Geoffrey Poole: Crossing Ohashi Bridge Roger Marsh: Canto 1 Nicola LeFanu: Amores - five songs without words Anthony Gilbert: Palace of the Winds Richard Watkins, horn Goldberg Ensemble Malcolm Layfield, conductor NMC D174 Richard Watkins is at the forefront of promoting contemporary music for the horn.   He has given premières of concertos by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Nigel Osborne, Magnus Lindberg, Dominic Muldowney, Nicola LeFanu, and Colin and David Matthews. The Goldberg Ensemble is committed to performing and commissioning new music, particularly by British composers. This new recording features a collection of works for string ensemble commissioned by the Goldberg Ensemble including Roger Marsh's haunting Canto 1, based on Dante's Paradiso; Nicola Lefanu's lyrical Amores for horn and string ensemble; Anthony Gilbert's Palace of the Winds inspired by the elaborately ornate Hawa Mahal palace in Jaipur and Geoffrey Poole's Crossing Ohashi Bridge, an abstract work inspired by chaos mathematics such as Fractals, Mandelbrot sets, and named after the Hiroshige painting Sudden shower over Shin-Ôhashi bridge, as featured on the front cover of this disc. TRACK LISTING 01. Geoffrey Poole: Crossing Ohashi Bridge       19:08 02. Roger Marsh: Canto 1       14:02       Nicola LeFanu: Amores - five songs without words for horn and string ensemble       25:01 03. Very serene 04. Presto 05. Sonorous 06. Cadenza, quick 07. Spacious 08. Anthony Gilbert: Palace of the Winds       16:57 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