19.99

    The flute is one of the instruments closest to the audible human breath and is caught in the process of continually becoming something other than a metal cylinder. Listening to Richard Craig's playing, one becomes...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 21, 2017

  • The Dream Bridge: Songs by Ives & Cowell / Kerrigan, Valdivia
    The Dream Bridge: Songs by Ives & Cowell / Kerrigan, Valdivia

    $19.99

    Charles Ives and Henry Cowell are two of the greatest figures in the history of early American experimental music. Ives has enjoyed far greater recognition in the vocal repertoire than Cowell, largely due to the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 15, 2019

  • Sonic Fictions / Fineberg
    Sonic Fictions / Fineberg

    $19.99

    American composer Joshua Fineberg has long been a leading light in the younger generation of composers of spectral music, following the Messiaen-Murail school; more recently he has turned to a different aspect of composition which...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 20, 2018

  • Skempton:The Man Hurdy-Gurdy & Me / Sirinu
    Skempton:The Man Hurdy-Gurdy & Me / Sirinu

    $19.99

    Howard Skempton has established over the last 50 years a reputation as one of the UK’s most accomplished and internationally-acclaimed composers, with a style which is based on traditional tonality and lyricism; but he also...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 13, 2020

  • Schumann & Murail: Une rencontre / Ythier, Bricault, Vermeulin
    Schumann & Murail: Une rencontre / Ythier, Bricault, Vermeulin

    $19.99

    Composer Tristan Murail is without doubt one of the most significant figures in European contemporary music circles, known best perhaps for his being a close follower of Messiaen (his teacher was Jeanne Loriod) and one...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 21, 2019

  • Sam Hayden: Becomings - Solo Piano Music / Ian Pace
    Sam Hayden: Becomings - Solo Piano Music / Ian Pace

    $19.99

    This album features the first ever recordings of Sam Hayden’s complete music for solo piano, performed by contemporary music specialist and indefatigable champion of new music, Ian Pace, a pianist with a formidable reputation for...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 12, 2021

  • Rodgers: The Roaring Whirl / Allen, Walker, Shrivastav, Patel
    Rodgers: The Roaring Whirl / Allen, Walker, Shrivastav, Patel

    $19.99

    The Roaring Whirl is a musical journey across the North Indian Punjab – the setting for Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Kim’. The work was originally commissioned by clarinetist Geraldine Allen as a piece to take on tour,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 20, 2019

  • Raftery: Chamber Works / Berkeley Ensemble, Heath Quartet
    Raftery: Chamber Works / Berkeley Ensemble, Heath Quartet

    $19.99

    Kevin Raftery is an American composer who has been working in the UK since 1989, and also plays bassoon, sings contemporary vocal music, and works as a Project Manager. His work is thoroughly modern, without...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 19, 2017

  • Geoffrey Allen: Music For Woodwinds / Wickham, Meyer, Waye, Walpole
    Geoffrey Allen: Music For Woodwinds / Wickham, Meyer, Waye, Walpole

    $19.99

    Geoffrey Allen was born in the UK in 1927 and after studying at Oxford moved to Australia where he set up a music publishing imprint and facilitated recordings of Australian music. He is still very...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 11, 2020