Edwin Roxburgh solos and duos Edwin Roxburgh (oboe) Lawrence Casserley (electronics) Dimitri Murrath, Hsin-Yun Huang (viola) Nicholas Reed (percussion) Sulki Yu (violin) Michael Cox (flute) Marie McLeod (cello) Nigel Clayton (piano) NMC D161 Edwin Roxburgh was born in Liverpool in 1937.   He won a double scholarship to the Royal College of Music where he studied composition with Herbert Howells, and oboe with Terence MacDonagh. Commissioners and performers of Roxburgh's music have ranged from Yehudi Menuhin and the BBC to Vincent Price and Prunella Scales. The diverse activities of performing, conducting and teaching have been constant motivations to Edwin Roxburgh's principal profession, composing.   The works on this new release are inspired by the virtuosic skill of the performers featured on this recording - many of them past students - and they are joined by the composer himself in his meditative and transcendent work for oboe and electronics, At the Still Point of the Turning World in which the sound of the oboe is fed through various delay effects.   This work was first performed in 1979 under the direction of electroacoustic pioneer, Barry Anderson who operated the analogue 'delay table' - which was initially designed for a performance of Stockhausen's Solo - with the help of twelve technicians. 1. Soliloquy 3     11'20     (Sulki Yu, violin) 2. Flute Music with an Accompaniment     9'10     (Michael Cox, flute; Nigel Clayton piano) 3. Soliloquy 2     11'54     (Dimitri Murrath, viola) 4. At the still point of the turning world…     15'14     (Edwin Roxburgh, oboe; Lawrence Casserley, electronics) 5. Soliloquy 4     13'26     (Marie McLeod, cello) 6. Aube: a ballet for dancer and percussion     9'18     (Nicholas Reed, percussion) 7. Duologue for David     6'03     (Hsin-Yun Huang & Dimitri Murrath, violas) NMC Recordings are distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading, P.O.Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone (03) 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile (03) 9444 6879