Larry Goves: Just stuff people do Oliver Coates, cello Sarah Nicolls, piano London Sinfonietta / André de Ridder, conductor Martyn Brabbins, conductor NMC D198 • Celebrating 25 years of NMC Recordings. Discover — Connect — Challenge — Inspire • Debut Discs is a 4-year series in collaboration with BA (Hons) Graphic Design students at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design who have designed the cover artwork for the series. • Debut Discs has the ambassadorial support of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. • 5 releases in the series feature the composers Huw Watkins, Dai Fujikura, Sam Hayden, Richard Causton and Joseph Phibbs and still to come this year are Helen Grime, Charlotte Bray and Ben Foskett. Larry Goves is a composer based in the UK.   He performs live electronics in a variety of contexts in particular with his experimental group the house of bedlam. Larry Goves studied at the Royal Northern College of Music with Anthony Gilbert and at Southampton University with Michael Finnissy.   In 2011 he was shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic Prize in composition and was a recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award.   He currently teaches composition at the Royal Northern College of Music and for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Goves explains that Things that are blue, things that are white and things that are black is “my notion of a romantic piano concerto seen through the twisted lens of Paul Auster's surreal gumshoe landscape ('The New York Trilogy').”   Written for Sarah Nicolls it is scored for solo piano, electric piano (triggering pre-prepared samples), prepared piano, at least 16 violins, various wind instruments, electronic sounds and live processing.   Terminus Wreck is a solo cello piece written for Goves's long-time collaborator Oliver Coates and Trends in personal relationships, performed by London Sinfonietta under Martyn Brabbins, is a response to modern life, relationships and internet dating.       Trends in personal relationships     18'46   1. Threesome     4'16   2. Benign violations     7'37   3. Falling in love and the Internet     1'25   4. Trends in personal relationships     2'30   5. Exhausted English landscapes     2'58       London Sinfonietta • Martyn Brabbins conductor       the terminus wreck     15'10   6. the cedar-limbs     4'37   7. the vermilion border     6'11   8. the terminus wreck     4'22       Oliver Coates, cello Things that are blue, things that are white and things that are black.     30'06   9. Things that are blue…     10'08 10. Things that are white…       9'03 11. Things that are black…       10'55       Sarah Nicolls, piano • Sound Intermedia, electronics       London Sinfonietta • André de Ridder, conductor       Total timing     64'20 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