New Music Collections - Volume 4 PIANO Various Artists NMC D207 • Celebrating 25 years of NMC Recordings. Discover — Connect — Challenge — Inspire NMC explores the rich offerings of its back catalogue in a new mid-price series called New Music Collections. (See what we did there?) Each album introduces different areas of contemporary classical music, with the first four volumes focusing on music written for choir, orchestra, piano and electronics. These releases, featuring works from emerging and more established composers and performed by world-class ensembles and artists, are a great introduction to New Music from the British Isles from the last 80 or so years.   1. Huw Watkins Four Spencer Pieces: Shipbuilding on the Clyde     1'49        Huw Watkins piano   2. Simon Holt Black Lanterns     8'10        Rolf Hind piano   3. Julian Anderson Somewhere near Cluj     1'35        Thalia Myers piano   4. Sadie Harrison Impresa Amorosa: Labyrinth     3'27        Nicky Losseff piano   5. Michael Zev Gordon On Memory: a tango there was     4'19        Andrew Zolinsky piano   6. Diana Burrell The Little Bear     1'52        Thalia Myers piano   7. Jonathan Harvey Haiku     0'30        Thalia Myers piano   8. Anthony Payne Paean: Toccata     4'24        Susan Bradshaw piano   9. Richard Rodney Bennett Taking a line for a walk     1'15        Thalia Myers piano 10. Richard Barrett Tract II: the light gleams     4'10        Ian Pace piano 11. John White Piano Sonata No.76     2'18        Roger Smalley piano 12. Morgan Hayes Three Distressed Surfaces: Flaking yellow stucco     3'05        Jonathan Powell piano 13. Gerald Barry Triorchic Blues     3'18        Noriko Kawai piano 14. Tansy Davies Loopholes & Lynchpins: Loophole 1     2'24        Huw Watkins piano 15. Benjamin Britten Variations for Piano: VI - Quick     0'46        Rolf Hind piano 16. James Dillon The Book of Elements, Volume III: 5     4'51        Noriko Kawai piano 17. Judith Weir Michael's Strathspey     1'18        Michael Finnissy piano 18. Stephen Montague Headless Horseman     1'58        Philip Mead & Stephen Montague piano 19. Peter Maxwell Davies Bist du bei mir, oder…?     1'43        Melvyn Tan piano 20. Michael Tippett Fantasy Sonata: Presto     4'37        Phyllis Sellick piano 21. Eleanor Alberga If the silver bird could speak     3'00        Thalia Myers piano 22. Michael Finnissy Freighttrain Bruise     2'51        Michael Finnissy piano 23. Oliver Knussen Ophelia's Last Dance     9'20        Huw Watkins piano 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