NMC Recordings featuring the works of Benjamin BRITTEN   ~   John BULLER   ~   Francis BURT   ~   Martin BUTLER Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976)_________________NMC D190 Britten to America Music for radio and theatre The Ascent of F6 • On the Frontier • Roman Wall Blues Samuel West, narrator • Andrew Kennedy, tenor • Jean Rigby, mezzo soprano • Mary Carewe, mezzo soprano • Ex Cathedra • Jeffrey Skidmore • Huw Watkins, piano • Hallé • Sir Mark Elder, conductor • Harry Ogg, assistant conductor More Information Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976)_________________NMC D140 Unknown Britten Movements for a Clarinet Concerto • Rondo Concertanta • In Memorium Dennis Brain • 3 Additional Songs for Les Illuminations • Variations • Untitled Fragment Sanseine Piau, soprano • Michael Collins, clarinet • Rolf Hind, piano • Northern Sinfonia • Thomas Zehetmair, conductor More Information Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976)_________________NMC D112 Britten on Film       ARCHIVE Coal Face • Men Behind the Meters • Negroes • Night Mail • Peace of Britain • Telegrams • The King's Stamp • The Tocher (Rossini Suite) • The Way to the Sea • When you're feeling like expressing your affection BCMG • Simon Russell Beale, narrator • Mary Carewe, soprano • City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus • Choir of King Edward's School • Martyn Brabbins, conductor 'A fabulous and very important record' International Record Review 'This is a wonderful release… of immense importance to the musical world' The Birmingham Post More Information Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976)________________NMC D030 Les Illuminations: recordings from 1941       ARCHIVE Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo • Les Illuminations • Sinfonia da Requiem Peter Pears, tenor • CBS Symphony Orchestra • New York Philharmonic Orchestra • John Barbirolli, conductor • Benjamin Britten, conductor/piano 'These are historical documents of importance… Technically wonders have been done to what appear to be intractable originals. All Britten and Pears specialists will want the issue to which Colin Matthews contributes authoritative annotations' Gramophone John BULLER (1927-2004)____________________NMC D081 Proença       ANCORA The Theatre of Memory • Proença Sarah Walker, mezzo-soprano • BBC Symphony Orchestra • Mark Elder, conductor 'Buller combines ferocious, sonorous immediacy with complex intellectual subtexts… there is a psychedelic glitter to the score of Proença' The Sunday Times Francis BURT (b. 1926)______________________NMC D063M Und GOtt der HErr sprach Soloists • Antifonia Choir • United Philharmonic Vienna • Richard Edlinger, conductor 'Its very intensity has a certain hypnotic quality, and there is no doubting the extraordinary power of Burt's writing. This power is fully exploited in this vivid live recording' Gramophone The music has real integrity, and in its climactic moments a fierce dramatic power' BBC Music Magazine Martin BUTLER (b. 1960)____________________NMC D120 American Rounds Funerailles • Nathaniel's Mobile • Sequenza Notturna • Siward's River Song • Suzanne's River Song • Two Scarlatti Sonatas • Walden Snow • American Rounds William Howard, piano • The Schubert Ensemble 'Beautifully played recital of works written for the Schubert Ensemble' Independent The performances are as sensitive and assured as one would expect from the Schubert Ensemble, continuing their laudable contribution to British new music, and the sound is a model of chamber balance' Gramophone Martin BUTLER (b. 1960)___________________NMC D047M O Rio Fixed Doubles • 0 Rio BBC Symphony Orchestra • Martyn Brabbins, Arturo Tamayo, conductors 'Powerful, rhythmic, consistently involving pieces with an individual sound' Classic CD 'Martin Butler is a composer of considerable virtuosity. These two big scores are bursting with brilliant life' The Sunday Times Martin BUTLER (b. 1960)____________________NMC D212 Dirty Beasts Dirty Beasts • Down Hollow Winds • Lovesongs Waltzes • Rumba Machine • Fall • Preludes Inégales • Rondes d'Automne Martin Butler’s substantial nonet Rondes d'Automne was premiered at the Cheltenham Music Festival by the New London Chamber Ensemble in 2011 and was shortlisted for an RPS Award. More Information 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