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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,...

William Mathias as one of the greatest of British 20th century composers. This pioneering recording of his three magnificent quartets was one of Metier's earliest and most popular releases. Out of...

John McLeod is a hero amongst Scottish musicians, not only for his prowess as one of the most inspired, if not among the most prolific, composers of today, but also for his work as a concert pianist,...

Detours is inspired by the composer's personal memories and reflections concerning cars. It draws on sources and references of a distinctly non-classical nature, but cannot in any way be called...

Miyachi / Miyachi / Martin Transitional Metal CD1. Co27 (Cobalt) - Fumiko Miyachi/Kate Halsall 2. Mine Eye and Heart Are at Mortal War - Various Performers 3. Betwixt Mine Eye and Heart a League Is...

Great Women' was commissioned by the Great Music in Irish Houses Festival to mark it's 50th anniversary in 2020 with funds from the Arts Council of Ireland / An Comhairle Eala?on, which also gave...

The 1960s were a period of revolution in classical vocal composition, a time of re-inventing and re-creating the classical voice's sound world that inspired the generation of composers featured on...

Dorone Paris is a composer and saxophone player specializing in New Music and Avant Garde performance. Being raised in Israel influenced her political ideas and affected her musical creativity,...

Raftery / Heath Quartet / Animare Ensemble Kevin Raftery: Chamber Music CD

Kevin Raftery was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1951 and studied composition with Peter Racine Fricker at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1989 he moved to London where he studied...

Blue Sounds is a set of meditations on a color - from it's abstractness as an electromagnetic wave to Blues as a scale, a genre and a harmonic structure. All three works were written for Tom Hicks...

Sam Cave writes in the album notes: "For every note the guitar can play there are an infinite number of tone colors waiting to be coaxed from it's body." This is demonstrated very well in this...