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  • Marcus Blunt: Orchestral Works
    Marcus Blunt: Orchestral Works

    $19.99

    Marcus Blunt, who turns 70 years old this year, is a well established British composer with an international voice – his harmonic language is distinctive and varied; arising from the Romantic tradition but full of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 19, 2018

  • Finnissy, M.: This Church
    Finnissy, M.: This Church

    $14.99

    Michael Finnissy is among the leading composers of our generation, and this CD forms part of the Metier Finnissy cycle, still ongoing. Finnissy wrote "This Church" in 2001-3 to celebrate the 900th anniversary of St....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 01, 2003

  • Observations
    Observations

    $19.99

    David Dubery (b. 1948) has enjoyed a busy career as solo pianist, accompanist, composer, vocal coach, musical director and teacher of piano and voice. + His compositions are approachable, lyrical and generally tonal style; like...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 08, 2014

  • Norman, K.: Transparent things
    Norman, K.: Transparent things

    $14.99

    Music for piano, tape and electronics by Katharine Norman. The composer believes that the solo piano and the digital soundscape share an ability to convey an unflinching intensity, an intimacy that draws the listener "inside"...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 01, 2000

  • Lissenden, S.: The Nursery
    Lissenden, S.: The Nursery

    $14.99

    In the days when serious composers wrote good music for children to play, sing or just to appreciate, many minor classics were penned. Mussorgsky's "The Nursery" is such and the British songs here, settings of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 01, 2000

  • Natural Science
    Natural Science

    $19.99

    These works demonstrate yet another peak in the creativity of Christopher Fox; disarmingly simple, they demonstrate his uncanny ability to create music from the most unlikely inspirations such as the superb poetry of Ian Duhig;...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 01, 2012

  • New Music for a New Oboe, Vol. 2
    New Music for a New Oboe, Vol. 2

    $19.99

    Christopher Redgate is undoubtedly one of the world's finest exponents of the most advanced avant-garde music for the oboe. This sequel to 'New Music for a New Oboe' again features two new instruments developed by...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 20, 2018

  • White Dawn: Songs and Soundscapes by David Lumsdaine
    White Dawn: Songs and Soundscapes by David Lumsdaine

    $27.99

    David Lumsdaine's work is mostly rooted in Australia where he was born though he now lives in the UK. This unique and intriguing set includes pieces for a variety of instruments (not all are vocal)...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 15, 2010

  • Grange, P.: Darkness Visible
    Grange, P.: Darkness Visible

    $14.99

    Composer Philip Grange wrote the music on this CD for the combination of flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and cello, the line-up of Peter Maxwell Davies' group the Fires of London, which commissioned Cimmerian Nocturne...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 01, 2005

  • SYMPHONIC VISIONS
    SYMPHONIC VISIONS

    $26.99

    This film presents the marvellous music by Ed Hughes for silent films (both new and old). His scores for the early classics for chamber ensemble (Alice in Wonderland and Voyage to the Moon) and piano...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: February 16, 2018

  • Webb, Barrie: The Japan Project
    Webb, Barrie: The Japan Project

    $14.99

    Perhaps the ultimate in Metier's search for unusual repertoire, this CD of solo trombone music from contemporary Japanese composers is truly the ideal purchase for the record collector who has it all and indeed for...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 01, 1998

  • Miniaturised Concertos & Maché
    Miniaturised Concertos & Maché

    $27.99

    This new release is the conclusion of a project exploring ways of transforming and developing the piano concerto. Pianist Kate Halsall developed these works centered around two pianos with varied electro-acoustical and chamber accompaniment. The...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 13, 2016

  • Powers, A.: Fast Colours
    Powers, A.: Fast Colours

    $14.99

    Powers is a composer who knows his own language; a pupil of the legendary Nadia Boulanger, his works have been consistently praised. He is a composer with something to say. This CD presents five major...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 01, 2000

  • Harper, E.: Fanny Robin
    Harper, E.: Fanny Robin

    $14.99

    A lovely little one-act opera based on scenes from Thomas Hardy novels, the title role was written for Jane Manning who sings here. Musically it is a companion piece to Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 01, 1998

  • Whitty, P.: 39 Pages
    Whitty, P.: 39 Pages

    $19.99

    Paul Whitty works with both amplified and electronic music with ensemble and with acoustic instruments. Recently he has been engaged in a series of interventions in pre-existing scores - undertaking an almost archaeological examination of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 01, 2009