Metier

  • For Clarinet and Strings
    For Clarinet and Strings

    $19.99

    Ian Mitchell is a leading performer on all members of the clarinet family and has made recordings with most of them. He has also led Gemini for many years, bringing the ensemble to the top...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 05, 2021

  • Finnissy: Unknown Ground - Kritik der Urteilskraft - À propo
    Finnissy: Unknown Ground - Kritik der Urteilskraft - À propo

    $19.99

    The Metier label continues a very strong commitment to the music of Finnissy with this latest recording. “Unknown Ground” was written in ‘89/’90 and has received several performances since. “A propos de Nice” is a...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 30, 2013

  • Sackman, N.: Scorpio
    Sackman, N.: Scorpio

    $14.99

    NIcholas Sackman's music is not limited by particular stylistic lines but within the freedom of contemporary expression uses traditional qualities of harmony, pitch and rhythm to engage with the performer and listener. More simply, just...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 01, 2005

  • Harrison, S.: No Title Required
    Harrison, S.: No Title Required

    $14.99

    Fine chamber music by Priaulx Rainier and Sadie Harrison, played by some of the UK's top contemporary music performers. "The recording is immediate and yet spacious. The performances seem to be to be exemplary, often...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 01, 2002

  • Milan, Susan: Out of the Cool
    Milan, Susan: Out of the Cool

    $19.99

    A recital of works for flute and piano by British composers, this CD includes world premier recordings (the pieces by Saxton, Buteerworth and Lock) and introduces music that will undoubtedly enter the standard repertoire. An...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 01, 2009

  • Music by Harper and Cresswell
    Music by Harper and Cresswell

    $14.99

    Edward Harper was also the director of the New Music Group as well as being a fine composer, as is his contemporary Lyell Cresswell. Jane Manning is acknowledged as one of the world's leading singers...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 01, 1997

  • Voces Sacrae: Even Such is Time (Recent British Choral Music
    Voces Sacrae: Even Such is Time (Recent British Choral Music

    $14.99

    Wonderfully evocative British choral music written recently, from three fine but lesser-known composers and the better-known Michael Berkeley. For the Williamson Missa Tertia, the singers are joined by the Choir of St. Mary Magdalene, Oxford.


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 01, 2002

  • Lesser, Clare: Chanticlare (Contemporary Vocal Music)
    Lesser, Clare: Chanticlare (Contemporary Vocal Music)

    $14.99

    A most remarkable CD, demonstrating the real avant-garde in vocal music, requiring phenomenal levels of vocal virtuosity. The performance by Clare Lesser is awesome and an object lesson in how to interpret challenging material.


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 14, 2009

  • In Absentia
    In Absentia

    $19.99

    This album is important musically and culturally, presenting chamber works for strings by two leading Iranian composers. Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour specializes in music that reaches across time and place and is truly international, and he...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 17, 2019

  • Harrison, S.: Taking Flight
    Harrison, S.: Taking Flight

    $14.99

    Sadie Harrison's music is instantly recognizable from that of any other composer of her generation. She has a potent sense of instrumental color and a distinctive rhythmic vigor permeates all of her output. Here a...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 01, 2000

  • Quartet Choreography Soundtrack
    Quartet Choreography Soundtrack

    $14.99

    In 2012 Metier released its first DVD, titled ‘Quartet Choreography’ which was not only a rare visual release of modern string quartets, but also a study in how great chamber musicians communicate in subtle ways,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 20, 2017

  • Ed Hughes: Dark Formations
    Ed Hughes: Dark Formations

    $19.99

    With rhythms simultaneously complex and simple, the music of Ed Hughes has a sound all of it's own. This set features first recordings of many of Hughes' most prominent works, performed by the New Music...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 07, 2012

  • A Different Game
    A Different Game

    $19.99

    Rhona Clarke is one of the Irish composers living in a shadow - the perception that Irish music consists only of stepdancing, jigs and reels. Our ongoing series of Irish music albums should demonstrate that...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 17, 2017

  • TIDE
    TIDE

    $19.99

    This is a unique release from Metier, that consists of three solo works, for clarinet, cello and oboe, which combine to form one multilayered composite work for the trio (TIDE). James Weeks's music has been...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 25, 2013

  • Anthony Burgess: The Man and His Music
    Anthony Burgess: The Man and His Music

    $27.99

    This double album presents several works by Burgess, along with music for recorder and piano by 15 other composers. All of these works are world premiere recordings and include music by such eminent names as...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 24, 2013